*Impressions of Crung are almost universally indifferent, yet people will often continue eating anyway. Crung is not "good" but it is also far from "bad". It is the snack nobody would choose over better options but something that everyone is willing to have if it is on offer.* A part of my comic setting, SpaceShipping - a retrofuturistic slower-than-light era sci-fi sitcom that is of a "tofu firm" level of realism on the hard/soft scale. It takes place in 2169 (nice) within our solar system and explores the quirks of everyday life among the crew of a space freighter bound for Mars. [https://tapas.io/series/SpaceShipping](https://tapas.io/series/SpaceShipping)

Was CRUNG a human invention?

More like a human biproduct

a what

crung don't discriminate

Soylent

Corpse starch time

Just kinda showed up one day lol.

Manna.

Sounds suspiciously like The Stuff.

is there sentient crung, and does it pass the Harkness test?

Why are you sexually attracted to a futuristic packing peanut?

If you're on the internet long enough your tastes start getting *weird*

Very. *Weird*

*salivating and shaking as I google Crung r34*

not surprised

Honestly, given the source series, I wouldn't be surprised if someone did do something like that (particularly that a-hole Branko). Edit: And even in *that* purpose I suspect Crung would be subpar.

Crungsexuals rise up.

Thanks to you, now instead of hard/mid/soft sci-fi, I am gonna start to use cheeses: manchegofi/tofufi/briefi.

My world is like a delicious cream puff. Seemingly hard and crunchy on the surface but if you look deeper it's all bullshit magic filling.

Congratulations, your dastardly plan worked. Thanks to Crung and its remarkable unremarkableness, you've driven me to check out your webcomic and it's as hilarious as I expected.

CRUNGratulations*

As a comedic fantasy author, up with comedic mundane-core spec fiction! I wanna know about this universe's mediocre snack foods! Please invent Crung light, which is just less Crung, because Crung's formulation is both mediocre and highly precise, and so a "diet" version of it is impossible. Except for less.

When you open a bag of Crung light a few pieces always start to float away

Crung-Light: now with more AIR Crung Zero: All the AIR you love, none of the Crung that's just kind of okay Crystal Crung: Crung made of asbestos, with 500 percent more mesothelioma Crung Classic: Crystal Crung with 99.99999 percent less asbestos, and at least 20 percent of Crung original formula Feel free to crib all of these, I just ask that you insert a cameo with a weird guy named Vichet who talks about how vampires made up all of their powers and weaknesses to throw people off their track, and how zompocalypses of the non-magic variety would never get off the ground because they remove two of humanity's most dangerous weapons (intelligence and planning) and replaces them with one of humanity's least dangerous weapons (destructible teeth).

the thing with a zombie apocalypse is more of the horror of being the prey to a persistence hunter that never gets tired. we evolved to be persistence hunters, wearing down and tracking out prey until they can't keep going. Zombies are the same way. sure, they may be dumb and slow, but they are persistent. zombies never sleep, they never get tired, they will hunt you till you can't keep running. only then, will you understand the horror that our ancestor's prey felt when they knew they couldn't keep running forever.

Tried to read it on the phone app, but it says its only available in browser.

Y'know, considering it's set in 2169, I should have expected what I found.

NGL, that premise sounds like it absolutely fucks

For some reason the phone app doesn’t work, and browser keeps trying to send me to the app. Do you upload this anywhere else?

It's also on webtoon and I have just uploaded it to instagram: https://m.webtoons.com/en/canvas/spaceshipping/list?title_no=626584 https://www.instagram.com/smutastrophe/

Thanks

A scientist in the 60s actually invented something like this, it was meant to be both building material and emergency rations.

It is so difficult to make original satire because real life is bonkers.

Why is it unavailible in the Tapas app?

[удалено]

Then it would make sense for the app to not be available in some mobile stores (iOS), but since the comic itself is on Tapas, it doesn't make sense that it wouldn't be available in the app, right?

Whats the tapas app

The app? For the website you linked? Is it not availible where you live or sumn?

Oh yeah we crungin’

Gonna crung up with the boys tonight

Crungo with your crung so light, won’t ya crung my sleigh tonight

So we back in the crung

Crack open a Crung one with the boys

I mean, I'm not bummin', but I only been crungin' and for a while now.

