Posted on 06/01/2014 8:29:30 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable
I just spent more than a week experiencing Soylent, the most joyless new technology to hit the world since we first laid eyes on MS-DOS.
Soylent is a drink mix invented by a group of engineers who harbor ambitions of shaking up the global food business. Robert Rhinehart, the 25-year-old co-founder and chief executive of the firm selling the drink, hit upon the idea when he found himself spending too much time and money searching for nutritious meals while he was working on a wireless-tech start-up in San Francisco. Using a process Mr. Rhinehart calls “scientific,” the firm claims to have mixed a cornucopia of supplements to form a technologically novel food that offers the complete set of nutrients the human body needs for survival.
You can live on Soylent alone, Mr. Rhinehart claims, though in practice he said customers would most likely use it to replace just their “staple meals,” by which he meant most of the junk you eat every day to fill yourself up. Mr. Rhinehart argued that Soylent, which costs about $3 per serving, is cheaper, easier to prepare and more nutritious than much of the food that makes up the typical American officer worker’s diet today.
About a week and a half ago, I began drinking Soylent every day. I can’t recommend that you do the same. For a purported breakthrough with such grand plans for reshaping the food industry, I found Soylent to be a punishingly boring, joyless product. From the plain white packaging to the purposefully bland, barely sweet flavor to the motel-carpet beige hue of the drink itself, everything about Soylent screams function, not fun.
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“Taste Test: Could Soylent Replace Food?”
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Add some flavoring it could be big for weightless I guess
It supposedly tastes a lot like custard.
That’s not a bad flavour, if you had to eat something.
And that was the last I ever heard of it.
Could be worse I guess
Could it work for emergency military rations, if you had access to a secure water supply?
Surely the website http://soylent.me/ translates into this ...
Yup, they could have named their product so that it rhymed with “toilet.”
Yeah, flesh. Burgers and steaks and ribs oh my ....
Unfortunate choice for a product name.
Yes, yes - to serve man, of course, but are the portions of man really enough to maintain weight?
Will they start to serve women as well at some point, and will the calories per portion be different?
Will the portions of women they serve taste better than the portions of men? As it is now, word on the block is that women taste like fish - at least certain times of month.
It may be “fish Flour”. Raw uncleaned fish ground, dried and processed into a flour like substance.
It was killed when the FDA demanded all the fish be cleaned before processing.
It was the same guy who invented the 100 mpg carburetor. First big oil killed him and then big ag killed him.
Its made out of veterans
Just like Einstein, the mafia
Killed him cause he knew to much.
Charlton— where you been, bro?
I want a case of them green square chips from the body grinding plant, OK?
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