Welcome Loungers! Happy not-quite-Friday.
Have I mentioned I love food? I feel ripped off anytime someone suggests ‘brunch’. They stole a meal right from under me! Give it back, now! Today I’m planning my meals 10 years into the future (as well as thinking about my lunch). I’m a progressive little Vegemite.
So, what’s on the menu? You’ll need to promise not to hold me to this, because even visionaries can get it wrong occasionally. Back to the Future told us we were meant to have our hoverboards by last year, and it’s looking like we may in fact have a couple more years still to wait. Disappointing.
Anyway, without further ado I present my top 5 predictions for the food of the future:
1. Meat – from the printer, not the butcher
Did you know they can print 3D guns now that actually fire? Did you also know they can print replacement organs for the body? It’s only sensible, then, that they should leave Betsy the cow to graze in the paddock her udders un-muddled (umm.. though printing milk could prove messy. We may hang on to those udders) instead of sending her to the handbag factory. Instead, they can print my eye fillet. It’s all the rage on the latest season of Gray’s Anatomy, don’t you know. The docs are all fighting over whether the printing of a new hand or a new liver should take priority. (Tough call, that one. Hand needed to lift the wine glass… but liver needed to process the alcohol. Glad it’s not my decision.) Clearly an eye fillet will beat printing over the gravy beef, however, and we’ll all have champagne beef tastes on a printing budget, while the forests grow and Betsy moos a long and happy life. Everyone’s happy, except the unemployed butchers.
2. Insect sticks
Mmmm a bug barbie. Grasshopper kebabs at the night markets, washed down with a little grass juice. We’re health conscious MOFOs these days (no, silly, the 2025 days), and insects pack an energy and nutrient punch. And the crunch when char-grilled with a little soy, ginger and chilli? Delish.
3. Chocolate tubes
Remember sweetened condensed milk in a tube? Our mums would catch us sneaking it and snatch it from our mouths? Well, the health conscious future will make chocolate in a tube, but it will come from cacao nibs. Silken tofu and various other binders will give it a velvety texture, and it will somehow taste great, and be good for you. Not at all like the dairy-free gluten-free friand I ate the other day that tasted like glue. This stuff is actually yum-good as well as good-good. Remember kids, a squirt of chocolate a day keeps the doctor away!
4. Avocado milkshakes
Ewwwwww. I know. That’s what I say too. Ewwwwwww. But, as our gullets circumnavigate the globe, from China, to Thailand, then to Japan, India, Korea, Vietnam, Spain, authentic Mexican, and we’ve ‘conquered’ all of these cuisines, we’ll be looking for our next big flavour adventure. We’ve been doing the mole and agave tequila drinks for a little while now… I suspect the next unexplored culinary frontier will be Africa. And in Africa, they LOVE their avocado milkshakes. I know, I know. But hey, who would have thought balls of tapioca would taste so good swimming around in tea?
5. 100 year old Peat Bog eggs
You’ve heard how the Chinese eat their 100 year-old-eggs as a delicacy, I suspect? While not ACTUALLY 100 years old, they are some seriously BADDASSLY-preserved eggs. Think about how well the Peat Bogs of Scotland preserve things, like dead men. Remember the Peat Bog man? If a bit of good peat can keep a man who’s ?? years old looking this good, just think about the health benefits of preserving your food in a good bit of peat. Before you know it, everybody will have a nice sunken Peat pit in their back garden, and will be inviting each other around for Peat Pit Pickling Parties on the weekend.
I can’t wait. xx
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Have I mentioned how awesome your imagination in. chocolate tubes – hell yes and avocado shakes actually sounds kind of OK. I’ll leave the bugs on sticks though if you dont mind
x
Sonia Life Love Hiccups recently posted…A Million and One Thank Yous and Reasons to Celebrate
My stomach turns just thinking about eating 100 year old eggs, you can give me chocolate in a tube right now though!
Lauren @ Create Bake Make recently posted…Living with a Tradie….
I’m glad that 3D printing can help a lot of people, but eating 3D printed meat just does not sound very good at all. I don’t know why I didn’t think that 3D printed chocolate sounded gross, but maybe we should just stay away from unnatural foods. Thanks for the interesting post!
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I went to a party a while ago and they played bug roulette – I became very adept at pretending to eat the bug (helped by the fact that everyone was extremely drunk) – I could go for the chocolate in a tube though!
Sarah Mac recently posted…The Purple Donut Of Love
OMG, can you please make sure that you make those chocolate tubes if they haven’t done so in 2025? I will totally hold you to that, it’s genius!
Kylie Purtell, A Study in Contradidctions recently posted…Thankful Thursday – On teething, bathing, sweating and Zumbo
I remember reading an article in a weekend newspaper many years ago about Arthur C Clarke’s predictions for the 21th Century. One of them was that we would be eating food that miraculously materialised on our plates at the press of a button. This sounds eerily like your 3D printer food.
Arthur C Clarke did not predict the rise of the avocado milkshake or peat bog, however. Well done.
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I think I will eat all the sugar, carbs and junk food I crave right now, because frankly if i live that long I won’t be eating much in the future…
CHOCOLATE TUBES. GENIUS. Or a chocolate IT drip. (IT for intra-tastebud. Brilliant, I know.) Thanks for hosting The Lounge! And thanks for making it Freestyler rock the microphone. Haven’t been able to blog today. x
Also unable to link. D’oh. Catch you later for attempt #2!
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Well, thank you for turning me off my breakfast. I shall be very thin in the future if that is the only food on offer, that’s one consolation. I’ve heard of green smoothies but I didn’t know they involved avocado. Can’t I just stick the green stuff into a cake and call it healthy like Jessica Seinfeld does?
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Bugs on sticks, I had deep friends soft mud crab over a bed yummy stuff the other day, felt like I was eating a crunchy bug. As for avocado NEVER HOT. Chocolate paste, I can just see the multi nationals trying to stop that! All love your imagination Kimstar xxx
Emily @ Have A Laugh On Me recently posted…A mother’s love is infinite, circular and has no boundaries
I love avocado milkshakes! They’re HUGE in Indonesia! I have to take you to this fantastic hole in the wall Indo restaurant out in Little Indo, uh, I mean Kensington

Bugs on a stick? Hmmm…no fankyu.
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that’s me…not sure where the apostrophe went…
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You left off the million dollar stem cell patty…for a million dollars, I want something better than a handburger, but that me (yes, I know Hamburger – was just being mildly hilarious in my own head with the whole stem cell human body thing)
As for the 100 year old eggs – ewww. Real or Peat Bog….
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