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

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 Gaaark on Friday May 30 2014, @03:51PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday May 30 2014, @03:51PM (#49189) Journal

    That's what i like about the linux command line... it's a better DOS than DOS (although DR-DOS was a better DOS than MS-DOS).

    And rice cakes with peanut butter and honey is even cheaper for breakfast... mmmm... styrofoam.... (Homer drool)

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday May 30 2014, @08:33PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday May 30 2014, @08:33PM (#49286) Homepage Journal

    I, too, preferred DrDos, and FreeDOS as well. It, too was superior to MS's OS.

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