I guess if the replicator forces the components of the food to have certain nutritional requirements that makes sense, but it’s also kind of fucked up if it changes the taste so much from what you actually want that you can tell the difference.
You can tell the difference between regular candy and sugar free candy, between regular white bread and keto bread or gluten free bread. Or regular pretzels and gluten free free pretzels. Yet they’re close approximations with different health traits, some of which people tolerate better than others
But they’re also made with completely different materials. A replicator SHOULD be able to make anything that tastes like anything since it’s working at the molecular level.
I guess if the replicator forces the components of the food to have certain nutritional requirements that makes sense, but it’s also kind of fucked up if it changes the taste so much from what you actually want that you can tell the difference.
You can tell the difference between regular candy and sugar free candy, between regular white bread and keto bread or gluten free bread. Or regular pretzels and gluten free free pretzels. Yet they’re close approximations with different health traits, some of which people tolerate better than others
But they’re also made with completely different materials. A replicator SHOULD be able to make anything that tastes like anything since it’s working at the molecular level.