What do you think if they change the food/consumable to per click only. Say when you double click a food, it won’t perish until the time that it exist expire and you can pause and remove the boon time if you want it. Say if you are doing WvWvW, you double click a food then it activates and when you decide to zone out of WvWvW and go to LA, you double click the food again and it will pause/remove its effect and still you still have the item, with the remaining time on the food. if the food duration expires, the item vanishes.
Prolly ascended food is good to have this feature. So yes to ascended food. yes to food treadmill!