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Here's Soylent's New Product. It's Food.
Mr. [Rob] Rhinehart first pitched Soylent to the world with a post titled "How I Stopped Eating Food." Now his successor Mr. [Bryan] Crowley says that Soylent's customers — and everyone else — should definitely keep eating food.
Asked if new customers should consider living solely off Soylent, Mr. Crowley said, "We don't recommend it, no. Absolutely. 100 percent. We don't recommend, not because we don't think it's healthy or we don't think it's there. It's a very difficult thing to do and our research tells us that it happens for a very limited amount of time." (Mr. Rhinehart himself moved the company toward gentler "meal replacement" messaging before stepping down in December 2017, when he announced Mr. Crowley as his own replacement.)
Now Soylent has edged closer to something its customers might recognize as food.
There are other reasons to tell a less provocative story. In 2017, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency informed Soylent that its product didn't meet agency requirements for "meal replacement," which halted the company's expansion in that country. In 2016, the first attempt at solid Soylent — the Food Bar — was quickly pulled from circulation after customers reported vomiting and diarrhea.
The company is working hard to ensure its products are not merely safe to eat, but also tasty and enjoyable. "That's the big word that we talked a lot about," Mr. Crowley said. "Before it was all about function. Original Soylent was function, function, function. Now you hear words like enjoyment in our mission."
Stargate SG-1 s04e01.
Previously: Soylent Halts Sale of Bars; Investigation into Illnesses Continues
Soylent Meal Replacement Sales Blocked in Canada
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Soylent 2.0 is Coming: Food Replacement Premixed in Bottles
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Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints
Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @12:26PM (1 child)
Yummy, frozen spaghetti sauce for dinner again! Only took me three minutes, on average! And that's why I'm looking for something different. :-)
Home made spaghetti sauce, frozen and thawed, is many, many times tastier than fresh-made out of the store sauce. Start with canned, crushed tomatoes, and make your sauce from there.
And the point isn't "must be spaghetti sauce", you're focusing on the wrong part. It is simply, "make your own food". People buy frozen pre-made dinners at the store, instead of making it themselves!
you're not looking at the whole time spent, from shopping through doing dishes.
Yes, I am. But you ignored my times, I guess? imagining they are unrealistic? They're not.
First, you're including "standing around and doing nothing" as part of the cooking process. You don't need to watch a pot boil. Really. You don't. Same for stuff cooking in a pan, and sauce cooking in a pot.
Take the pots out, get stuff in the pots/pans, turn it to the right temp, walk away. Come back in a bit, adjust. As with anything, skills increase over time.
Don't just stand there for 35 minutes watching water boil. Why? Go do other things... don't you have other tasks to do?
And how on earth can it be 15 minutes to cleanup?!
Didn't you read? You don't need to wash the pan you boil noodles in every time... just rinse it out. Frying pans should never have soap applied. They're meant to *stay* greasy. Just hot water, and done.
Another example -- I invited family over for a Turkey meal.. Thanksgiving. A very traditional meal in Canada.
People go on, and on, and on about "oh it takes hours". Wtf?
1) Buy smallest young turkey available
2) Put in fridge
3) Take out night before, put in huge crock pot
4) Put potatoes, carrots, onions around turkey
Walk away!
Next morning -- turkey is done.
Took me all of 30 minutes to prep, cook, AND clean up after that meal. And I had 6 guests!
Cook *smarter*. Eat *smarter*.
Buying crap other people make isn't either of those.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday April 23 2019, @04:45PM
https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-brine-a-turkey-225751 [thekitchn.com]
http://dish.allrecipes.com/how-to-brine-turkey/ [allrecipes.com]
Gotta brine and roast those turkeys.
Throwing smoked turkey into a pot of beans is also good.
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