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Get Your Ass To Mars Burger (#112)

Our March movie this year was 1990's Total Recall, staring Arnold Schwarzenegger. This sci-fi action film plays with concepts about what's real and what's not and is a great adventure flick. I struggled to come up with a dinner concept for this film, because there aren't really any dinner scenes in the movie, other than an opening scene where Arnold's character is eating a protein shake for breakfast.  Then I found these pictures:  As part of the Venusville set on Mars, they had created a fake restaurant across the street from The Last Resort called Mars Burger. It is only visible in a few shots of the film, but the crew used it for a photo op and you can see that in these pics. This got me really thinking. What would a fast food chain on this version of Mars even look like? In this film, Venusville is full of mutants and humans just struggling to survive. They're very limited resources. Even oxygen is a valuable and limited asset. So what kind of food would be ...

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