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I'm Sorry Dave
- Intent: What if 'efficiency' was a food? Behold, the answer.
- Image Source: Food Dispenser by Bartol Rendulić
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- Primary Source: Nutrient Paste
- Manufacturer: The Globex Corporation | The Cozmic Company
- Affiliation: The Globex Corporation | The Cozmic Company
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model: Nutrimax Dispenser
- Modularity: Significant; ranges from the size of a microwave to large pylons designed to service hundreds in short order.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Hexaplast | Locally abundant foodstuffs, typically plants or insects.
- Nutrimax Dispenser can synthesise its product from raw foodstuffs through a 'Nutrient Reclamation and Processing System', abbreviated to NRPS, though most consumer models rely on 'nutrient packets' available from various retailers. These packets are cheap enough to save a household as much as 80% of its weekly spending on foodstuffs, as well as eliminate the time required to cook.
- Nutrimax Dispensers can be linked to dietary monitoring devices, ensuring that a client receives exactly what their body needs. Models meant for institutions, not private consumers, may be locked to nutritional needs, think 'Cease consumption, your needs are met.'
- Nutrimax Dispensers can do wonders with taste, but consistency is another matter entirely; all manner of gruels, pastes, and soups are within the realm of possibility, but solids are more difficult. Most models cannot produce any solids beyond blocks of dense nutrients - while certainly rather unappetising, these blocks do make for cheap and easy survival rations for those looking to cut corners.
- As a rule of thumb, most Nutrimax Dispensers cannot produce foods too tough to be eaten normally with spoons alone. While this may seem like a detriment, knives and forks are now redundant, cutting down on cutlery expenses. What remarkable efficiency!
- Dietary Excellence: Nutrimax Dispensers produce a consistent, inoffensive paste able to meet virtually any dietary requirement, avoid any allergic reactions, and adapt to diverse preference profiles on the fly. Healthy 'chocolate' 'ice cream' for dinner? You got it.
- Cheaper Than Dirt: Nutrimax's raw materials are cheaper than 'quality food' and can be easily stored/transported.
- Poor Reputation: It's nutrient paste. No one expects nutrient paste to be at all appetising.
As far as foodstuffs are concerned, Nutrimax and the dispensers after which it is named has an unusual origin - the culmination of two separate yet surprisingly compatible projects. On one end, Globex's disaster relief teams had long requested better methods to alleviate starvation using locally available resources and on the other, the Cozmic Company's 'flavour engineers' were eagerly looking to expand to new markets.
A blend of Globex's industrial efficiency and Cozmic's fondness for thoroughly synthetic foodstuffs, Nutrimax is cheap, versatile, and arguably pretty damn tasty. Some specialised models are even able to produce faux ice cream most consumers cannot tell apart from the real deal!
On the other hand, the cheapest models (favoured by miserly prisons) produce little more than tasteless greyish sludge.
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