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Powdered shake meal replacements are all over Amazon. Moreover we've already seen Soylent's alternate pitch as a two meal replacement product which makes it li
by Steko 13y ago
Powdered shake meal replacements are all over Amazon. Moreover we've already seen Soylent's alternate pitch as a two meal replacement product which makes it little different than the Slim Fast delicious shake for breakfast, another for lunch and whatever you want for dinner that Tommy Lasorda and other people have hawked on TV for decades.
- pbreit 13y agoMeal replacement is almost always marketed as missing an occasional meal or up to 1 or (max) 2 meals in a day for up to a few consecutive days. Soylent is marketing 14-21 meals/week for several/many/all? months.
- DanBC 13y agoI think that's the worrying thing about Soylent. I really wish they'd kept it experimental, or pushed it as suitable for daily use but not all meals, or some such.
- pbreit 13y agoBut then it really would be, as you critique, not new.
- Steko 13y ago"Soylent is marketing 14-21 meals/week" I'm pretty sure this was exactly my point. Soylent's original angle was as a total replacement and they've already started moving the goalposts to 14. 14 meals a week is the same thing that Slim Fast has pitched since the late 70's and no this wasn't just for occasional meals or 2-3 days at a time, customers were encouraged to follow Slim Fast's 2 shakes a day as a long term solution.
- pbreit 13y agoI haven't seen them market 14 meals/week, I was just putting out what I thought was a reasonable range. I don't think it's moving the goal posts. Rob said in the very first post that Soylent allowed him to enjoy regular meals much more. Slim Fast, of course, is strictly marketed for weight loss. Soylent, not really at all.