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Apps for food delivery have dominated traditional life. Cooking is now optional and inconvenient. Why would you chop unions when your phone can get dinner in ten minutes? Families start eating alone, meals personalized for each, and scheduled at different times. Kitchens begin to pile up with dust, appliances unused. -
Meal plans become something everyone predicts. Apps learn your schedule, mood, and hunger levels, delivering meals before you’re even hungry yet. Companies motto: “We feed you before you feel.” Grocery stores start closing nationwide since home cooking is seen as selfish and outdated -
After a nationwide salmonella outbreak, federal workers state that home kitchens are a national health hazard. Citizens are encouraged to use apps and replace cooking spaces with technology. These apps create food ports that deliver pre-approved meals for society. Cooking becomes associated with danger, dirt, and disease. -
Artificial Intelligence chefs replace human chefs entirely. "ChefCloud" has a 99.99% accuracy for making the correct and delicious tasting food with no flavor tolerance. Every meal will taste perfect and identical. Restaurants change into silent distripution warehouses. No smells or servers, just efficiency. -
Government health agencies outlaw ingredients like sugar, butter, caffeine, and spices. Flavor is recognized as disruptive to one's emotions. Only federal-approved taste is permitted. The word "taste" shifts from describing pleasure to describing uniformity. -
Children born after the year 2130 grow up not chewing. Meals are now dissolvable nutrient capsules. Parents brag about their toddlers having efficient metabolisms. Food is now medical and not cultural. It is eaten for function rather than joy. -
Older citizens, elders in specific, begin rebuilding kitchens illegally in secret rooms or basements, cooking recipes with forbidden taste by memory. The smell of garlic or melted butter becomes an act of rebellion. Government drones and dogs patrol for smell abnormalities. Arrests and crime increase. -
A global crash of technology wipes out NourishNet for a full 72 hours. Billions are in panic and no one remembers how to prepare food. Millions around the nation starve and are surrounded by empty cupboards and dirty kitchens. -
A secret group who call themselved The Flame arise, teaching the lost art of cooking. They steal ingredients, grow herbs, and share recipes in an encrypted chat. The government names them Taste Terrorists. -
Children laugh in perfect rhythm, no hunger, no mess, no smell, just harmony and silence.