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posted by takyon on Tuesday August 04 2015, @01:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-meta dept.

The food replacement Soylent is now hitting 2.0. The new version will come premixed in bottled liquid form instead of powder, though the powdered version will still exist. It will cost $12 per day, as opposed to $9 per day for the powder. The liquid and powder versions will have slightly different compositions.

In other Soylent news (pun intended), Soylent products will now be shipping in two to three days instead of the multi-month waits previously due to overwhelming demand relative to supply.

takyon: Soylent blog post and The Register.


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  • (Score: 2) by MrNemesis on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:39AM

    by MrNemesis (1582) on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:39AM (#217820)

    Is preparing and eating regular food, as opposed to a nutritious gloop, really so burdensome? As another poster pointed out, $12 a day is plenty for simple staples and fresh veg, at least where I shop anyway, and have the benefit of taste and texture.

    Other dietary staples have historically been problematic. For example, Spanish paella, despite producing a mouth-watering aroma that wafts across the room when steaming hot, contains shellfish, to which many people are allergic. Soylent does not. Similarly, while a lentil stew made with onion, garlic, tomatoes, spinach, mint, parsley, and potatoes might be a valid form of vegetarian nutrition, it still requires chewing. Soylent has solved this problem.

    Are there really people so on-the-go they can't spend 5 minutes chopping a handful of veg and simmering them with some passata for 20 minutes whilst the pasta cooks? Then again from the Ars blogatorial someone else posted the guy behind this seems to be offended by the idea of kitchens (except when they're attached to one of the restaurants he frequents I guess) and I don't think I'm mentally equipped to deal with such "not in Kansas anymore" viewpoints.

    Anyway that Reg article and all this talk of non-food has left me hungry. There should be a new SN poll recommending me some interesting dishes...

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 04 2015, @09:42AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 04 2015, @09:42AM (#217843) Journal

    and have the benefit of taste and texture.
    ...
    There should be a new SN poll recommending me some interesting dishes...

    A blue-rare 2 pounds 18 days dry aged rump steak, forget the chips and salad - flavour and texture, good exercise for the masseters as well.

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  • (Score: 1) by miljo on Tuesday August 04 2015, @01:36PM

    by miljo (5757) on Tuesday August 04 2015, @01:36PM (#217904) Journal

    +1

    The earth is full of delicious plants and animals, and we can be chemists and artists in our kitchens and combine delicious plants and animals into culinary delights. Why would you want to forgo that for snot in a bottle?

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    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @09:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @09:24PM (#218786)

      I live with someone with OCD.

      She will one day burn the house down, or die of a heart attack, worrying about if the stove is off.

      She cannot cut vegetables without counting endlessly. She can use the same knife to cut into a pot roast or something without issue.

      To all the people that don't get why food preparation is such a bother, consider that you are mentally healthy and at peace with the concept.

      As for me? Just to reduce the amount of problems, I typically order out and get things like... cereal in a box. lunch meat. pasta in a box. Anything that is dump-and-run, as otherwise she will be unable to eat it, and instead will eat from bags of chips and ice cream so that she feels full.

      Something like soylent is a great for her, but it's not the only liquid meal we've tried... soylent is among the least expensive, though.

      Remember, your 5 minutes doing something is her two hours and still not having eaten, her arms are sore from the same actions, the fact that she cant even cut the vegetables any more and its just a repeated action at that point... and that she's become incredibly frustrated and irritable because wow she hasn't eaten yet. And she's fat, because of the eating habits I described.

      Tell me how to make it better (yes, she sees a doctor) and you win a free internet from me. The least you can do is let her drink the "snot" in peace.

       

  • (Score: 2) by Nollij on Friday August 07 2015, @12:27AM

    by Nollij (4559) on Friday August 07 2015, @12:27AM (#219341)

    Is preparing and eating regular food, as opposed to a nutritious gloop, really so burdensome? As another poster pointed out, $12 a day is plenty for simple staples and fresh veg, at least where I shop anyway, and have the benefit of taste and texture.

    I'm betting you either have less than average obligations/responsibilities, or do not prepare your own food 3x/day, every single day. The time certainly adds up - as does the time/energy spent trying to keep things interesting. I'm not saying that this is the answer, but there is certainly something attractive about being able to simply grab something on the go. The amount of junk/fast food sold suggests that A LOT of people just want something fast and cheap. I actually looked into Soylent a while back, as a substitute for the breakfast bars I was eating. Now that it's more available, I'll have to check again. This would be healthier and cheaper than the alternatives. But the one thing that it cannot be, and has never claimed to be, is a replacement for the taste. If you are eating for flavor, this is not for you. If you are simply eating to put nutrients in your body, then it might be for you.

    • (Score: 2) by MrNemesis on Friday August 07 2015, @12:12PM

      by MrNemesis (1582) on Friday August 07 2015, @12:12PM (#219530)

      My partner and I eat out maybe twice a week (usually at least once at the pub on a weekday evening and maybe at a restaurant at the weekend), the rest of the time I prepare my own food, yes. Fruit in the morning (zero time) or maybe a bowl of cereal when I get into work, sandwiches for lunch (about 10mins to make) or perhaps leftovers from yesterday, proper meal in the evening - prep time for which depends entirely on the meal but in most cases means about half an hour of work when one isn't available to do anything else. More complicated meals like a roast dinner might mean an hour of prep. Weekends we can go to town a bit more if we've got time and do more complicated stuff. Full english breakfast always a particular highlight.

      Not really sure what less than average obligations are, we're both full-time workers spending 10-12 hours out of the house a day but I don't have kids so I guess that makes things easier. But even so a single cook can scale up a meal to three or four times the size whilst expending maybe only 1.5x the time. Perhaps it's a generational/upbringing thing? I was brought up cooking my own stuff from a very early age yet even then there were plenty of people in my home ec classes at school that had clearly never cooked anything in their lives.

      I can understand people wanting something fast and cheap... I'm just perplexed as why people would want to pick a mostly tasteless nutritious gloop. As you say it's clearly not designed for me, but then for me life with only nutrients and no flavour would be a depressing one indeed.

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