I'm fairly confident that that was not a real Frenchman!

I was thinking today, though, how in love that period was with the idea of standardizing stuff in general. If they could have found the perfect meal, delicious and nutritionally balanced, would they have tried to ensure that no one ever ate anything else, so as to avoid the messiness of different ingredients and recipes? In any case, I think it no coincidence that this film was made the same year Brave New World was written.

Today we recognize both that such dreams are not possible and that we wouldn't want them to come true even if they were - but I wonder which disillusion came first?