"The purifier pinged. Tally opened the top and looked inside. It was noodles with a red sauce, with small kernels of soymeat, and it smelled delicious. She looked at the label again. "SpagBol... spaghetti Bolognese!"
She found a fork and ate hungrily. With the sunrise warming her and the crash of the sea rumbling below, it was the best meal she'd had for ages.
....Tally sighed and sat up. Maybe if she had a little more to eat. She pulled out food packets one by one. The labels read:
SpagBol
SpagBol
SpagBol
SpagBol
SpagBol...
Tally counted forty-one more packets, enough for three SpagBols a day for two weeks. She leaned back and closed her eyes, suddenly exhausted. "Thank you, Dr. Cable.""
-Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
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Uglies is a great YA series. I really do love the culture creation that Scott Westerfeld does for the cities and the viewing of our own society through that lens.
We do not have technology for reconstituted food quite like theirs, so I decided store bought freezer meals were the best substitute. I would absolutely hate eating this for two meals in a row, much less for days on end...