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Comment by hermannj314 | Hacker News Reader

The future of consumer food should be colorless, bland packaging that unambiguously describes the product.

Cattle, not pets. We don't need to name our food in 2023.

Emulsified High Fat Offal Tubes 237g 40% sawdust 20% water 20% mechanically recovered abbatoir floor meat 19% rapeseed oil 1% unpronounceable chemicals

Setup refrigerator monitoring, drop that into a YAML file, and let the cluster decide when it needs to provision more.

It's the only way to eat food at scale.

… among the latter of course: the green colorant that gives "Soylent Green" its characteristic color. Oh and while the abattoir floor meat is from cattle, the offal tubes are made from the meat of another mammal that we better not name here so as to not worry the customers

Store brands today do have deliberately bland packaging, in part so that you will be put off by it and buy a more expensive brand if you can afford it. Given this behavior I don't think bland packaging will ever dominate.

It's worse than that: bright colorful packaging is a Nash Equilibrium.

You prefer to eat pets rather than cattle?

Or is it just the naming you object to?

(not so) fun fact: in Switzerland, it is legal to eat dog meat and to raise and slaughter dogs for that specific purpose [1]… though not commercially… unlike, say, in China, where there are even dog meat festivals [2]:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat#Current_laws

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Meat_Festival

https://xkcd.com/993/

The “No Name” brand does exactly that.

The "white brand" stuff. Sure to be popular among certain groups but perhaps not for the best.

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