Poll of the Day > Anyone here tried soylent?

(+) Yeah! (+)

I hate eating breakfast and I want a replacement.
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Yeah. It kinda tastes like bland bread or crackers. The stuff is convenient if nothing else. I guess they only sell the premixed version now.

It is a high carb meal though, so if you are avoiding or limiting carbs you'll want to look for something else.
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I am really interested in the nutritional aspect of it. Ill have to do more research.
Have you tried their other flavors?
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No when I tried it they didn't offer any flavors
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lmao

Welcome to the clammy embrace of late capitalism. This is a world where a young startup bro who hates food can invent a potion based on internet research, bottle it up, name it after something from a dystopian sci-fi novel that’s literally made of people, sell it to other startup bros, raise millions of dollars in funding, sell it to other food-haters, make all of those people violently ill, fool vegans into consuming animal products, issue a whole bunch of recalls, and then raise $50 million more dollars. Its almost as if Silicon Valley will barf money into the mouth any project just to see what comes out the other side. In this case, its bullshit.

http://gizmodo.com/silicon-valley-can-t-stop-puking-money-all-over-soylent-1794922017
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To be fair he named it after Soylent from the novel, which was not made of people but instead made from soy and lentils.

Both friends and business associates encouraged him to change the name, but keeping seems to have generated a lot of buzz for the product.
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The guys sounds a bit crazy from what I have read online.
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Everyone in Silicon Valley is pretty crazy, so you're correct with your assumption.
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CountessRolab posted...

The guys sounds a bit crazy from what I have read online.

Most innovators are
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Anyway, you're better off just making your own breakfast. You'll save money and eat better. You can only drink Soylent for so long before you get sick of it. But you can vary your breakfast as much as you want. You're not even that health conscious, so eat bacon every day. It doesn't matter.
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They're made of people!
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