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Re:Soylent’s Next Chapter by otakucode on Monday December 11, 2017 @03:58PM (#15900371)
Are you referring to the fake problems with the delicious snack bars? Or something else? I don't keep close track of Soylent as I only consume their products now and then (its shelf life is one of the things I love about it... and now I fear they'll cut that because it stunts repeat sales and encourages the kind of consumer they don't want) but that's the last I know of. Was bummed when they discontinued them, I ate loads of them and never had an issue. When they accepted returns and proceeded to eat them to prove they were fine, I appreciated that response and felt it the appropriate one but I know they backed off of that and apologized.
Re:Soylent’s Next Chapter by Bartweiss on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @12:25PM (#15907408)
Not particularly - I never kept up with the snack bar controversy enough to even know what the complaint was.

I was thinking foremost of the mold issues with liquid Soylent. That's fairly old (12+ months?) and seems to be solved, but it's a long-term reputation problem in the same sense as Chipotle. Less crucially, I'm also thinking about the digestive issues people have reported - that some people talk about nausea and terrible gas when consuming lots of Soylent.

Neither of those things seems to be a "our product is nonviable today" issue, but both have raised a specter among the people I talk to of "Soylent is weird and maybe not healthy". Swapping the CEO to someone more mainstream seems like one step towards fighting that perception.

Re:Soylent’s Next Chapter by kemiller on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:37AM (#15903456)
I can personally testify that the issues were not fake. It was awful. Maybe it was 1:1000 I don’t know but it totally happened.