Your multiple choice object reminds me of a dietary supplement. It can help me whatsoever because it contains all the nourishment I need. I guess I would miss the taste of food per se. For example, I would use the nourishment pill in this way: I usually take tomato with olive oil for breakfast every morning. Although it is a good combination to start the day with, I know it doesn't hold all my mind and body needs, so in addition to my breakfast, I will take a nourishment pill to get vitamins, Taurine, Caffeine, etc.

I am not a big fan of eating. I eat a couple of meals a day and sometimes just one. I enjoy 'recreational' meals but mostly eating is drudgery for me. If I could just take a pill I would love that. I told my mum this about 30 years ago. She laughed and told me that my grandfather had made the same point 30 years earlier.

take the pill and eat every now and then — Lionino

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The preparation of food is sometimes rewarding; the cleaning up afterwards is a chore; the acquisition of ingredients is expensive and requires an effort, but not without its good moments.
The sharing of regular, scheduled meals is worth the effort; the pleasure of good food is a bonus. Of course, the pill could be tailored to specific dietary needs - but is it? Dining out on special occasions is something to anticipate and cherish; the odd spontaneous restaurant lunch or picnic outing is fun.
Medication is necessary, but I don't think we could make a daily occasion of taking a pill together.

I'm with Vera on this one.

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Medication is necessary, but I don't think we could make a daily occasion of taking a pill together. — Vera Mont

I don't generally eat meals with others as it happens. My partner and I maintain separate homes - I could never live with someone. Fortunately she feels the same and it has worked for many years. We eat together 2 or 3 times a week.

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Some folks said they wouldn't take the pill. I wonder why :chin: — Lionino

If it was a necessity then obviously everyone would take it, But it is not, therefore why deprive oneself of the pleasures attached to the ritual of eating.

We eat together 2 or 3 times a week. — Tom Storm

Would you still take the pill when you're together?
How about family gatherings at Thanksgiving and Christmas, or social events, like weddings and charity fund-raisers? Or just plain dinner parties with friends and colleagues? So many human bonding rituals are centered on the sharing of food.
Many people would not want a pill, simply because they enjoy eating; some even enjoy cooking, baking and selecting ingredients, never mind the pleasure of growing vegetables and fruit.

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I wanted to imply that you get all the negatives without getting the positives. — Lionino

The negatives are optional. We can choose a wholesome diet and eat in moderation, just as we can choose to imbibe alcoholic beverages in moderation. The positives include far more than physical nourishment. Our bodies are constructed to use food: I wonder what would happen to the digestive system if it were deprived of substantial material to process.

Would you still take the pill when you're together? — Vera Mont

Yes, we often joke about what a drag having to rustle up a lunch is. I can see us popping a pill in the car together then going about our business without the need to disrupt our activities with a sit down meal. Wonderful.

How about family gatherings at Thanksgiving and Christmas, or social events, like weddings and charity fund-raisers? Or just plain dinner parties with friends and colleagues? So many human bonding rituals are centered on the sharing of food. — Vera Mont

Well, I am a little different to some people. I don't generally attend parties or dinners. Last dinner party I went to took place years ago. But I do sometimes go out to a restaurant with a friend. I have already written that I would reserve eating for the occasional 'recreational' meal. So if I wanted to celebrate something with good food, I would happily eat then.

When I said "You can still eat stuff, but it would not give you any needed nourishment and would come with all the negatives of eating", — Lionino

When I said it is not necessary I meant that taking the pill is not necessary because food still is available. So if I am not taking the pill I would still need nourishment even if it came with all the negatives of eating. But it would also have the benefits I mentioned

I wanted to imply that you get all the negatives without getting the positives. — Lionino

You meant to imply but did not do so, so it does not count.

Wouldn't eating then be like smoking or at least like drinking beer? — Lionino

Only if I ate and drank more that I needed excessively. But I would have a shitload more fun doing it than you would swallowing a pill.

So if I wanted to celebrate something with good food, I would happily eat then. — Tom Storm

Wouldn't eating then be like smoking or at least like drinking beer? — Lionino

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Hard to imagine sufficient fat and fiber packed into a pill one could swallow.

Today there are pills to provide the vitamins we need, which leaves just the pesky issue of caloric intake. An adult typically needs about 2000 calories per day, and even the most concentrated source (pure fat) can't make that many calories fit into a single pill.

Another down-side: employers would cut lunch hour to 2 minutes a day.

The benefits being pleasure. — Lionino

That is what life is all about, if you don't enjoy it what is the point of living it.

Or you could take a pill and avoid every downside of eating (bloating, toxins, phytic acid, heavy metals etc). — Lionino

:chin: You forgot to include wear on teeth, wasted time cooking, having to use a truck to take the food to the shop, having to sit down for a few minutes to put food in your mouth, having to take a shit once in a while and probably a whole bunch of other reasons you should not eat. :smirk:

Another down-side: employers would cut lunch hour to 2 minutes a day. — Vera Mont

Ain't that the truth. :rofl:

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True, I remember reading that eating also damages DNA. — Lionino

Sex to, maybe you could come up with a pill to stop the need for that as well.

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I would only eat the pill if I could still get scurvy. It's the only pleasure I have.