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I was one of these people! I still have all the bars from the same pack, in case anyone wants to run experiments. The bar that made me sick was part of the know
by dguido 10y ago
I was one of these people! I still have all the bars from the same pack, in case anyone wants to run experiments. The bar that made me sick was part of the known bad "2:07 B.B. 14JUL17 F3 1966" batch.
I ate one of the contaminated bars about 2 weeks ago (9/28/2016) for breakfast (~9-10am?) and the only other thing I had that morning was water. By noon, I was walking out for lunch and rapidly got nauseous, then puked right on the sidewalk outside Fulton Center. Two of my coworkers witnessed it. I was unable to work, so I went home right away and tried to sleep it off, woke up later that night and felt, for the most part, better. Symptoms mostly subsided by 10pm that night.
I didn't put together that it was food poisoning until a week later when I saw these reports online (by following @Pinboard of course, for shame). I thought one of my coworkers got me sick. I tend to think most cases of food poisoning are your own fault (let something expire and eat it anyway, forget to wash something, etc). I never suspected that packaged food would cause something like this.
As many others hopefully have, I also used this incident to cancel all of my subscriptions with Soylent (2.0, Coffiest, and the bars). I started eating Soylent because of a jaw surgery I had in February. It was a convenient way to keep my weight up while I couldn't eat any solid food. Now that my jaw is healed, this is a great excuse to get back to normal food.
ps. Because Soylent is shamefully blaming this on the victims, I should state that I have seen an allergist within the last year and have no known allergies. I've consumed Soylent products, including the bars, since February 2016 without issue. I have no intolerance to any known food, as hopefully one of my twitter accounts can prove (@WhyIsntDanFat). Whatever happened, it's their fault, not some peculiarity with the way my body works, assholes.
pps. I also want to note that I consumed my contaminated bar AFTER reports about them making people sick appeared online. Soylent could have notified me to avoid them. Instead, they did nothing as the reports piled up and I ended up walking into this trap they could have reasonably alerted to. The only contact I had with them was 10/6/2016 when I emailed to notify them they were responsible for making me sick.
- guyzero 10y ago"Food poisoning is usually your own fault" - absolutely not. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/the-most-common-sources-of-food-poisoning/386570/ http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/the-most-c... It comes from poor hygiene in the food supply chain. Salmonella and Listeria don't appear in fruits because they've been left out on the counter.
- dguido 10y agoFair. At least in my own experience, I have succeeded in making myself sick more frequently from stupid decisions in the kitchen. I think this was part of the appeal of Soylent to me :-P.
- tropo 10y agoIt kind of is your fault, though some products are defective by design. Food is normally produced outdoors being overflown by birds, and you know what birds do. You should simply assume that food is naturally coated in pathogens that you need to deal with. Never bite into food that isn't clean. Never slice it unless you will be cooking it afterward. You can clean by peeling, if this is possible without cutting. (bananas and citrus) You can clean by blanching, which is a brief exposure to boiling water. You can clean by washing with bleach, excepting the many foods (apples, cucumbers, etc.) that have been waxed to seal in the germs. Sadly, this normally means that raw apples and raw cucumbers are hopeless. Eh, maybe you can get the wax off with warm oil followed by ethanol. Realistically, you won't get these clean before cutting into them.
- jimmydddd 10y agoI was one as well. I tried a case of the drink (2.0) and enjoyed it. I then got the bars because I liked the convenience. I became very nauseous several times from the bars, and haven't had any more. I follow the soylent blog and hadn't seen any notices, so this is the first time I'm hearing of this. Surprising that they'd post about the Coffiest vitamin deficiency, but not this.
- nialv7 10y agoI was one as well. But my case is probably not as convincing. It was ~2 weeks ago, I ate a bar at ~11am (which tasted the same as any other bar), then I ate lunch at ~1pm. By 4pm I started feeling nauseous. But luckily I was able to get to a toilet. I puked twice, first time it was mostly my lunch, second time there was clearly Soylent bar content. At first I blamed my lunch (I ate my lunch that day at the dining center of my University, which likely serves ~thousand people everyday). Before seeing this post I never suspected it was the bar.