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I still don't understand the excitement behind this, but apparently everyone here can't stop talking about them. So I guess they are doing something right.

• danudey 13y ago
  It's the ultimate in appeal to the geek crowd. It optimizes away a process which is a balance of expensive, inefficient, time consuming, and often unhealthy. Breakfast and lunch are throwaway meals for me; I eat because I have to in order to live and be productive and healthy, but none of my choices seem optimal. I can eat a fresh, healthy meal at work (expensive), I can reheat yesterday's dinner (microwaved food is less appetizing and often not as healthy), I can grab a quick meal (unhealthy and often expensive), or I can prepare a proper lunch ahead of time (time consuming). The promise of soylent is simple: from now on, you can eat meals because you want to, not because you have to. On top of that, you only get what you need, and not what you don't want. I compare it to, say, Linux. You can compile all your software from scratch, install dependencies, and customize absolutely everything, and some people do that because they enjoy it. Many people don't, and don't want to deal with it, and we have distributions like Ubuntu that take away 80% of what you used to need to do to get a proper Linux distribution running. With Soylent, you still have the option of other meals; it's entirely up to you. You can drink it as your sole nutritional intake, you can have a Friday dinner out, or you can eat dinner with the family and just replace breakfast and lunch.
  • rblatz 13y ago
    They have meal replacement shakes out, and have for years. They have much more attractive sounding names.