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I don't feel like this is a good name for a food product. Doesn't anybody remember the 70's? "Soylent Green is people!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKVj4l

• codezero 13y ago
  That's exactly why they chose it. It's more in reference to the ubiquitous foodstuff made of ambiguous contents, a bit tongue in cheek, but clearly we are meant to get the reference, and at least for now we can be pretty sure it's free of people. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/08/20/soylent/ http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/08/20/soylent/ http://robrhinehart.com/?p=474 http://robrhinehart.com/?p=474 http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/soylent-no-food-for-30-days http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/soylent-no-food-for-30-days ^Soylent's response: http://blog.soylent.me/post/66807143901/this-morning-vices-brian-merchant-published-a http://blog.soylent.me/post/66807143901/this-morning-vices-b...
  • acjohnson55 13y ago
    Thanks for the resources. This is the first time I've heard of this product. Very interesting. I'm doing a nutritional experiment for the month, avoiding meat, bread, alcohol, sweeteners, and potatoes. It would be interesting to do the Soylent for a month experiment, perhaps with additional flavorings.
• jack-r-abbit 13y ago
  But... this isn't Soylent Green. And if you recall, the other variants of Soylent products from the book/movie were NOT people. So... let's not focus on that one and focus on this one.