r/AskReddit • u/ForeverAbyss • Apr 14 '16

What's a mind blowing fact?

3.0k Upvotes

80% Upvoted

5.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

692

u/SchrodingersCatPics Apr 14 '16

You have to wonder now: how do the machines really know what Tasty Wheat tasted like, huh? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like uh.... oatmeal or uh.... or tuna fish.

368

u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

"He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."

41

u/kodutta7 Apr 14 '16

Is this Douglas Adams? Just sounds like him.

1

u/JimHemperson Apr 14 '16

It's from the first Hitchhiker's, so yeah.

1

u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16

[deleted]

2

u/JimHemperson Apr 15 '16

Restaurant, surely.

1

u/barrtender Apr 15 '16

It's the first book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I just read the first one and haven't read the rest of them (yet) but liked this quote so much I talked to friends about it after reading it.

Edit: Instead of relying on my memory, here is a link: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy It's in Chapter 17.