Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti...
by nether on Thursday October 27, 2016 @11:47PM
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Rhinehart asserted from the start that Soylent was meant to replace shitty meals like the Big Mac consumed at your desk alone. There was and still is a lot of misunderstanding about this. One of his interviews took place at some LA hipster fried chicken place. He's not antifood or antisocial.
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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti...
by rgbrenner on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:23AM
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He asserted this from the start???
Here's the Tilt crowdfunding page: https://wayback.archive.org/web/20141012152640/https://crowd...
Note, it's titled "Soylent Free Your Body". Here are some phrases in the short post:
"What if you never had to worry about food again?"
"Soylent frees you from the time and money spent
shopping, cooking and cleaning, puts you in excellent
health, and vastly reduces your environmental impact by
eliminating much of the waste and harm coming from
agriculture, livestock, and food-related trash."
Packages available: $255 One month supply of Soylent
We'll ship enough soylent to fully replace one month's worth of meals
This is after he went on a 30 day experiment titled "How I Stopped Eating Food" http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298
Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti...
by batbomb on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:48AM
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Don't forget:
"Soylent™ was developed from a need for a simpler food source."
"No need to shop for individual ingredients or plan ahead" (I think this one was Mealsquares)
"You’ve got more important things to do than worry about food."
"Enjoy a 26 hour day"
I wrote a parody post based on the marketing on the web page and my own personal outrage with the claims:
https://medium.com/@__1/on-food-and-not-cooking-4c9fba0d2d20
I still believe my note is true:
Note: Neither Soylent nor Mealsquares make any public claims that I could find,
beneficial or otherwise, about using their product for the complete nutrition
of women, especially those expecting or nursing, children, teenagers, the
elderly, or people with medical conditions, including malnutrition. I think
it’s probably optimized for healthy males, aged 20–40-ish, or in the words
of Soylent: “All Adults”, but I don’t have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
like Rob, so I probably shouldn’t comment.
Please proceed at your own risk just in case.
Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti...
by eridius on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:01AM
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Really? When Soylent was first announced, I'm pretty sure I read something where Rhinehart was positioning Soylent as the primary source of meals, with the occasional real meal thrown in as a luxury.
Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti...
by sjwright on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:03AM
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Can't both be true for different people?
Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti...
by couchand on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:38AM
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No, this particular question has an empirical answer.