15 Hilarious Predictions About the Year 2020 Made Long Ago

We’ll eat candy made of underwear.

Here’s another zinger from Kaempffert in the 1950 issue of Popular Mechanics: He predicted that all food would be delivered to our homes in the form of frozen bricks by the 21st century.

“Cooking as an art is only a memory in the minds of old people,” Kaempffert wrote. “A few die-hards still broil a chicken or roast a leg of lamb, but the experts have developed ways of deep-freezing partially baked cuts of meat.” It would never take anyone “more than half an hour to prepare … an elaborate meal of several courses,” he noted.

Thanks to advances in culinary technology, it would even be possible to take ordinary objects like old table linens and “rayon underwear” and bring them to “chemical factories to be converted into candy.” No thanks!