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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by joe_the_user on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:48AM (#12813177)
"It's not [...] supposed to replace all meals."

Wait,

"Soylent is an open source meal REPLACEMENT[emph added], advertised as a "staple meal", available in liquid and powdered forms as a beverage, and as a solid-form meal bar. Its creators state that Soylent meets all nutritional requirements for an average adult."

If something is advertised as a "meal replacement", it seems likely that people will use it to ... replace their meals - for those inclined, that would mean "all meals".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(food)

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by rockdiesel on Friday October 28, 2016 @01:00AM (#12813218)
Also, they originally advertised it with copy like "A full day of balanced nutrition prepared in 3 minutes for $3/meal" and "What if you never have to worry about food again?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20150515220800/https://www.soyle...

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by JauntyHatAngle on Friday October 28, 2016 @01:23AM (#12813320)
Well yeah, you don't eat one meal your whole life. You have multiple meals in a day.

But regardless, they went for that angle in the early days because it got them the advertising and funding. It got the attention, it's good marketing.

Nowadays they bill it as a meal replacer, in the respect of you CAN replace whatever meal you want with it without having to worry about the effort or time it takes to prepare/research a good balanced meal.

All that said, I don't personally use the stuff but would like to try it out.

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