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You don't have to enjoy cooking to enjoy a well-made meal. That's why restaurants exist, after all. Lots of people are perfectly happy to let someone else do the hard work in the kitchen.

If you actually don't enjoy good food, then considering how important culinary arts have been to humans for all of recorded history, I'd say there's something wrong with you.

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I enjoy good food but that's it. I don't assign a higher purpose to it. A lot of things that were important historically are now gone.

If you enjoy eating "good food" (whatever you define that as, since it depends on your taste), that's normal for a human. You don't have to attach a "higher purpose" to it, but it's something that's been important to humans since forever. We have taste buds for a reason, and eating tasty food isn't going to fall out of favor ever, unless humans somehow change into something non-human.

That last sentence feels like a personal attack. I'm not sure why this is so important to you. You write about recorded history, but there is a vast majority of humans who has never written or at least not about food, so I don't know, maybe food hasn't always been important for everyone, we don't really know.

Nowadays, we also have the stress of a capitalist system to deal with, plus processed food we eat since our childhood, which for a lot of people "break" food for them, since they get used to the sugar rush, and normal food tasted "boring" or "bland".

What I mean is, I know plenty of well adjusted people who don't enjoy "good food", and that's OK.

I probably didn't word it that well; I meant that if you don't enjoy eating food that you like the taste of, there's something wrong with you. It's a normal human thing to like to eat, and to eat things you think are tasty. Unfortunately, modern low-quality unhealthy foods are engineered to be tasty, but this doesn't mean there's something seriously wrong with people who like them. I didn't mean "good food" as only high-quality, nutritious food, just something you like to eat and enjoy eating, even if it isn't that healthy.

The people who really have something wrong with them here are those who actually don't enjoy eating any food, and see it strictly as a biologically-necessary chore. Those are the people who seem to be attracted to Soylent. Yes, I really do think there's something wrong with these people.

> Those are the people who seem to be attracted to Soylent.

Maybe if you're only eating Soylent but the vast majority are simply people who don't want to cook for one reason or another. I eat Huel a few times a week and I really like it. I also think it's pretty tasty but most of all it's convenient.

Yeah, I'm not talking about people who just want something convenient and nutritious when they're in a hurry, I'm talking about extremists who genuinely don't like eating anything ever and treat it like needing to use a toilet.

It’s died down a bit now, but 5-10 years ago there was a very vocal group of people that insisted on only having shakes and that food/cooking was outdated.

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