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... Don't tell me that stuff they're ladling out of the fountain is what those fellas in rags were talking about...

It is Meat Soda.

<Meursault, what's Meat Soda?>

It's a beverage that reproduces flavors preserved in memory.

<Hmm... Like Canned Experience, you mean?>

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Identical, in the respect that neither can ever attain the genuine article.

As for the underlying principle, it accumulates the flavors and experiences of its constituent ingredients, then uses those records to reconstruct for the consumer a -

What are you people supposed to be, you hear?