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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: 2) by EvilJim on Friday May 30 2014, @10:10PM

  by EvilJim (2501) on Friday May 30 2014, @10:10PM (#49330) Journal

  ha, ms-dos joyless? maybe now, but back then, shit I was enthralled, never really got the hang of cp/m (or the version they used on Amstrads) and manually flicking switches or wiring up a programmed board, now that was joyless as it was unlikely to ever work right first time ;) my breakfast is far cheaper than that too, currently I'm doing a discount energy drink or two, 20-40c a day when bought in a pack of 24.

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• Re:that's the whole premise isn't it? Re:that's the whole premise isn't it? (Score: 1) by jmc23 on Saturday May 31 2014, @01:44AM

  by jmc23 (4142) on Saturday May 31 2014, @01:44AM (#49388)

  um, yeah, energy drink sounds real nutrional.

  2 eggs and potatoes, 50c.

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  • Re:that's the whole premise isn't it? (Score: 2) by EvilJim on Saturday May 31 2014, @07:27AM

    by EvilJim (2501) on Saturday May 31 2014, @07:27AM (#49484) Journal

    don't forget gas or electric cost :) I'm still trying to decide if it's more nutritional than the nothing I was having previously.

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