The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable

Re:The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable by baddox on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @09:44PM (#7814173)

That's actually one of the fairer reviews I've seen. I think the author misses the appeal of Soylent for a lot of people, which is that for these people, food itself is primarily a hassle rather than a source of joy. These people would rather just scarf down a boring drink for a few seconds per day to keep themselves alive than deal with the problem of deciding on, buying, and preparing traditional food.

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Re:The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable by bignaj on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @09:50PM (#7814210)

I think it speaks to some other problem if people think eating is a hassle. Eating is super important to live, determines a lot of your health and most people here have missed that it is also a very important social interaction. Maybe this is the HN bubble but eating is not just about sustenance. Could you get someone who is not a workaholic tech employee to eat this willingly? Somehow I doubt it.

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Re:The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable by baddox on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @10:46PM (#7814427)

> Maybe this is the HN bubble but eating is not just about sustenance.

It is only about sustenance for some people. Many (probably most) people enjoy a lot of the food preparation and eating process. Others, myself included, do not. Maybe it's because my sense of taste or smell is stunted. Maybe it's because I'm socially underdeveloped. So be it. It's certainly not because I'm a workaholic tech employee, even if I currently am, because it has been the case as long as I can remember. Whatever the reason, I really don't enjoy the experience of preparing or eating food.

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Re:The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable by bignaj on Thursday May 29, 2014 @03:04PM (#7817976)

I think you are correct... this is for a niche market.

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Re:The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable by sp332 on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @09:52PM (#7814222)

Tons of people grab breakfast or lunch "on the go". It's not just workaholics. And for the 20 minutes some people get to talk over lunch, soylent would work just as well as a tub of yogurt and an apple.

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Re:The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable by mikeloeb on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @10:02PM (#7814277)

Speaking of the tech bubble, how come no one has mentioned products like this [0] which have been around for decades?

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Carnation-Breakfast-Essentials-Chocola...

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Re:The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable by bignaj on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @10:10PM (#7814306)

I have a gastrointestinal condition and had to eat exactly that for a while. The main problem is the taste is not so good, it has no texture, it's boring and there is no variety. It doesn't feel like eating. After a month of drinking that stuff for meals I almost wanted to break down and cry.

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Re:The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable by collyw on Friday May 30, 2014 @06:53AM (#7821100)

It doesn't sound much different from Solyent. I doubt it will solve any of those problems long term.

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Re:The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable by emgeee on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @09:53PM (#7814228)

It isn't just tech employees who are workaholics. Think about single moms working two jobs to stay afloat.

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Re:The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable by psychometry on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @09:50PM (#7814208)

I don't think he misses the appeal. In fact, he is quite clear in stating his understanding that one shouldn't necessarily consume Soylent for every single meal (or even more often than one would prefer). Unfortunately, he then immediately forgets that maxim and devotes the last 75% of the article to how unpleasant it would be to eat it for almost every meal. Asinine.

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