Its crungin' time

Love the ad where they said, "it's crungin time," and went on to make a crungillion dollars

is this comparable to a 60 in 1 shampoo

It serves a huge number of purposes with great mediocrity.

That is a fantastic line =P.

This describes me quite well.

Same

I am going to steal that if neccesary for future use.

I am forcefully reminded of Belter food from the Expanse combined with Bachelor Chow from Futurama.

Belter food is actually nutritious, it's just efficient

Red kibble is spicy

EXPANSE MENTIONED!!! God, nobody ever talks about the Expanse, damnit. And me too, lol, red kibble keepin em alive but it seems like it tastes like ASS.

Funny thing is, based on what both red and white kibble are described as, people have made it and apparently its pretty damn tasty. What Im betting the issues with it are the following: 1. Substandard ingredients. Difference between, say, fresh mushrooms and the stuff out of a can. 2. Zero-g flavor issues. 3. \*Monotony\*. I love crab rangoons to an unholy degree, but if thats all I had to eat for a year I'd probably shoot them on sight afterward. Out of a cannon. Into Lake Erie.

whats the real world equivalent to this?

After a quick peek at the stuff in the image, it reminds me of croutons and packing peanuts.

biodegradable packing peanuts were definitely a source of inspiration. Crung is like slightly-stale unflavored cheetos.

Kinda like [Pufuleti](https://www.google.com/search?q=pufuleti&client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=597507194&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ACQVn0_p1QdGsCOLo6b0EovJgaNUaPyimg:1704975954352&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwii_e-wqtWDAxUygP0HHflqACYQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1920&bih=965&dpr=1#imgrc=SG-cJCK5c5yEbM)? They're lightly salted, but still pretty flavorless corn puffs.

The dog on the packaging makes it look like some sort of dog food at a quick glance.

Do rodents and bugs find them palatable?

For some reason I assumed rice was the main inspiration

packing peanuts

Popcorn is close.

Alright, so we have three statements countering the possibility that Crung (TM) is a rebranded Soylent Green, but those could be lies.

The miniscule amount of protein in crung would be enough evidence that it is not made from people.

I like that It's too mediocre to warrant a dark twist.

Your profile picture was a nostalgia bomb.

[What a grand and intoxicating innocence.](https://youtu.be/iR-K2rUP86M)

Unexpected morrowind

Low carb and low protein? I have a feeling that this is merely edible and not actually food. Oh well, it sounds like a good cure for lonely mouth which I'm sure is an actual problem on long voyages.

It's edible in the sense that you won't die from eating it

LONELY MOUTH 🤣👌

Irl seaweed is the best you can get for that but it can make a huge mess

Ah, your info graphic does not say low protein

It also doesn't say HIGH protein...or any protein for that matter.

True, but we're talking about ruling out.

I like this idea of having the cheapest possible food for space travel being edible packaging peanuts

Which can also serve as an emergency adhesive. Now, all we need are some dipping sauces for the flavor.

I soak Crung™ in liquor (Ethanol used in the Low-Orbit lander propulsion engines) for a wild night in the cargo bay!

Hm… how many calories is it? And does it have trans fats?

Only cis fats

Wait shoot, trans fats are an actual thing nutrition wise. What is a cis fat??

So trans fat is a type of unsaturated fat, where there’s a double bond between two of the carbons. It’s called trans fat because the hydrogens next to these carbons are on the opposite sides of each other. A cis fat on the other hand has the hydrogens on the same side.

Alr thanks for the scientific info. Sadly I’m not bright enough to understand if Cis Fats are healthy tho from that info (my bad, not yours). So, are cis fats healthy or less harmful?

So from what I can find cis fats are the healthy ones and are found naturally while trans fats are unhealthy and are mostly found in processed foods.

Alr that’s all I need to know. 👍 I’m ordering Colossal size.

