Feeding tube follies.

I saw a news item yesterday that mentioned how his holy eminence, the Pope, had gotten with the latest craze and was being fed through a tube. Amazing.

How long before one walks into a restaurant, sits at a table, and just plugs a tube into one's feeding port? Then you pay in gas station-like fashion, either just for a snack or after filling 'er up.

Celebrity endorsements ("Richard Gere swears by the Feed-O!"); designer colors and tube assemblages; Mexican and Thai liquid food formulas (even a McDonald's drip - hey they're practically there already).

Why not?