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Blend-a-Lunch
Blender stall in food courts, for meals on the run... | |
The food courts in the city (and, I suspect, many others) are usually populated with the type of businessmen that don't have enough time to sit down and enjoy/even eat a meal, but need to grab something they can eat with their hands, a drink, and walk back to the office.
My idea is to set up a stall
in a food court, not selling any food, but with an array of blenders and cups (the soft drink type). Businessman with lunch walks up, gives us food; we unwrap it and throw it in the blenders with some sort of emulsifier (flavourless, probably), puree it for them and put it in a cup, so that they can drink it on their way back - faster, easier and simpler than eating.
A larger variety of food can now be eaten (drunk) a lot easier, with one hand (one hand free for briefcase/phone/etc), and without the afeared mess on the suit.
Slim-Fast Diet Drink
http://www.slimfast.com
Who needs REAL food? [wasraw, Dec 22 2000, last modified Oct 17 2004]
Goo
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Goo
Similar idea, different demographics [Uncle Nutsy, Dec 22 2000, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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Look, what do you do when you put in your mouth? Chew it. So it ends up the same texture anyway... |
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(Personally, I wouldn't do it) |
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Where is it baked (so to speak)? And do I look like I'm ripping off other peoples ideas, seeing as the few ideas I've come up with have already been done somewhere else... (I do check the Halfbakery, though) |
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Why blend? Just sell a nutritious liquid lunch that's non-alcoholic. Similar to diet shakes that some folks in the U.S. already drink in place of a meal (see link).
You could do it in lots of different flavors, too. |
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No reason to fret - just change your demographic target to kids! "But mom! I really wanna drink my PBJ sandwich!" |
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See, the idea is that people can inbibe a meal with ease, but still have whatever they had a craving for. For example, the other day, I wanted chicken teryaki - I wouldn't stop until I had found a decent Japanese restaurant that sold it. Now, I'm sure other people are like this, but also in a hurry - hence, they get it pureed and can "eat" it on the run. |
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Because, really, you'd get sick of milkshakes, no matter how nutritous... |
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Would your craving have been satisfied just as well by chicken teriyaki slurry? |
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Isn't the time spent ordering and waiting for take-out the problem? Wouldn't the time required to hurriedly shovel the food into yourself be about the same as that necessary to take it over to a Blend-a-Lunch stall, have them gooify it for you, pay them, and choke down the resulting cup of grainy sludge? |
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What the hell were *you* thinking? (+ -> -) |
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