Soylent - the end of food

see when you buy new clothes? they're not clean

people like this are a useful cautionary tale for those who are overly proud of their work ethic, burrowing to nowhere with maxiumum efficiency

conrad has hit on the innocuous detail that bugs me the most about this

Like, dude, you did not achieve an objectively better existence than others because you figured out how to spend more time on devops with Docker. You just figured out how to trade off food truck sandwich time and laundry folding time to, uh, write fresh devops scripts. That's it.

I wish I could fit this on a t-shirt

Soylent offers vomiting customers refunds on nutrient bars: https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/786650723274547200

Weird, that article seems to have disappeared. Here's another one:

http://gizmodo.com/soylent-customers-search-for-answers-after-barf-bar-fia-1787747966

I feel bad for these folks though.

eat larabars instead, they taste good and dont make u vomit

nobody should ever eat bar-shaped food except when it's candy

hmm wow strong if inconsistent opinion re food shape

Stick shaped food is a totally different story

20% of my diet is clif bars.

food should be cylindrical and heated on metal rollers

gotta love soylent's ongoing commitment to disrupting the food space tho: first their drink made you ill slowly with dangerously high levels of cadmium and lead and now their food just straight-up gives you the rusty-water shits

finding new efficiencies by closing the loop, since iirc the latter is actually one of the core ingredients in their signature product

the reports that it smelled/tasted like bleach or soap makes me think... people were eating food machine sanitizer

xp next step is a food replacement pill that kills it's users stone dead instantly. No more need for food!

SOYLENT GREEN IS PURELL

http://www.heavymetal.com/v2/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/SoylentGreen.jpg

maintaining normal food safety standards is exactly the kind of drag on innovation that characterizes the old fashioned brick and mortar economy. they're disruptive, get with the program.

facebook is always recommending huel to me

can i buy vomit inducing soylent bricks w bitcoin this is important

i got banned from seeing huel's ads on facebook cuz I kept trolling them about whether their product was as dangerous to human health as soylent

one of my proudest achievements tbh

kudos

SOYLENT GREEN IS PURELL

― doo-doo diplomacy (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, October 16, 2016 12:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

i'm hesitant to out myself here, but i feel like soylent doesn't deserve half the shit people give it (excluding puke bars of course). i drink a soylent 2.0 once a week as a meal replacement on the gym night where i have to go after dinner cuz i don't like having food in my stomach. i looked into slimfast or carnation meal replacements but they don't have enough calories. also i like the taste of soylent (somewhere in between pancake batter and cheerios)

sure the rhetoric about food 2.0 and the idea of replacing all your meals with it is completely insane, but i think it has some merit as a good meal replacement option.

by posting your tolerance of soylent here, you have made all other food taste bad for other people and also permanently enlisted yourself into the new revolution alien spacefood corporation army, which is on a collision course with the the normal food-eaters of earth and must be destroyed before their 1.15x productivity bonus compounds enough to overwhelm the old-timers that retain the ability to enjoy the taste of a well-cooked meal

i still have never tried soylent

your new name is D502_copy

yeah i mean youre just using soylent like a meal replacement/protein shake which is basically what it is which is why it really doesnt justify all its bs marketing and vc funding which is what ppl r making fun of it for xxp

fwiw this is the best tasting prepackaged protien shake ive had

http://i.imgur.com/y8FFTAk.jpg

whats funny is because soylent is vc funded by ppl who usually invest in apps its doomed to go out of business once those ppl realize theyve invested in a protein shake not an 10000000x multiplier unicorn

i mean there are a fuckload of similar products available mostly made by experienced food companies, but only one of them has super creepy marketing and frequent contamination issues

will def try those shakes ^

only 260 calories to soylents 400 fwiw

I eat like one kirkland protein bar a day - they are strangely good and bad at the same time. They aren't quite complete nutrition in the sense of having all the vitamins and whatever you supposedly need, but they do have a good amount of both protein and fiber.

i like larabars a lot, tho havent been eating them recently, its just fruit and nuts!

yeah those are actually tasty, more on the clif bar end of the taste <-> high protein spectrum

i used to do an odwalla / fruit smoothie for meal replacement

xp Wait Soylent is only 400 calories? The Naked juice protein shake is about at that and is pretty decent.

yah or Odwalla, pretty much any of the decent fruit smoothie brands

whats funny is because soylent is vc funded by ppl who usually invest in apps its doomed to go out of business once those ppl realize theyve invested in a protein shake not an 10000000x multiplier unicorn

― lag∞n, Monday, October 17, 2016 12:02 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is what totally killed me about the vegan mayo scammer people that were buying up stores worth of their product to artificially inflate the numbers -- people actually like their product! I figured it was hot garbage and the sales were all fake, but a few food review people really like it. It's just that there's no exponential growth curve for selling fake mayonnaise.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-28/soylent-will-stop-selling-two-meal-products-and-rework-formula-after-illnesses

"stomach-related symptoms"

I just had a tooth extracted and I guess I'll try to survive the very soft foods only period with Soylent and maybe tomato or butternut squash soup to break the misery.

Life with my daughter showed me that a surprisingly wide array of foods can be successfully puréed. (But pasta isn't one of them.)

Eeee i bet.

Good time to get into congee! Maybe with some pumpkin! Kinda jealous tbh.