Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/10/12/soylent-bars-recalled-amid-gas.html
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" THE SHITTENING"
the greatest tag I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
Also when your food is a check list of nutrient powders, do you really expect solid poops?
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I, for one, have been using the powdered drink mix for months, as about 30% of my nutritional intake.
I have experienced no problems.
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Is Gastrointestinal Mayhem a spinoff of Electric Mayhem?
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From their ingredients:
Isomaltooligosaccharide
Magnesium Oxide
If the mix was off, you might as well have written “Laxative” on the bars and been done with it.
ETA: (For the curious, oligosaccharides are long-chain sugars that are difficult to digest and are responsible for humorous limericks about beans and the passage of wind. Magnesium oxide is sold as a short-term laxative.)
ETAA: Unless this is food poisoning (read: infectious contamination), in which case, fuck them.
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Isn’t it easier to just eat food?
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That’s so 20th Century.
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You don’t like Combat Rations? Miracle of Science, these little combat rations.
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Soylent is sending out 5 pound bags of sugar-free gummy bears as an apology…
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I don’t know; emergency ship rations and pilot wafers have been around quite a long time. Probably taste better, store longer under rougher conditions and aren’t thrist provoking. For when salt water is all you’ve got.
Soylent’s are poor substitute.
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Their purpose is to allow the culturally ambivalent to cut themselves off from all sources of joy.
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Back to the commune, hippie.
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Give me bachelor chow or give me some other convenient “food” substance.
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You know Bachelor Chow now has flavor. Try it with last night’s warm beer!
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I don’t play well enough with others for commune living.
Does a coop building count?
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Maybe. Are you all food-eating hippies?
This specific item is one of less than a half dozen I’ve reviewed on Amazon.
Too lemony, long lasting aftertaste, and despite indications to the contrary it made me thirsty.
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I’m bummed to hear that, because I’ve been thinking that I really should get around to putting together that earthquake/emergency/apocalypse kit that I’ve been thinking of getting around to. What’s better, something like this or regular military MREs?
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