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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the this-isn't-us dept.

Because, disturbingly, there is an actual product called Soylent, and this is news about it.

From The Verge:

Rosa Foods, announced Wednesday it has signed a deal to get Soylent in 450 of the big box stores across the US. Soylent CEO Bryan Crowley says the move is, "a significant step in providing more ways for consumers to get access to our brand." Walmart locations will stock the ready-to-drink bottles in "Cacao," "Vanilla Latte," and "Coffiest" flavors.

By the way, Soylent was only "people" in the movie. In the original book, "Make Room, Make Room" by Harry Harrison, Soylent was just vegetable matter. Leave it to Hollywood to screw a good SF story up. [ed.]


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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.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:37AM (5 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:37AM (#667868) Homepage Journal

    SOYLENT GREEN IS NUTRITIOUS

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    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:21AM (#667882)

      STOP ME BEFORE I POST AGAIN

      Call the suicide hotline for assisted suicide.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by EvilSS on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:45AM

      by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:45AM (#667892)
      They used to insert green bottles randomly in cases when they first started shipping their liquid version.
    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:57AM (1 child)

      by SomeGuy (5632) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:57AM (#667902)

      Soylent: IT'S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!

      • (Score: 2) by Webweasel on Tuesday April 17 2018, @11:36AM

        by Webweasel (567) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @11:36AM (#667991) Homepage Journal

        Welcome to costco, I love you.

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    • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:00AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:00AM (#667903)

      Add it to your hosts file ;)

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:47AM (5 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:47AM (#667872) Journal

    If you add chocolate flavor to it, isn't it just the cool, hip Silicon Valley version of Ensure, the meal drink for geriatrics?

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    [SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
    • (Score: 3, Informative) by julian on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:59AM (4 children)

      by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:59AM (#667924)

      They do make a chocolate flavored one. They're not bad products, actually. It's more nutritionally balanced than Ensure, with less carbs and more protein, more calories from fat. It's still a little too heavy on the added sugar for how I plan my diet, but if you're low/no carb the rest of the day then having one for breakfast isn't bad. It's probably better than what a lot of people get; donuts or a white-bread bagel with their coffee. I drink the coffee flavored one for breakfast most days, it has caffeine too.

      • (Score: 2) by julian on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:15AM

        by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:15AM (#667929)

        It's still a little too heavy on the added sugar for how I plan my diet...

        I meant too much sugar to be a "total" food replacement like the founder was trying to achieve. And I think that's a stupid goal anyway, I love food too much. Good food is one of the great pleasures of the human experience and I don't think you should be cutting that out to spend more time at your desk. But to each his own

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @04:54AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @04:54AM (#667954)

        More soy too! to keep your soyboy level to maximum! If only they mixed in some essential oils, you could increase 2 cup sizes a week.

        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:46PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:46PM (#668048)

          Meh. Doesn't really work unless you also use a suction device....

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @06:13PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @06:13PM (#668217)

          Now I know manboobs can be a very sensitive topic, but if you just go on a proper diet and start working your upper body a bit you can get rid of those hormone induced lactating titties.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:02AM (2 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:02AM (#667877) Journal

    I thought they recalled this sh*t?
    Or bad memory?
    Is my hard drive faulty?

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    --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
    • (Score: 4, Informative) by pbnjoe on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:14AM

      by pbnjoe (313) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:14AM (#667880) Journal

      No, you're right, and they did it more [wikipedia.org] than once [arstechnica.com].

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday April 17 2018, @05:13PM

      by Freeman (732) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @05:13PM (#668187) Journal

      They recalled it, but that didn't kill their business. Similar to how Bluebell ended up having to recall a bunch of product.

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      Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
  • (Score: 4, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:25AM (7 children)

    from the this-isn't-us dept.

    Speak for yourselves. I arrive at Wal-Mart at least a couple times a week.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 3, Touché) by edIII on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:54AM (6 children)

      by edIII (791) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:54AM (#667899)

      1) You're a bastard then. Nobody should support that terrible company.

      ... on a lighter note ...

      2) We need to visit the PeopleOfWalmart.com and have fun finding out which one you are :)

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      Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:09AM (3 children)

        1) You realize you just advocated putting millions of people who are barely scraping by to begin with out of work entirely, yes?
        2) Go for it. Check the one in Humboldt, TN. If you can find one doing the Thriller zombie dance through the groceries because it was playing over the speakers, that'll be me.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 5, Funny) by Fluffeh on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:07AM (1 child)

          by Fluffeh (954) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:07AM (#667928) Journal

          find one doing the Thriller zombie dance through the groceries because it was playing over the speaker

          I'm not sure how to distinguish that person from the other people folks in the store. From what I've seen, one person's "Thriller" is another person's "Just-had-my-hips-replaced" and yet another's "Man-this-meth-is-amazing".

          *sips coffee*

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 17 2018, @05:23AM

          by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @05:23AM (#667955) Homepage Journal

          We did the biggest Tax Cut in history. To create millions of jobs. But Walmart closed so many stores. They didn't call them Walmart, they called them Sam's Club. But it's Walmart. It's the elite Walmart. Let me tell you, that was a slap to my face. And to the faces of our hard-working Republicans in Congress. They closed 63 stores around our great Country. And in Puerto Rico.

          Walmart pays little or no taxes to state & local governments. And they're putting many thousands of retailers out of business.

          And now they're selling latte, the vanilla Soylent latte. The official food of the Democratic Party. It's not the official food. But it should be. Crooked Hillary was on their board (with John Tate, who said unions are nothing but blood-sucking parasites). I'm sure she's laughing right now. Like she laughed when her radical Islamic friends stabbed Colonel Gaddafi in the ass & he died. That VERY SCARY laugh of hers. And the coastal elites and global special interests are laughing with her. At the "carnage." Sad!

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:49AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:49AM (#667922)

        I'd like to remind you that not everyone has the luxury to pay more so they won't be supporting such a "terrible company".

        Not that a reminder will change your attitude, since you clearly have already judged those that shop at Walmart as inferior to yourself. Does ridiculing them really make you feel better about yourself?

        • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 17 2018, @05:44AM

          by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @05:44AM (#667957) Homepage Journal

          For too long, Walmart has been bringing terribly made foreign merchandise to our Country by the shipload. From Bush Original to present, our Country has lost more than 55,000 factories, 6,000,000 manufacturing jobs and accumulated Trade Deficits of more than 12 Trillion Dollars. Last year we had a Trade Deficit of almost 800 Billion Dollars. Bad Policies & Leadership. Sorry, it’s time for a change! We must protect our country and our workers. When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country (🇨🇳) and they get cute, don’t trade anymore. We win big. It’s easy! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:32AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:32AM (#667937)

    Just who are the sort that buy this shit that Walmart stocks it?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @11:43AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @11:43AM (#667992)

      Just who are the sort that buy this shit that Walmart stocks it?

      Explainer video [youtube.com]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:50PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:50PM (#668052)

        Soy is overrated. Fennel and lavender oils are more effective.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:52PM (#668144)

    Only green was people. Others were plant life.

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