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Why aren't there instant mashed sweet potatoes? Add boiling water and stir up a batch of yammy, maple-y goodness. It would become an instant dorm room and office kitchen staple! For that matter, why isn't there hot butterscotch mix? Like hot cocoa, only scotchie-flavored. I know about Tom & Jerry batter, but that's not what I mean. I want to be able to buy a box depicting Swiss Miss wearing a kilt! "Instant" foods have long been derided by foodies as something less than what you should put in your mouth, but I think these people simply lack creativity. Instant tomato soup may taste like powdery mush on its own, but add a vacu-sealed package of smoked salmon, half a packet of ramen seasoning, and two or three thimbles of half and half, and you've got a decent bisque constructed of breakroom basics. Not exactly haute cuisine, but better than the coin-op wheels of death. What makes a better dessert---an 80-cent package of Pop Tarts (a "treat" David Letterman once noted could be affixed with a stamp and mailed without any change in flavor) or the add-water-and-nuke indulgence of Betty Crocker Warm Delights? It's time to re-think instant food. Just because the astronauts took it to the moon doesn't mean we can't turn it into some of the best stuff on Earth.