Imagine if you never had to worry about food again? Imagine if you never had to spend all that time grocery shopping, making the food, eating it with your family and friends, and then cleaning it up? You wouldn't even have to chew your food. That's what the makers of a new product called Soylent hope to do for you.

According to The New York Times, Soylent offers a "mixed cornucopia of supplements to form a technologically novel food that offers the complete set of nutrients the human body needs for survival." Just zip it open and drink—the same meal over and over again. Sure, it makes food easy and fast, but what's missing from this scenario? Well, aside from the creepy name (Does anyone remember that 70s sci-fi film Soylent Green?), it divorces eating from community.

The folks at Front Porch Republic ask, "Is eating [just] a problem demanding a solution? It's difficult to imagine how mixing a powder in a blender would prove conducive to gathering at a common table to eat a meal." Besides, this Soylent stuff just isn't fun. As the article notes, "Soylent's creators have forgotten a basic ingredient found in successful tech products, not to mention in most good foods. That ingredient is delight."

Possible Preaching Angle:

Ah, delight. That ingredient needs to be found in our meals, in our worship, and in our celebration of the Lord's Supper.