When I heard about Soylent, I thought my prayers had been answered. I was wrong

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8590673/soylent

by dogecoinbase • 11 years ago

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Raphmedia• 11 years ago

This person is very lazy and very bad at cooking if she failed at making Soylent (mix powder with oil...) and thinks it is too hard and would rather drive to a fast food.

JeffL• 11 years ago

I agree with a lot of this. I have a lot of Soylent bags lying around, but I continually fail to make it in advance so it can chill, and once I do, I have a hard time eating it all before it expires. If I could just think, "I want some Soylent" and then have some Soylent, I would be eating it way, way more.

HashHishBang2• 11 years ago

Buy a blender bottle, the ones with the small wire ball inside which are designed for mixing protein powders and the like. They're about ~20 floz so fill 8oz with Soylent, 8+ with water and you're good. Throw in some ice, shake, and no chilling is needed.

I stopped using the big container entirely since it's like 3-5$ for a bottle I just bought 2 and always have a clean one.

HashHishBang2• 11 years ago

Wow, that was a truly terrible article. The sheer level of laziness displayed is astonishing if only because that same person has managed to type up complaints of this length.

When your number one point about Soylent is it's too difficult to make then I begin to seriously question the author's ability to actually make it through a day.

Follow up points are equally pathetic. Arguing the inflexibility of a powder by only brewing large batches, while the concept that this is a powder, able to be mixed on demand in <5 minutes, appears to have never crossed the authors mind.

The final point appears to be a complaint that not everyone shares the author's viewpoint. Admittedly at that point I had started skimming hoping to see some semblance of an actual point, I was wrong.

Overall it seems this article is trying to use hyperbole and a few mediocre attempts at humorous comparisons to hide the fact that the author comes off as so lazy and incompetent as to have issues mixing powder and water.

One can only imagine the horror that is this individual's attempts to mix coco powder with those tiny marshmallows.

jhwhite• 11 years ago

This was a rather obnoxious article. I wish there was a way to downvote the article itself.

virtue3• 11 years ago

... I'm completely dumbfounded that someone could actually complain that soylent is too much of a PITA to make. I genuinely worry for this person and their inability to do... anything.

kjs3• 11 years ago

I can't decide if this is a misplaced Onion article, or I just read wordvomit from one of the most insipid people on the planet.

Rooster61• 11 years ago

My mental picture of the author of this article is of one of the actors you see in bad late night infomercials. The ones that are too inept to use a regular knife for simple tasks, or put a lid on Tupperware.

Just like the people in this little gem: http://everythingisterrible.blogspot.com/2009/09/infomercial...

I think Vox needs to reevaluate who they hand out free breakfast to.

DanBC• 11 years ago

If the author is determined to replace food with gloop the could try any of the very many existing food replacement products that were on the market for many years before Soylent was created.

Point 2 is just baffling. Fruit and veg doesn't go from great to rotten over night just because you delayed a meal for a day. Learn to use a freezer and buy some of the very good quality frozen fruit and veg.

jressey• 11 years ago

Whelp, never have to visit Vox again.

nattaggart• 11 years ago

In defense of the article, when picking between protein shake brands to stock up on, I ended up selecting a pre-packaged one for the exact reasons described in the article: quicker, less messy, requires no extra tools.

Pre-packaged soylent seems like a good idea. Might not be possible, but if it is, that would probably win me over. I have to imagine it'd make the author happy to.

When I heard about Soylent, I thought my prayers had been answered. I was wrong

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