Quotes / Food Pills

Thor: Would you like sustenance?

Carter: Yes, thank you. I'm starving.

[A selection of different shaped colored pellets appears on a table.]

Thor: I like the yellow ones.

— Stargate SG-1, "Small Victories"

Only Fexa supplies your daily requirement of 2000 kilocalories! So make sure you eat a pound of Fexa Food Pills every day!

— Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.

—David Bowie, "Space Oddity"

Violet Beauregarde: By gum, it's gum!
Willy Wonka: Wrong! It's the most amazing, fabulous, sensational gum in the whole world.
Violet Beauregarde: What's so fab about it?
Willy Wonka: This little piece of gum is a three-course dinner.
Mr. Salt: Bull!
Willy Wonka: No, roast beef, but I haven't got it quite right yet.

—Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Janice lifted a matchbox of food pills, calculating the totals of things carried in those high-axled, tall-bedded wagons. For each man, each woman, incredible tonnages! Hams, bacon slabs, sugar, salt, flour, dried fruits, "pilot" bread, citric acid, water, ginger, pepper - a list as big as the land! Yet here, today, pills that fit a wrist watch fed you not from Fort Laramie to Hangtown, but all across a wilderness of stars.

— The Wilderness, by Ray Bradbury

Sue-2 came back with food. Coloured pills that looked like Smarties but tasted like chalk.
“All the nutrition you need is here,” said Gewell, “in the water and the capsules. For us, mealtimes are mostly ceremonial, for debate and reflection. Var-Z said that some of his best ideas popped into his head while he was chatting idly after a satisfying pill.”
Richard didn’t doubt it. He also still felt hungry.

— Tomorrow Town