Cyberpunk: 2075

What should be the signboard of a Japanese food store?

Sashimi, sushi, tempura?

In 2075, although these traditional Japanese foods can still be synthesized and manufactured using strange materials, their appearance is so different from the past that they can only be ranked among Japanese foods and cannot be regarded as signatures. On the menu, there is only one type of Japanese food that is the most popular among today’s Japanese food restaurants in Night City.

Yakitori.

Made from synthetic meat, Jack ordered twenty skewers as soon as it came out, and it looked more like barbecued meatballs than chicken skewers, and he strongly recommended Carl and Oliver to try it.

While Carl was still thinking about what the chicken skewers were made of and whether they could be eaten, Oliver, who was sitting next to him, was already eating one skewer in one hand. Watching him eat the meatballs in one bite, he was enjoying the meal. It seems that this grilled chicken skewer suits his taste very well.

After hesitating for a moment, thinking that insects would have to be eaten sooner or later, Karl picked up the chicken skewers, bit into a meatball, and chewed it in his mouth for a while.

"Well..."

He spat it out.

It wasn't that Karl was wasting food, but the impact of this thing was too strong. The moment he ate it, Karl felt his lips and teeth protesting, and his stomach twitched. His body was warning Karl. This thing couldn't be entered, so I subconsciously followed the feeling and spit it out as soon as I sensed the threat.

How do you describe the taste of this thing... If Karl were asked to describe it in two words, he would say it tastes terrible. If he used three words to describe it, it would be very unpleasant. If he used four words to describe it, it would be super unpleasant. , and if it is mixed with some lack of quality, it will be really unpalatable.

The overall taste is similar to the low-quality ham sausage mixed with sawdust that Carl used to eat as a child, which was full of starch and even disgusted for dogs. The seasoning is also very strong, like chewing a soaked sausage. It tasted like shredded chili paper balls mixed with soy sauce and vinegar. I can only say that it was unpalatable, beyond imagination.

Oliver and Jack were eating something sweet. They were stunned for a moment when they saw Carl frowning and spitting out the chicken meatballs he had just chewed. Then both of them immediately thought of something like this in their minds. scenes performed in the film.

Is this thing poisonous? !

The two people stopped eating instantly and became wary, but what Carl said after spitting out the food made them lower their newly raised wariness.

"This stuff tastes too bad!"

"It tastes bad?"

Staring at Carl's chicken skewers that looked no different from theirs, Jack looked at Oliver, and Oliver also looked at Jack. Both of them saw doubts in each other's eyes.

Isn't this chicken skewer delicious? Why did Karl say it tastes bad?

Could it be that there is something wrong with Carl's chicken skewers?

With this idea in mind, Jack picked up the chicken skewers that Carl stopped eating after one bite, bit off a piece of meatball and started eating it. After chewing it twice, there was an obvious look of confusion on his face. appearance.

"Is this delicious?"

"Isn't this delicious?"

Listening to what Jack and Carl said, Oliver took the chicken skewer with only one piece left from Jack's hand, bit into the last piece of meatball, and then after chewing a few times, he showed the same expression as Jack.

"This, isn't it delicious?"

Looking at the expressions of Jack and Oliver, Carl also roughly understood that they were all used to such low-quality food that was full of seasonings to change the taste. He could not accurately describe how difficult it was to eat this thing. He could only He sighed and said something.

"Compared to real chicken skewers, these synthetic meat skewers taste terrible."

“Real chicken kebabs?”

Oliver only thought that Carl was joking because the chicken skewers in this restaurant were not to his liking: "That thing is against the laws of Night City. Ever since the previous bird flu outbreak, Night City has banned poultry-related meat. If you If we want to try something new, we can secretly find some on the black market, but it’s very expensive.”

Jack saw something else from Carl's expression and words. He opened his mouth wide and said in disbelief: "Carl, look at you, you haven't really eaten real chicken skewers before, have you?" ”

"Of course I only commented like this after eating it."

Karl said: "Anyway, I don't want to touch this chicken skewers anymore. Give me something else. Eating this thing is really torture for me."

“I’ve eaten real chicken skewers, but I’m so disgusted with these synthetic chicken skewers…”

Oliver now believed that Carl had really eaten chicken skewers before. He recalled that when he invited Carl to have his first meal, Carl only wanted to eat vegetarian food: "You were not the boss of some company before. Bar."

"Will the young master take a Lexington now?"

Karl waved his hand, called the waiter, and asked her to get him something else to eat.

Then, in front of Oliver and Jack who were eating and watching, it was like serving food. Carl only took one bite of food each time and then put it down. The accumulated food that could not be eaten was taken to him by them without disdain. When they came here to eat, the food almost piled up in front of the two of them.

"Stop, stop, Carl."

Seeing that if Carl ordered any more, his and Jack's stomachs would be bursting with food, so Oliver quickly stopped Carl from ordering the entire menu.

Oliver's cheeks twitched slightly as he looked at Carl who was still not satisfied. He covered his forehead and sighed, saying: "Fried pork chops, sushi, sashimi, Japanese curry and a bunch of messy things, young master, you have almost ordered the entire menu, and you haven't found anything satisfactory yet."

"You can't blame me for this."

Carl said helplessly: "None of these things are edible. I am only glad that I have eaten Chinese cold noodles these two days, otherwise I would have starved to death first."

"I am really getting more and more curious about your original living conditions, Carl."

Jack touched his already round belly: "Not only chicken, you have eaten pork, beef, and fish before. What kind of environment did you live in in the past?"

"Probably just real meat, eat whatever you want..."

With a sigh, Carl aimed at the last tea rice.

Fortunately, the tea rice did not disappoint Carl, and there was finally something edible.

While eating the tea rice, Carl was a little pessimistic.

After eating so much, he still ended up eating meatless food. If this continues, he would really have to eat only vegetarian food in the future.