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NYTimes Pans Soylent (the Food, not This Site)

posted by martyb on Friday May 30 2014, @09:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the needs-a-spoonful-of-sugar? dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

Some soylentils have an interest in the Soylent food product, which claims to be complete, scientifically-based nutrition. Now Farhad Manjoo at the New York Times has spent a week and a half living off of it, and found it disappointing:

I just spent more than a week experiencing Soylent, the most joyless new technology to hit the world since we first laid eyes on MS-DOS.

Read the rest at the NYT: The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by nightsky30 on Friday May 30 2014, @11:42AM

    by nightsky30 (1818) on Friday May 30 2014, @11:42AM (#49103)

    They might taste better, and I think anyone would choose something different for their last meal, but you are getting vastly different nutrients in each of these meals. MREs are designed for high caloric intake, and instant ramen is cheap, loaded with sodium chloride, and designed for an early heart attack. Soylent is meant to fill a complete nutritional niche.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 30 2014, @12:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 30 2014, @12:03PM (#49112)

    and instant ramen is cheap, loaded with sodium chloride, and designed for an early heart attack.

    While it may well cause an early heart attack, I strongly doubt that was a design goal.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 30 2014, @01:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 30 2014, @01:45PM (#49143)

      Whoooosh!

      • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday May 30 2014, @02:14PM

        by tangomargarine (667) on Friday May 30 2014, @02:14PM (#49154)

        Whoosh yourself. That was funny.

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