By John McCarthy

The meal-in-a-pill has been a staple of science fiction for much of the past century, promising to rid us of the hassle of eating and cooking and cleaning up dirty dishes afterwards.

And then of course there was the 60s Space Age trend toward powdered foods, from the thirsty astronaut’s favorite, Tang, to Martian-endorsed potatoes in a box.

But while pill-popping power-ups and predictions of a powdered promised land have never quite materialized, you need only look at the sad stale sandwiches that haunt our working weeks for proof that convenience is still a major consideration for many.

And so, since 2014 the Read full story ›

Source: The Drum