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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 Reziac on Saturday May 31 2014, @04:29AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Saturday May 31 2014, @04:29AM (#49443) Homepage

    Most vegetable oils are 'stiff'.

    I've never heard it put that way before! Good way to explain it to the layman, heh.

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