Making things smaller and more efficient has, at least since the Industrial Revolution, been a staple of American futurist thinking. A women’s dinner event in 1944 included “The Year 2000” as its theme and even the cigarettes were “concentrated.” From the January 26, 1944 Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, MO):
The group was served food suggestive of the theme and included tutti-fruitti pills; a pill of golden brown for the meat course; the dessert course was a miniature chocolate pellet and concentrated cigarettes. At the close of this banquet, food of 1944, including sandwiches and coffee, was served.
Read More:
Whole Meal in Pill (1923)
A Glimpse Into 2056 (1956)
Just Imagine (1930)
That Synthetic Food of the Future (Ogden Standard-Examiner, 1926)
Food of the Future (Indiana Progress, 1896)
