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From: bluejay@raven1.DEC
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Subject: Re: The ordering of food
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Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 08:07:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  8 08:07:17 1984
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(you DO have all your food in order, don't you?)

The little cards probably do contain nutritional information. When you 
insert the card, the computer figures out what you need, then does an 
analysis of your brain, taste buds, state of mind, etc... to come up 
with something thats likely to go down well. (Why it does all this is 
a mystery, because it always produces something that's not quite 
entirely unlike tea...)

On the other hand, I remember one episode (title forgotten) where the 
Enterprise takes on a bunch of children from a research outpost 
(parents all dead). In one scene, Nurse Chappel offers the kids some 
ice cream, holds up a bunch of cards and says 'Pick a flavor'.

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