I legitimately loved Soylent when I gave it a shot. I didn't have to waste my lunch hour going to the same tired restaurants and overpay for the same tired food

I legitimately loved Soylent when I gave it a shot. I didn't have to waste my lunch hour going to the same tired restaurants and overpay for the same tired food, or spend extra time and money to meal-prep the night before. Soylent was always there. And if you didn't want Soylent that day, those options still existed, and they tasted better because Soylent does indeed have the taste and texture of watery cardboard. I never had any desires to go "full-time", since food plays a much larger role in our lives than nourishment, and the science behind Soylent was already questionable being based on US population dietary guidelines. I often felt better drinking Soylent, although in retrospect it was probably because it was half the calories of a restaurant meal. A Soylent "meal" is only 400 calories. But the second box regularly gave me gastrointestinal problems and I quit. I tried many of the later formulas and competing brands, but that problem creeps up often enough that it's not worth the investment. I think the notion of Soylent solving hunger problems, or being subsidized and given to the poor, was never really in the plan. It was a form of greenwashing, a way for their users to think they were involved in something good for the world.