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.-- Detly, Dec 22 2000 Slim-Fast Diet Drink http://www.slimfast.comWho needs REAL food? [wasraw, Dec 22 2000, last modified Oct 17 2004] Goo http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/GooSimilar idea, different demographics [Uncle Nutsy, Dec 22 2000, last modified Oct 17 2004] Look, what do you do when you put in your mouth? Chew it. So it ends up the same texture anyway...
(Personally, I wouldn't do it)
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)-- Detly, Dec 22 2000 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.-- wasraw, Dec 22 2000 Yeah, I've seen them.
This is classier. *sulk*-- Detly, Dec 22 2000 No reason to fret - just change your demographic target to kids! "But mom! I really wanna drink my PBJ sandwich!"-- wasraw, Dec 22 2000 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.
Because, really, you'd get sick of milkshakes, no matter how nutritous...-- Detly, Dec 30 2000 Would your craving have been satisfied just as well by chicken teriyaki slurry?
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?-- Monkfish, Dec 30 2000 Your slogan:
Chyme it, baby!-- Vance, Feb 06 2001 What the hell were *you* thinking? (+ -> -)-- Detly, Mar 04 2004 random, halfbakery