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NYTimes Pans Soylent (the Food, not This Site)

posted by martyb on Friday May 30 2014, @09:14AM   
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.

• Re:that's the whole premise isn't it? Re:that's the whole premise isn't it? (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.

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• Re:that's the whole premise isn't it? Re:that's the whole premise isn't it? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 30 2014, @01:45PM

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

  Whoooosh!

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  • Re:that's the whole premise isn't it? (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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