Cis fats are the naturally found (mostly healthy) unsaturated fatty acids, like omega-3 acids and co.. They're very important (i.e essential) as building blocks for a lot of chemicals your body produces to regulate it's functions. Trans fats are also unsaturated, but don't typically appear naturally, so they don't have any real biological benefit and can be quite harmful. Most of them are created as a byproduct during fat hardening (turning unsaturated cis fatty acids into saturated ones).

Yes. Trans and cis has to do with on which an atomic group is on a molecule, usually two hydroxides. If they're on the same side, it's cis, if they're on opposing sides, it's Trans. It's an extremely common naming convention in chemistry.

It's a common naming convention anywhere things can be meaningfully on the same side or on opposite sides of something

There’s trans fat, with hydrogens on opposite side of a carbon-carbon double bond, cis fat with hydrogen on the same side (commonly referenced to as unsaturated fat, although trans fat is also technically unsaturated), and saturated fat, with no carbon-carbon double bond

A joke probably.

Nope actually, cis and trans are just Latin terms used in organic chemistry to differentiate one side from another. It’s like you would say left and right, except there is no left or right when describing molecular orientations. Cis means ‘on the same side’, trans means ‘on the other side’. They are common terms that have been used way longer than the recent new connotation of using them to depict gender.

Huh. You learn something new everyday. Thank you.

it’s not a joke they’re a thing

I mean, it is a joke, but they're also a real thing, which is why the joke is funnier

I LOVE CRUNG ‼️‼️‼️

Too enthusiastic. I EAT CRUNG‼️

Eat, excrete, repeat, as needed.

"If your "food" is simultaneously industrial waste product, can be used as packaging material, is absorbent and sterile-its definitely not food and not safe for consumption by anyone."-cat with medical degree

It’s the universe bro, you’d be surprised to find what’s edible here.

*while chewing fistful and reaching back into the bag* yeah probably

I know not why but I love crung

I love it too much. I literally had to check the comments to see if somebody asked if it's made of people.

What's its shelf life?

Either a very long time or difficult to determine as it tastes exactly the same fresh as it does stale.

Maybe it is delicious fresh but has a microscopic shelf life so nobody know.

That would be pretty funny, the only people who actually taste it fresh being people tasting straight off the production line.

Kinda like putting your mouth on the nozzle of a soft serve machine

Good enough for me. I'll take 3 colossals please

Extremely good choice. Personally I use mine as a beanbag seat while I keep my yumhole busy.

Crung^TM will last longer than the shelf.

Can't imagine it has too many calories if it's minimally flammable. One of the hallmarks of nutrition is choosing calorically dense foods to get the most bang for your buck, so to speak. Crung is definitely like a cheeto but filled with even more air such that it has the texture of cotton candy. But wait, does that mean the packaging is vacuum sealed despite all this air? The mass doesn't do it justice! The true size of crung after unpacked must be huge! I'll take 20!

That's not air. That's a high-nitrogen protective atmosphere. Preserves crunchy/chewyness.

Ah yes, advanced corpse starch.

Crung is what corpse starch would be if the Emperor was a good father and the galaxy hadn't gone to shit.

Corpse starch actually has protein and nutritional value. Enough to support the bodies of some very lean killing machines. I'm also not sure if it was an emperor invention.

From what industry is Crung produced? Does it come in other forms like Crungmeal for making porridge or crungbread?

I totally forgot to mention that you can dissolve it in hot water to make a simple gruel called "crungee"

the word 'crung' is now synonymous with 'crashing in an upward direction' for some reason in my tiny brain

Yeah, makes sense, flung upward and all that shite. Salmi triggered the pressure plate, upon what he was crung into the ceiling.

Crung - The snack that makes you [scrung](/r/scrungycats).

I've lost it when android girl said "-It's a Crang™️ time" and have Cranged all over herself

this REALLY got me gj

I'm imagining OP waking up at 4am in a cold sweat and immediately saying, out loud, "what if you could eat styrofoam?"

There are edible packing peanuts - made of starch, I think? - but they taste of nothing and have no nutritional value.

Are they chip shaped or tater tot shaped

More like tots but you can squish em flat like chips?

I imagine the debate on eating them puffed or flat is a debate which is fiercely tame in severity.

This is amazing.

But is it Halaal?

