HALP I HAVE FOOD HEADCANONS
Yeah, while everyone else is arguing over Nice Guyism since the new episode of Motorcity aired I have been stuck on those weird cubes that those random Detroit Deluxe citizens were eating. And now I have headcanons about food.
Also I wrote a ficlet.
“What’s all this Jacob?” Mike asked. He’d been living with Jacob for roughly two days when he entered Jacob’s greenhouse.
“This place is my garden.” Jacob said. He doubted Mike had ever seen a garden in his life. “It’s a place where people grow plants.”
“But I thought the soil was too polluted for plants to successfully grow. It’s why we have Nutrition Cubes.” Mike stated.
Jacob sighed. When he was a boy his grandma had grown everything from flowers to tomatoes in her yard. She’d slice them up and feed them to him on hot summer days.
As Jacob aged into adulthood the great Soil Crisis began. Commercial farming was beginning to take its toil coupled with over population and the pollution caused by it was making it near impossible to grow anything. Despite being an expert in robotics Jacob had wanted to do something to save agriculture. He couldn’t fathom a world where no one had ever seen a home grown fruit or vegetable. Hell it was going to make raising cattle or chickens impossible as well and Jacob didn’t even like meat!
However someone else had beaten him to the punch. Nutrition Cubes were introduced as a substitute to real food. All the nutrition the body needed in an easy to eat soft squishy cube! No prep or cooking required! The ads for this new wonder food failed to mention that these cubes were flavorless blobs, but eventually that was pushed as a positive thing as well. It encouraged people to eat less so obesity would be less of a problem.
Jacob couldn’t take it. He joined the Gardener’s revolution even back in the good days of Kane Co. They were mostly geezers like him who put their blood, swear, and tears into cultivating healthy soil to grow food. He of course continued to garden even when he decided to start a revolution against Kane Co. which was mostly just him. It hadn’t been going well.
“Maybe you should try this stuff. I think you’ll like it.” Jacob offered Mike a strawberry. It wasn’t quite ripe yet, but it wouldn’t taste too bad.
Mike eyed it suspiciously. “You’re sure I can eat this?”
Jacob stuffed it into his mouth and picked another one for Mike. Yep. Not too bad.
With hesitation that Jacob would rarely see in Mike Chilton in the future Mike bit into the little red fruit. His eyes widened as his mind buzzed with activity.
“Well?” Jacob asked.
Mike wasn’t sure what was going on in his mouth. “It’s…weird.”
“You mean it has flavor?”
The teen ate the rest of the fruit and savored it for a moment. Was this what taste was like? He mostly relied on the texture of a Nutrition Cube to determine whether he liked it or not. “Do you have anything else I can eat?”
Jacob smiled at him. Mike’s enthusiasm could’ve just been he hadn’t eaten anything since he got trapped in Motorcity, but Jacob wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to share the wonders of gardening with him. “I think the cucumbers are ready by now. Though I’ve been working on this apple tree for a while now…”
Mike learned a lot of things about plants that day.
Also I wrote a ficlet.
“What’s all this Jacob?” Mike asked. He’d been living with Jacob for roughly two days when he entered Jacob’s greenhouse.
“This place is my garden.” Jacob said. He doubted Mike had ever seen a garden in his life. “It’s a place where people grow plants.”
“But I thought the soil was too polluted for plants to successfully grow. It’s why we have Nutrition Cubes.” Mike stated.
Jacob sighed. When he was a boy his grandma had grown everything from flowers to tomatoes in her yard. She’d slice them up and feed them to him on hot summer days.
As Jacob aged into adulthood the great Soil Crisis began. Commercial farming was beginning to take its toil coupled with over population and the pollution caused by it was making it near impossible to grow anything. Despite being an expert in robotics Jacob had wanted to do something to save agriculture. He couldn’t fathom a world where no one had ever seen a home grown fruit or vegetable. Hell it was going to make raising cattle or chickens impossible as well and Jacob didn’t even like meat!
However someone else had beaten him to the punch. Nutrition Cubes were introduced as a substitute to real food. All the nutrition the body needed in an easy to eat soft squishy cube! No prep or cooking required! The ads for this new wonder food failed to mention that these cubes were flavorless blobs, but eventually that was pushed as a positive thing as well. It encouraged people to eat less so obesity would be less of a problem.
Jacob couldn’t take it. He joined the Gardener’s revolution even back in the good days of Kane Co. They were mostly geezers like him who put their blood, swear, and tears into cultivating healthy soil to grow food. He of course continued to garden even when he decided to start a revolution against Kane Co. which was mostly just him. It hadn’t been going well.
“Maybe you should try this stuff. I think you’ll like it.” Jacob offered Mike a strawberry. It wasn’t quite ripe yet, but it wouldn’t taste too bad.
Mike eyed it suspiciously. “You’re sure I can eat this?”
Jacob stuffed it into his mouth and picked another one for Mike. Yep. Not too bad.
With hesitation that Jacob would rarely see in Mike Chilton in the future Mike bit into the little red fruit. His eyes widened as his mind buzzed with activity.
“Well?” Jacob asked.
Mike wasn’t sure what was going on in his mouth. “It’s…weird.”
“You mean it has flavor?”
The teen ate the rest of the fruit and savored it for a moment. Was this what taste was like? He mostly relied on the texture of a Nutrition Cube to determine whether he liked it or not. “Do you have anything else I can eat?”
Jacob smiled at him. Mike’s enthusiasm could’ve just been he hadn’t eaten anything since he got trapped in Motorcity, but Jacob wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to share the wonders of gardening with him. “I think the cucumbers are ready by now. Though I’ve been working on this apple tree for a while now…”
Mike learned a lot of things about plants that day.