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Do you share every meal with friends? How do you arrange the invitations? It seems, that soylent is for time, when you eat in solitude, and for me it's the maj

Do you share every meal with friends? How do you arrange the invitations? It seems, that soylent is for time, when you eat in solitude, and for me it's the majority of my dinners.

jacquesm 13y ago
I eat every meal with at least one other person, and usually with at least three and if I were to be alone and thought about eating as 'fuelling up for the next round' I'd slow down and take out my phone to invite someone to have dinner with me. Friends are always welcome to eat at our house, and to stay if they want to. Plenty of HN'ers have already found out that that is not idle talk.
- marknutter 13y ago
  So Soylent isn't for you. Why even bother criticizing it? It'd be like a BMW owner criticizing a Kia owner for choosing an inferior driving experience. There are people out there who don't have the luxury of eating every single meal with a friend and for whom food isn't such a religious experience. There's clearly a market need for a quick, nutritious meal.
  - jacquesm 13y ago
    Let me quote you some of the soylent texts: "Soylent - Free Your Body" "Share it with your friends and family -- they like getting good nutrients too, we promise!" "Soylent frees you from the time and money spent shopping, cooking and cleaning, puts you in excellent health" A bunch of unsourced (anonymous) 'early adopters' raving about the product. This is wrong at so many levels that a bit of skepticism to counter it is a good thing. Disrupting eating, what could possibly go wrong? Soylent is definitely arguing that people should switch wholesale to their diet, and that's a move that would require a lot of hoops to be jumped through before any kind of claims hinting in that direction could be made. It's nothing to do with BMW vs KIA, it's everything to do with taking significant risks with other peoples' health.
    - marknutter 13y ago
      If they truly are recommending people replace every meal - and I've not heard them explicitly say that - then I myself have misgivings. But that doesn't ruin the entire idea for me. I personally wouldn't replace every single meal and think there's a definite benefit to having access to a quick, nutritious meal when you need it. I doubt very many people outside of the founder himself will actually go on an all Soylent diet, so why bother attacking that premise?

Do you share every meal with friends? How do you arrange the invitations? It seems, that soylent is for time, when you eat in solitude, and for me it's the majority of my dinners.

jacquesm 13y ago

I eat every meal with at least one other person, and usually with at least three and if I were to be alone and thought about eating as 'fuelling up for the next round' I'd slow down and take out my phone to invite someone to have dinner with me. Friends are always welcome to eat at our house, and to stay if they want to. Plenty of HN'ers have already found out that that is not idle talk.

marknutter 13y ago
So Soylent isn't for you. Why even bother criticizing it? It'd be like a BMW owner criticizing a Kia owner for choosing an inferior driving experience. There are people out there who don't have the luxury of eating every single meal with a friend and for whom food isn't such a religious experience. There's clearly a market need for a quick, nutritious meal.
- jacquesm 13y ago
  Let me quote you some of the soylent texts: "Soylent - Free Your Body" "Share it with your friends and family -- they like getting good nutrients too, we promise!" "Soylent frees you from the time and money spent shopping, cooking and cleaning, puts you in excellent health" A bunch of unsourced (anonymous) 'early adopters' raving about the product. This is wrong at so many levels that a bit of skepticism to counter it is a good thing. Disrupting eating, what could possibly go wrong? Soylent is definitely arguing that people should switch wholesale to their diet, and that's a move that would require a lot of hoops to be jumped through before any kind of claims hinting in that direction could be made. It's nothing to do with BMW vs KIA, it's everything to do with taking significant risks with other peoples' health.
  - marknutter 13y ago
    If they truly are recommending people replace every meal - and I've not heard them explicitly say that - then I myself have misgivings. But that doesn't ruin the entire idea for me. I personally wouldn't replace every single meal and think there's a definite benefit to having access to a quick, nutritious meal when you need it. I doubt very many people outside of the founder himself will actually go on an all Soylent diet, so why bother attacking that premise?