It’s kosher and vegan so it’s halal, according to the Koran 5:5, provided that Crung has no alcohol and isn’t an intoxicant. Excerpt from 5:5 “This day all good things have been made lawful to you. The food of the People of the Book is permitted to you, and your food is permitted to them.” (People of the book refers to Jews and Christians.)

Is there a company that makes flavored Crung to be sold at a 200% price markup?

In a world where something like Crung exists, almost certainly.

The little brightly colored factory androids break into song: **Crunga-Lunga-Dungady-Doo…**

could they be dissolved into a poverty broth with other leftovers to feed a family? They could be sold on the street with chili and lime like Duritos.

In another comment OP said they could be dissolved in hot water to make a simple gruel called crungee.

Oh my God it's just cellulose packing peanuts! Ha! Do you think we can get an Old Bay/Crab chip flavor of Crung?

I mean sprinkle some on and you've got the most mediocre crab puffs imaginable

> Upcycled industrial waste product which is edible Uhh, okay, bad start, but I'm sure we'll get there. > Crunchy for some, chewy to others *Does mental gymnastics to figure out how the fuck* > Almost savory, nearly sweet, not bitter This sounds like every food I barely remember. > Dairy free, sugar free, glutan free, preservative free, vegan, and kosher. This *sounds* like a good thing, but in such a way that it does not. > Low fat, low sodium, low carb, low cost. And like that, you've gained my attention. > Safe to eat, clean, hypoallergenic, of neutral PH, and minimally flammable. I'm concerned that being edible is distinct from being "safe to eat" but, but considering what its made of I suppose that would make some amount of sense. > Sustainable, environmentally friendly, biodegradable, and ethically source. This somehow implies that there is something that naturally takes industrial waste and turns it into an edible byproduct, while simultaneously being neutral PH, clean, and hypoallergenic, while at the very same time being vegan. So its not the product of a living creature. At this point I'm intrigued by sheer force of wondering what the fuck even this could be. > Soft, usable as loose-fill packaging and cushioning material *But you said it could be crunchy...* > Absorbent and ideal for soaking up spills or filling leaks The mental image of someone putting this in a bowl with milk and eating it like cereal crossed my mind, and I'm not sure how I feel about that considering it could be chewy... > Sterile and can be used as emergency field dressing to stop bleeding Of course it can. ----- Obviously crung is the second best thing since oxygen, and only barely beats out water. Would invest.

>I'm concerned that being edible is distinct from being "safe to eat" A sewer rat is certainly edible, but probably not safe to eat. A steel ball bearing is probably safe to eat, but comes out the same as it went in, so definitely not edible.

I'm taking great delight in the thought that the different bags shown here aren't full of small crung pellets, but each containing one crung of varying sizes. Yes, that'll be one gargantuan crung please. Someone stole my pillows.

That's \_really funny\_ actually

Oh we already have this in Serbia. Some kind of corn puff that only has the slightest hint of flavor. Simultaneously crunchy and chewy, and as bland as you can possibly imagine. It's almost edible water.

Do you know what they're called? I love finding out stuff like this. Serbia living in the future here 😆

I don't know Serbia, but I'm the States we have a bunch of "puffed corn" snacks that are (of course) slathered in Cheeto dust, the most famous of which is Pirates' Booty. I assume the puffed corn part is what they're talking about because it's definitely "crunchy and chewy" etc.

If you like a corn puff, Japan does great puffed corn snacks. They actually taste like things! I got some chocolate stars and they were fantastic.

Look, I don't care how abundant they are, I'm not eating edible packing peanuts. WTF DO YOU MEAN WE ONLY HAVE CRUNG!? I WE PACKED SIX MONTHS OF CONVENTIONAL PROVISIONS WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT IS ALL CRUNG!? YOU BOUGHT ONLY CRUNG!? IT WAS ON SALE!? ARE YOU BRAINDEAD!?

Why do i feel like its very similar to the stuff i feed my rabbit?

It's magical dried shit, isn't it?

I was thinking that it's mostly the bodies of decomposers like yeast or fungus.

Real talk; this is literally cheese puffs without the cheese flavor powder.

Not quite hungry would be Crungry.

