Jesus H Christ, they weren’t eating food. I guess if they resent eating then they would probably resent cooking too, despite the fact that they could eat healthy wholesome food for around the same cost as they layed out for junk food. Scurvy? They were getting enough C from the sugary drinks they no doubt washed them down with, not to mention the condiments.
Hell, keep the Ramen & keep the cooking downtime at a minimum, but add vegetables/eggs/shit like that while it cooks & bam, you eating right.
Same-Same with the fast food, real food is cheaper.
But then again, this poor chap thinks that an all-kale diet is some kind of solution… til he broke & went back to his empty addictive carbs I bet. Probably took as many as 5 hours.
Thanks for re-posting a portion of text I skimmed past, tho I was skimming cause I had already made up my mind lol
I can’t wait to see* what will result when some tech-obsessed goon launches an effort to replace our messy, inefficient sexual apparatus. Followed by everything else pleasant in life that might get in the way of playing first person shooters or coding first person shooters or whatever these people think deserves more time than actually living.
*Wait to see != not a supporter, just a morbid spectator.
You can eat ramen twice a day for $15 a month, but to fill your belly with corndogs & quesadilla it will start to add up.
Besides, what are the odds that they selected processed stoner food & weren’t also tossing some sugary drinks, Fruit Loops & other stuff into the cart at Costco? & then indulging occasionally at a restaurant, or just McDonald’s, to comfort themselves in their pitiable condition?
Yessir, but it’s just the water in there. NASA/other could commission a version better suited, some powder in a plastic pouch that is handy to pee in? Warm food in an instant!
Reminds me of the old Dave Barry rant about people making handcrafted Christmas gifts:
“If everybody pulled that kind of subversive stunt, the economy would collapse overnight. The government would have to intervene: it would form a cabinet-level Department of Holiday Gift-Giving, which would spend billions and billions of tax dollars to buy Barbie dolls and electronic games, which it would drop on the populace from Air Force jets, killing and maiming thousands”
The narrow minded elitism on display here is rather sad. There are millions of people that struggle with eating healthy for one reason or another. Soylent solves a lot of them. A lot of these comments remind me of people being incredulous over people not giving a shit if they have a nice car. I don’t give a shit about nice cars. I can appreciate a ride in a nice car, but I am pretty happy to be a few k richer by driving my reliable beater.
My own personal issue is time. Often I am short on time. Yes, the ideal solution is to make time and prepare ahead. I have proven without a doubt that I am bad at this. An alternative to a slab of pizza is a godsend. I don’t need to make every meal Soylent, but I sure as hell would be a lot healthier if all my shitty meals were replaced. If that offends your sensibilities, fuck you.
As for why not Ensure, it is because it is crap for you, expensive, and makes concessions to taste by adding in more crap.
I have been doing DIY low carb high protein and fat Soylent for about a month. I dropped off 5% of my weight and feel great. Yeah, that might have also been accomplished with healthy eating and a few more pounds of meat each week than I really don’t want to eat, but the Soylent rout made it easy, painless, something i can stuck to, and cheap.
So, hurray for you if you are healthy, slim, and eat good home cooked meals every day for all your meals. Have a gold star and realize that you are in the minority. If the health of others can be vastly improved with a method you find icky, don’t fucking do it.
For a pile of geeks, a lot of you sure are narrow minded and easily offended by a fantastically effective body hack.
I can go to Costco and buy 8 50 pound bags of rice (60,000 calories each), 8 25 pound bags of dried beans (38,000 calories each) and a year and a half’s supply of daily multivitamins for $350 - a full year’s supply of calories and micronutrients, as far as this guy is concerned. That’s just over half the $50/month figure he describes (excluding water and energy for cooking). At first-world wholesale prices. And it’s a lot easier to make rice and beans taste good than things that aren’t food. And a $20 rice cooker means the time needed to do so is essentially zero.
This is brilliant in more ways than one.
People who survived having shipping containers dropped on their heads will pass on the gene for surviving a shipping container dropping on your head to their children and pretty soon a race of people who can survive a shipping container dropping on their heads will rise up and take over the world.
I kicked this mostly because it’s, like, space food!
That and about half of my breakfasts/lunches will suddenly exist and be nutritionally complete. The rest of the time I’ll have the usual english muffin, or bring a salad and some other things that were purchased/prepared ahead of time.
It’ll be like going to my favorite smoothie joint whenever I want, without driving 40 minutes and under half the price. (I wish substantial smoothies were as profitable as fruit juice, sugars and marketing.)
I have been waiting for a product like this for decades.
I remember telling a friend of mine in college that I “hated food” and he was flabbergasted: to him food was flavor and the endorphin rush of consuming, to me it was money and time and maybe even effort (for certain sloppy foods.) If we didn’t have to eat then we would not only save money but lots and lots of time.
Now all I need is a safe way to conquer sleep and I will be free to write the Great American Novel. (but not before.)
Did you read the actual article? He’s not using it as a complete substitute. He just eats about 90% of his meals that way.
And that’s really what it’s meant to be used for. Not to replace those really tasty steak dinners that you go out and pay big bucks for, or those times you and your friends go down to the burger joint to have lunch together, or any other meal that actually means something, but rather to replace all those times you open your pantry or freezer and grab the first random cheap and crappy thing you see—or, worse, go down to the fast food place up the street and buy something cheap and unhealthful—because you’ve got to eat something.
Indeed, I know my palate has revolted from time to time at the prospect of yet another frozen pizza or microwave tin of Dinty Moore stew. Soylent, on the other hand, sounds like it would be bland enough that you wouldn’t get sick of it as easily, and cheap enough to give those microwave pizzas a run for their money.
