>...I read that as the year at first and was about to ask if the Great
>Soup Wars of the 2200s wiped out pho as we know it.
>
>Also, came here to post basically the same complaint, except it's a
>quarter past four in the morning. Curse this nocturnal schedule.

Tony Bourdain would not allow Pho to die out on his watch, not if he has to wash and boil the bones himself. Don't be silly and think even for a moment that it would vanish from the universe.