The DAILY PROMPT –
If you could get all the nutrition you needed in a day with a pill — no worrying about what to eat, no food preparation — would you do it?
There once was a pill colored red
That gave me my nourishment instead –
But I’d miss all the flavors, all the crunches I savor
Without food, dear, I’d rather be dead.
So, I’d say NO! I love food- preparing it, eating it, sharing it, and shopping for it (please note the Oxford comma and love it).
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The Mercenary Researcher 
Oh, I could do it!! Do you want to shop and cook for me, Denise? Come on over anytime!
Yes – I would love to be you private chef!! I love do grocery shop – it’s the only shopping I like.
Some days I totally feel like doing the pill, saves time, and probably money as well. But yeah there’s no way I could do it all the time, food is way too fun, a real pleasure 🙂
Rohan.
That’s what makes food great – it is multi-faceted. Not just nourishment.
I love the serial comma and use it all the time. I once wrote a style guide so that people would know how jobs were supposed to be written and styled, and I gave the following example to show proper use of the serial comma, which I think you’ll appreciate:
“I went to the store and bought Rice Krispies, Cap’n Crunch, and Lucky Charms.”
Nobody in my office got it. Peons.
I could never take a pill instead of food. Pills aren’t cannoli, or pasta, or any other foods that are too delicious to give up.
EXACTLY!
Please write a style guide for me. My boss and I found a 1950’s grammar book that had the following example for a comma use
“When the Navy sailor docked at the port, he went to town and really shot his wad”
I still laugh… I guess in the 1950s, it meant ‘spend your money’ …
I can’t imagine anyone in NY or SF choosing a pill over all the GLORIOUS food available… maybe if you lived in Yuma, AZ….
I like cereal for the serial comma 🙂
Oh my God, that grammar book sentence is hilarious. To be fair, either meaning of “shot his wad” is probably appropriate, given what sailors do on shore leave…
I figured after weeks on a sub, he really did shoot his wad – all over himself, most likely.
True. Poor bastard, he needs to build his stamina up again with real women.
I guess Rosie Palm was not the same.
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I would take the pill. I find eating such a chore. Problem is that I’m a toxicologist so would do too much research the sandwich would take less time 🙂
Hee hee…I can’t imagine eating a chore 🙂 – but toxicology might be a chore – and scary when I think about it and what’s IN my food.
Its scarier when you know what’s in your food
I worked in restaurants for years – I think it made me more blasé about germs. You see a lot of 5 second rules –
Germs aren’t the issue 🙂
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No way. Miss cherries and ice cream. No way.
EXACTLY…if they made ICE CREAM that had ALL the nutrition I needed, that would be a very different conversation.
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Great Oxford comma and lyricism. Swallowing a pill reminds me of Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas (though they didn’t eat the food pills, they did deal with Violet Beauregarde after she turned into a blueberry). I prefer mastication and flavour over general subsistence.
MASTICATION!!!!
Nom nom nom.
🙂
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Pills are icky to swallow, so definitely not! Also, keep up the oxford comma!
WHOO HOO FOR OXFORD COMMAS!
I wholeheartedly agree, food is not just about nourishment. No pill could replace it.
I am so in love with your oxford comma right now, you have no idea!
I love your love.
No, I enjoy food way too much for that…especially since today is Taco Tuesday.
whoo hooo!!!
Thanks for the pingback. Definitely agree with your stance on this one.
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I LOVE food! What’s life without food?
And I love the oxford comma. 😉
And I love you!
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I wouldn’t mind if that pill existed, it would solve a heck of a problem, which is not to say that I don’t like food. This might interest you: https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body
I read a post about soylent (it’s people! Hee hee) … I want no sludge shake …
I can’t imagine what would happen to our teeth if we didn’t chew anymore…
They’d invent something for that, too… It’s pretty much non-perishable afaik, and there are people starving in some places, so if it works, I’m all for making this goo.
One person pointed out that in other countries, where starving is happening too much – there’s not a ready supply of clean fresh water – So there are other problems. And a lot of food is out there – but it’s not being sent to the places needed b/c of politics/government not b/c of a general lack of food (as one of the many complexities).
I can’t imagine how it would affect cultures around the world if there were only this gunk to eat –
I remember in an sociology/anthropology class discussing the pros/cons of introducing a new technology on another culture – running water pipes to homes was the example – in an village in a country in Africa – they put in running water and then people noticed that marriages were not occurring and the social fabric of the village had started to crumble because people did all those kinds of things at the water well – so we inflicted our values on another culture without thinking about the ramifications of change.
Not that it could not be beneficial (the goo) but I think that there is not just a magic solyent bullet that will solve the problem – b/c they are so much deeper than what we see on the surface.
Yeah, I’m personally a fan of long-term solutions, sustainability, and self-sufficiency, too, but that doesn’t mean that this stuff would be great to have for short-term needs, say, in refugee camps or in places where weather often diminishes harvest. Might also be handy for space travel…
yes – it has its place but not a replacement – if you know what I mean.
I enjoy eating far too much to skip the process for a pill. And I LOVE the Oxford comma. I refuse to stop using it…
And that’s why I luvs ya,Carrie!
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I like food but I have no appetite and eating enough of the right stuff is a chore. That’s why i’d like a pill to ensure i got the right nutrition, but I’d still like a nice steak dinner or a good bowl of pasta.
No appetite? I can’t even imagine. My boss feels like you do – he’d rather not bother with food and just take the pill.
Does the red pill have ketchup in it?
not one whit.
A pill might be just what I need. It might help me get over my junk food addiction, not to mention freeing up a little time to write a blog.
NO PILL! NO PILL!
You’d never have to do the dishes again!
The only thing in my house that I feel competent cleaning correctly is the kitchen – mostly the dishes… without that – I’d be left to feeling completely incompetent with my skillz
There’s a “correct” way to clean? Good thing the cleaning cops don’t visit me.
Well in correct I mean my efforts have kept people from dying of dysentery.
I know how to settle this. Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall.
Those are different pill. Mind nutrition.
That’s all I’ve got. But I do know it makes cleaning more interesting.
Oh yes, yes it would.
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Love the little poem. 🙂
Thank you ~ I loves me a little limerick.
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Me, too, Denise! Food is one of the most satisfying of art forms – both in the making of it and in the appreciation of it. A pill simply wouldn’t do it for me…
Right ON, Cathy!
Food. It’s about the traditions, flavors, and adventure!
RIGHT! I was just commenting elsewhere that more people seem to want to just take a pill and go…but it would never satisfy us like we think it would – food is more than just nourishment.
It’s totally about traditions, flavors, adventures and CANNOLI!
Amen!
Let’s eat!
Got my spork in hand!
Whoo hooo!