Why food will never be removed

[Fishman]

Well you see stone soup is a kind of food because you eat soup you don't drink it since you use a spoon.

You can't remove the stone soup because then it would only be dungeon crawl and that would be like

a forest without a tree
a house without rooms
a fish out of water

it's just not going to work

[BugHunter]

I just checked my character's inventory, and he doesn't have a spoon. So your argument must be incorrect.

[Zooty]

Dungeon crawl: Stone smoothie

[Dharmy]

I use a fork.

[Pollen_Golem]

There's more than one way to consume a soup.

[tasonir]

That is more intense eye contact than I am comfortable with.

[Eyesburn]

There's more than one way to consume a soup.

thats an ancient yoga technique to clean sinuses, called jala neti, it is not way to eat a soup

[Croases]

The proverbial stone soup was made possible only because of an initial ingredient that served no role by itself. Food plays this role in DCSS. Just as there would be no stone soup without that initial stone, there would be no DCSS without food.

People who claim that food is "pointless and should be removed" are missing the point, food is in fact the most fundamental element in Crawl's game design. By serving no purpose, it allows other design elements to serve their purpose.