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Re:Soylent on the latest Vice piece by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @08:08PM (#6722668)
> Delicious unhealthy cheeseburger or a tasteless but healthy goop in a can?

I choose -- false dichotomy. Plenty of healthy and not tasteless quick meal replacements that already exist.

Re:Soylent on the latest Vice piece by MarcusVorenus on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @08:31PM (#6722753)
Such option was not presented in the hypothetical scenario. It'd be trivial anyway to make the tasteless goop tasty with some flavorings.
Re:Soylent on the latest Vice piece by djur on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @08:57PM (#6722827)
If you think it is "trivial" to make a bland substance taste good without substantially changing the nutritional makeup of that substance, there are a lot of diet food companies who would like to have a chat with you and make you fabulously rich. Jamba Juice would like to know the secret, too.

Most things that innately taste good -- stuff that you could drop in a blender and drink and it'd still be agreeable -- are fatty, salty, starchy, sugary, or some mix of all these. Healthy and good-tasting food requires pleasant textures and careful composition that allows a small amount of fat, salt, starch, etc. to enhance the flavor of the whole meal.

Re:Soylent on the latest Vice piece by MarcusVorenus on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @10:05PM (#6723073)
I guess I should have said it would be trivial to make it tastier for my own non-demanding taste buds. I could just add a few drops of stevia and I'd be good to go, but I see how it could be a challenge to make something that pleases most people.

"Fatty" is not a synonym for unhealthy by the way. A lot of people consider high fat/low carb diets to be healthier than the reverse.

Re:Soylent on the latest Vice piece by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @12:21AM (#6723515)
OP here. I'm currently on the keto diet; fat, in moderation, fat is definitely not unhealthy.

The problem is, McDonalds meals are not healthy, full stop:

Mcdonald's - Big Mac Meal With Fries and Coke With No Onions

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/mcdonalds-big-mac-...

1130 Calories, and 67 grams of sugar. Call me when McDonalds modifies their meals to consist primarily of protein/fat calories.

Re:Soylent on the latest Vice piece by Erwin on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @06:30AM (#6724521)
Don't get fries. Don't get a drink with sugar added. Definitely don't get a milkshake or cookies.

The burger itself is fine. You wouldn't go to Subway for a nice sandwich and drink a liter of Coke afterwards and a bag of chips and complain about how unhealthy it is.

Here you can get some nice fresh crispy raw carrots instead of fries.

Re:Soylent on the latest Vice piece by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @09:40PM (#6730191)
> Such option was not presented in the hypothetical scenario.

Right...that's why I called the scenario a false dichotomy.