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Boom times in Silicon Valley call for hard work, and hard work — at least in technology land — means that coders, engineers and venture capitalists are turning to liquid meals with names like Schmoylent, Soylent, Schmilk and People Chow. The protein-packed products that come in powder form are inexpensive and quick and easy to make — just shake with water, or in the case of Schmilk, milk. While athletes and dieters have been drinking their dinner for years, Silicon Valley's workers are now increasingly chugging their meals, too, so they can more quickly get back to their computer work.
Demand for some of the powdered drinks, which typically mix nutrients like magnesium, zinc and vitamins, is so high that some engineers report being put on waiting lists of one to six months to receive their first orders. And the drinks are taking off across techie social circles. Venture capitalists have also poured money into the companies that offer the meal replacements, and investors including Alexis Ohanian, a founder of Reddit, count themselves as fans of the drinks.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday May 27 2015, @02:56PM
If cooking and eating is the most interesting, exciting thing you could do in that hour, then good for you. However, some of us would occasionally like to be able to just stop being hungry and carry on with whatever we were doing.
It's not the most interesting thing I could do with my time. But I still consider it time well spent. It gives me a break from what I was doing and it helps me to be productive for the rest of my waking hours.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday May 27 2015, @05:08PM
I don't know... a few quick shakes and an extra 45 minutes of sex sounds like a pretty appealing alternative...
In all seriousness though: I enjoy cooking, especially with a partner, but find myself often eating a less-than-ideal diet out of convenience, distraction, etc. If they could develop a soylent that could be substituted for real food on a as-wanted basis, rather than requiring weeks of intestinal adaptation to avoid flatulence, I would likely keep a stockpile. I suspect I'd even increase the number of good meals I cooked if I didn't have the negative association of "just get some fuel in the tank as quickly as possible" cooking clouding the issue. Real food when I'm interested in food, soylent when my body just needs fuel.
Plus, with soylent trying to be a scientifically optimal food source, it's probably far more nutritionally complete than anything I cook for myself. After all, there's a world of difference between the adequate nutrition that keeps my body from degenerating, and a truly optimal solution. After all our bodies evolved to eat wild plants and game, not the flavorless meat-pudding and spongy franken-vegetables we've bred in the last few thousand years in the name of ever-increasing yields.
(Score: 2) by Tramii on Wednesday May 27 2015, @07:49PM
I don't know... a few quick shakes and an extra 45 minutes of sex sounds like a pretty appealing alternative...
So, we are supposed to believe there is someone out who has to choose between eating meals and sex? Like they have enough time for one but not the other? Like they totally could have sex, but they just don't have the time and if only they could free up some time they would totally have loads of sex.
Right. Sure. Uh huh.
(Score: 1) by KGIII on Wednesday May 27 2015, @11:03PM
I dunno? Maybe that dude that was over 1000 pounds? The scary thing is he has a wife and she was the one who kept feeding him. Aside: He has since had a stomach bypass and lost half his bodyweight.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."