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I still remember back in 1969 when my fourth grade teacher told us of the coming wonders in food. I don't recall her exact words but she was describing a wonderful new food. It could be molded to taste and look like just about anything! And you wouldn't know the difference! It would change everything!!
Only decades later on an otherwise non-descript day as I had to swallow extra hard on a dry cafeteria hamburger to get it down did I recall that day. And realized she was talking about soy.
In a single instant, all that childlike wonder, hope and amazement of a utopian food for a utopian future that I subconciously stored away for decades came rushing back to me just in time to be shattered like a cheap mirror as I reached for my high-fructose-corn-syrup enhanced beverage of the future to wash down my all-everything food of the future.
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