NASA funds design for a food replicator

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2. What will taste and texture be like? (Prepare for your food to become crappier.)

Those poor kids who think that the "orange-juice" at the store is what orange-juice is supposed to taste like.
Those poor teenagers who are okay with eating nothing but fast-food.
Those poor adults who regard microwave-food as decent in taste.

This is just the next step:
Pressed bits that look like plastic, chew like half-cooked noodles and taste like chemical E342? Yummy.
You get ever worse quality and you learn to accept it as the new normal.

Cooking and eating connect the human, his consciousness and his body, to the outside world, to nature and society.
We abandon those connections at our own peril.