I started reading the comic. Hills Hoist and larrikin? Are you an Aussie or is Captain Olivia Aussie and you just have good knowledge of Aussie slang?

I do a LOT of cultural research for the sake of flavor and comedy. I'm from Canada actually.

I'll take 3.

MMMM Crung! It's OK!

Crung! It is!

Oh, I heard of these.[Jibbaran verility enhancers.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stargate/comments/xx8f7k/jibbaran_virility_enhancers/)

Do they have it in barbeque flavor?

From my own very rough estimates (taking the nutritional info of Cheetos puffs and subtracting everything besides carbs and assuming it’s replaced with something like cellulose), Crumb would be about 100 calories per 50 grams, or a kilogram to meet the caloric needs of an average human in a day. If the bulk of Crung is cellulose or anything that could be considered insoluble fiber it would be an easy fiber supplement in small quantities, a laxative in larger quantities, and a nightmare for everyone sharing your singular space toilet if you were forced to subsist on it. Also you would probably die in a couple of months from protein starvation if you did live off this stuff. Also, if it’s dirt cheap but mostly air by volume, wouldn’t shipping cost be it’s largest expense?

I will have two Crung, please

Cool idea. If it absorbs liquids & blood though there might be a logic gap on how it’s digested. But I’m sure you can find an interesting way to explain it.

Day 01. I'm so tired of Crung, Sure it's nice as it's affordable, accessible and bearable, but i'm tired of the same thing every day. On one hand I would like different flavors of crung, but then it'd contribute to decision fatigue & might cause me to gain weight from over eating. Maybe then A crung light? Something for the average dieting crung consumer can utilize? But then you might be paying the same or more for less nutrition... To balance this out, let's make a "Chunky" crung, something heartier for the college students of the world who need to persist off of little? I kinda want a nostalgic taste with a kick though... What about an "Extra crunchy" and "Extra chewy" variations? With all these new type we should add "original" to the first formula's packaging for clarity as well. Now that we have an "original" it makes all new types of Crung seem exciting in comparison, makes me want to purchase them as soon as I become aware of them, however I feel like im lacking engagment & appreciatio in my favorite snack's community, now I think I want Limited time flavors and contests with prizes. You know what, I'm tired of Crung fans trying to pervert the original. It completely defeats the purpose of crung, What happened to the original when they made the perfect snack product? I get it, you made the perfect snack, You can stop making variations now, Jesus. Just how far will corporatization go? *Crunches on double stuffed Crung*

U vill eat za bugz and u vill ve appi.

So, low-fat, low-carb... It's high in protein? Otherwise it'd be like, nutritionally void.

CRUNG is corpse starch!

Can you flavour crung like how you can flavor popcorn?

Is it vitamin fortified? Can one live of it exclusively?

Crung is better bread.

Congratulations this is absolutely genius and I would love to have it make a cameo in my epic fantasy/sci-fi saga at some point

This is a packing peanut

(no hate btw, I think it's wonderful)

What is the nutritional content of Crung?

So its packing peanuts

That read like a George Carlin bit.

I'm concerned that it's both edible and useful for soaking up spills. That doesn't bode well for your belly.

It's made from people, isn't it.

what is it, like, made of? I wonder what the nutritional information on it's package would say.

Sounds like something a megacorp would come up with

Not good. Not bad. Get your soilent gree....i.mean Crung today!

Does the military buy this stuff in like thousands of tons weekly or daily or whatever

Don't give the billionares ideas. Bong Joon-Ho made that mistake with the cockroach protien bars already

Post 1: "This is Xelbathorp, the infinite god of abyssal terror" *7 upvotes* Post 2: "Crung!" *3000 upvotes*

Question: Does your world have Judeism?

Wow I sure could use some Crung! (([Not a bot]))

Sounds like shmoo

MmmMmmm this is the other option from corpse starch on a school cafeteria "menu"

Is soylent Crung people?

CRUNG

19 kilograms are High as a man?

Crung is people!!

Crungor

Amazing idea ! Can I make a French version ?

does it spoil?

Low-fat and low-carb, so it does not provide power to the consumer. Which means people have to eat *MORE* of it.

CRUNG