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"Time spent at table doesn't age you" is one of my favorite sayings. The real soylent sickness isn't replacing locally sourced, farm-to-table food with disgust

"Time spent at table doesn't age you" is one of my favorite sayings. The real soylent sickness isn't replacing locally sourced, farm-to-table food with disgusting "food", as the author claims. The real soylent sickness is the culture of "meals are just input so I can keep working".

sotojuan 10y ago
In most cases that's true, though by "working" I don't mean just actually working for someone else but rather doing anything I like. I don't really care about food but I gotta eat it to do stuff I enjoy. Soylent helps out in that case because it fills me up, is healthy, and is quick. I already have my nice dinner with girlfriend once a day, not every meal has to be like that. I'm not sure why anti-Soylent people believe Soylent users only drink Soylent.
fernandotakai 10y ago
i feel like this comes from the idea that "time spent not working is time wasted" -- as in, if elon musk works 90h weeks, everybody should too. and if you are not, you are wasting your life (startups in particular are full of those people). i honestly feels like people forgot that there's more to life than working or making money or disrupting an industry. go lay down on a park and watch the sunset for goodness sake, it's good for you! (in my case, i 1000% love cooking. it's a whole experience, even if it's just for me. cooking for myself is "me time", when i do things for myself, so i can enjoy)
- shuntress 10y ago
  Is something stopping you from going to a park _right now_ and sleeping in the grass until you wake up to watch the sunset? What, you would get hungry if you don't go home and cook dinner? If only there was some convenient food you could pack with you that takes no time to prepare, little time to consume, and is easily transportable...
  - fernandotakai 10y ago
    honestly? no. i work remotely for a company that has flexible hours. i did that a lot -- or even, go to the pool and enjoy a couple of hours of doing nothing by the pool. i specifically chose a job that allows me to enjoy my life and my family. > If only there was some convenient food you could pack with you that takes no time to prepare, little time to consume, and is easily transportable... like sandwich? it takes me 10min to prepare a really tasty BLT that i can take anywhere.
psyc 10y ago
That's exactly what meals are to me. I just don't care that much about enjoying food - certainly not enough to spend time on it. Grilling a seasoned steak once a week is more than enough reward-from-food for me.

sotojuan 10y ago

In most cases that's true, though by "working" I don't mean just actually working for someone else but rather doing anything I like. I don't really care about food but I gotta eat it to do stuff I enjoy. Soylent helps out in that case because it fills me up, is healthy, and is quick. I already have my nice dinner with girlfriend once a day, not every meal has to be like that. I'm not sure why anti-Soylent people believe Soylent users only drink Soylent.

fernandotakai 10y ago

i feel like this comes from the idea that "time spent not working is time wasted" -- as in, if elon musk works 90h weeks, everybody should too. and if you are not, you are wasting your life (startups in particular are full of those people). i honestly feels like people forgot that there's more to life than working or making money or disrupting an industry. go lay down on a park and watch the sunset for goodness sake, it's good for you! (in my case, i 1000% love cooking. it's a whole experience, even if it's just for me. cooking for myself is "me time", when i do things for myself, so i can enjoy)

shuntress 10y ago
Is something stopping you from going to a park _right now_ and sleeping in the grass until you wake up to watch the sunset? What, you would get hungry if you don't go home and cook dinner? If only there was some convenient food you could pack with you that takes no time to prepare, little time to consume, and is easily transportable...
- fernandotakai 10y ago
  honestly? no. i work remotely for a company that has flexible hours. i did that a lot -- or even, go to the pool and enjoy a couple of hours of doing nothing by the pool. i specifically chose a job that allows me to enjoy my life and my family. > If only there was some convenient food you could pack with you that takes no time to prepare, little time to consume, and is easily transportable... like sandwich? it takes me 10min to prepare a really tasty BLT that i can take anywhere.

psyc 10y ago

That's exactly what meals are to me. I just don't care that much about enjoying food - certainly not enough to spend time on it. Grilling a seasoned steak once a week is more than enough reward-from-food for me.