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Current time: April 29, 2024, 1:21 pm

Poll: How often (if at all) would you consume Soylent?
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Frequently
10.00%
1 10.00%
Occasionaly
30.00%
3 30.00%
Never.
60.00%
6 60.00%
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Soylent (Food Substitute)
#11
RE: Soylent (Food Substitute)
I don't know anything about the product but:

a.) Worst name ever for a serious food product.
b.) How are they not getting sued by MGM?
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
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#12
RE: Soylent (Food Substitute)
Well I for one am very intrigued. I wouldn't use it as a substitute all the time, my wife is an amazing cook, plus steak gives me hard on, but I can easily see myself using this frequently when I just don't feel like bothering with anything else.

It's healthier than going through a fast food drive thru.

Fuck yeah! Where has this shit been all my adult life?

PS: I love the book "Make Room! Make Room!" so I'm adding green food coloring dye to mine!
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#13
RE: Soylent (Food Substitute)
I don't think there'll be much more than a niche market for this in the developed world. The greenfreaks, the new-age yuppies, and maybe the extremely poor... Maybe if they market it to the third world but they'd have to sell it for pennies on the dollar. Something tells me this company isn't gonna just give it away for charity or anything. They're selling but I'm not buying. "There's lots of starving people in the world!" Ok, so...what, do you think eating a food substitute is gonna suddenly make us start growing crops for the sake of just giving them to the third world? Uh, yeah...good luck getting farmers to do backbreaking agricultural work year-round for charity...

This is a company saying "we want to make something that will cost us nothing and will have a huge profit margin, while making it sound like we're really doing this for the good of everyone!"

And, really? 2,000,000 people die every year from inhaling smoke from ovens? Did they forget to mention that's in developing countries where they use high-carbon-output stoves, like wood-burning and coal-burning ones still? Yes, they did. Now if they wanna solve that problem by marketing to those people...hey, more power to 'em.

But something tells me that's not the intended audience...the wording and verbiage in the article comes off as an attempt to guilt-trip the rich westies into buying this stuff cuz there's people in the world starving.

I'm sorry, but I'm not feeling any guilt at all. My country and my ancestors had the common sense to develop agricultural practices and to unite and to shake off stupid tribal beliefs and advance. If there's a bunch of people in the world who didn't? Sorry, but how is that my fault? Answer: It isn't. It sucks that there's starvation problems across the globe, but something tells me this isn't the answer to the problem. Those people are all impoverished as fuck. They can't even afford WATER. Anyone really thinks they're gonna be able to afford some corporate priced food alternative? Uh...haha...yeah...sure...

I wouldn't eat this shit. I'm a born chef. I won't even touch tofu because I find it to be an insult to the shit it attempts to replace [in all realms; flavor, consistency, nutrients, and smell]. This stuff? Fuck no.
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#14
RE: Soylent (Food Substitute)
Why do you think we've been fattening up americans!

Mwah Ha Ha



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#15
RE: Soylent (Food Substitute)
(July 1, 2013 at 1:14 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Why do you think we've been fattening up americans!

Mwah Ha Ha

ROFLOL By atheismo, it all makes sense now!
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