Ketchup

A child scratches a spacecraft in the dust, He does not call it a 'spacecraft' because it is 1911. The Colt Firearm Company has patented the first reliable semi-automatic pistol; it does not look like any other handgun. Decades earlier, Karl Drais invents the meat-chopping machine. Delmonico's has long served breakfast steaks. All at once and singularly, an ethnic sandwich becomes the 'hamburger'. New shapes feed bodies and minds; inevitably, there are consequences. ideas are left over - like ketchup. Meat fueled notions activate ray-guns; cattle are mutilated in Idaho. In front of his Osaka home, the boy drops his stick, stares open-mouthed at the dirt. Things get messy. Mushrooms and red sauce. Millions of people are annihilated by atomic meat-chopping machines. The boy survives, has a son of his own. The child finds a way to contain the machines inside a computer-game called, 'Space Invaders'. Tomohiro Nishikado does not like ground meat. Ketchup is now often dispensed in small packets. It is eaten with fast food while playing war-games. Unfortunately, there is residue, ideas escape. Flatulent cows cause a global warming; civilization cannot eat them fast enough. New improved meat-chopping machines are activated by computers; there is collateral ketchup. The 1911 colt pistol is still popular.