Our entire point is that neither is soylent. Pointing out that these shakes aren’t the thing we said they’re not does not prove that soylent some how is.
And as I expressed elsewhere I, before you became involved, compared liquid to liquid. In the most similar purchase volume I could manage to find. The absolute cost of a given option. Doesn’t much matter. If that were the case, I could “prove” any given option was technically cheapest by buying the individual componants by the ton and mixing it myself.
It’s the comparison between the two prices that can tell you where cost actually lies. To do that you need to eliminate as many unrelated variables that add to the cost as you can. And you do that by selecting the versions of the product that are most similar. Not simply the cheapest options possible
Beef is not cheaper than pork because the per pound cost of a full loin primal of beef at Restaurant depot is less than the per pound cost of a single pork chop at a particular supermarket. Beef is more expensive than pork. As you can see by comparing un trimmed loin primal to untrimmed loin primal.
But I guess if you can’t “disprove” an argument you can just tl;dr it away. And demand people cease to discuss things on a discussion board.
