> What Soylent and the latest batch of food-tech startups are aiming for takes us back to the days of astronaut ice cream. What? > Remember that stuff? It was

> What Soylent and the latest batch of food-tech startups are aiming for takes us back to the days of astronaut ice cream. What? > Remember that stuff? It was developed as part of the space program in the nineteen-sixties, and you bought it in the sort of science stores that were toy stores for nerds. It was sweet. It came in ice-cream flavors. But it wasn’t ice cream, it was a simulation of ice cream, and no one in their right mind would chose it over the cold, creamy stuff on a hot day. Not even an astronaut. Soylent isn’t a simulation of food. I’m pretty sure it explicitly chooses not to simulate food. And people are choosing to eat it. As others have said, speak for yourself.