3D-printed carrot does not rely on large areas of land or maintenance costs, can be cheaper

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A new kind of 3D-printed carrot, in the words of its Qatar-based inventors
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I'd say a sense of continuity and familiarity. It'd be weird if you're suddenly told to eat a cube that can fulfill all of your nutritional needs when you've been eating foods of variable shapes for so long.

As someone who has diced, julienned, and sliced thousands of pounds of carrots, let me assure you that most people are not eating carrot shaped carrots.

I will eat the nutri-cube and I will like it. I am proud that we're finally entering the sci-fi era of this dystopia

My vast disappointment for the conspicuous lack of jetpacks cannot be salved save by a home nutri-cube dispenser.

I have literally fantasized about the "food cube" that fills nutrional needs for a meal! "What do you want to eat?" will be a question of the past! All you choose to consume is the B̷̛̛̰̮̥͕͓̺̔̽̉̽̃̾ͅã̸̛͍̌̓̊̓̊̆̈́͐̕͝͝r̶̢̺͍̺͓̖͐̂

We've had nutri-cubes for a long time now. These are actually pretty good, IMO.

Look how happy this man is with his government mandated nutrition cube:

You will not ask for any other nutrition. Thank you fellow citizen, this makes me very happy