I thought they called it Soylent as kind of a joke. I’m sure they’re already fully aware of what Soylent Green is lol
Yeah the creator said the name was specifically meant to pique curiosity and I’d say OP fell for it
OP always falls for ‘it’
Is “it” in the room with us now?
No, check the storm drain.
Damn. Hot the nail on the head. Found my balloon too.
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Yes that is where the name stems from.
It was soy and lentil in the book.
The movie based on the book made it people.
Been waiting a while for this lol
Soylent Cola? How is it?
It varies from person to person.
I came here for this!
I think you overestimate the knowledge of the average consumer.
Actually drinking a Soylent Mint Chocolate right now. One of the better flavors!
It’s the long pig that makes it tasty.
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Just watch out for the brains.
Mmmmm prions
It’s the Vanilla for me. Silky smoooooth people bits!
People, amirite?
Delicious, delicious people.
Not really, that stuff tastes like shit
Only if you eat the colon.
Or the rich
But they’re so marbled…
This joke was old in 2013.
As I recall, the joke was getting old in the late 90s on slashdot
Yes but I’m talking about when the actual Soylent beverage was invented and named by Rob Reinhardt. 2013.
I’m pretty sure they didn’t have Soylent Green in 2013. Just Soylent.
The green bottles came out around 2018. I was there for it. I bought them and I drank them and they were delicious. The book Soylent Green and the movie Soylent Green were 1960s 1970s. The creator of the nutritional beverage Rob Reinhardt has a dark wry sarcastic sense of humor and he named his new creation Soylent on purpose because of his sense of humor, before he had any idea his invention would take off on an international level of popularity. His invention first became publicly available around 2013. He has made motions and attempts to rename the brand but it has become so popular, name and product, that he & Rosa Foods are leaving the name alone for now.
I’ve always found it suspicious that the best tasting one was the green one, ngl
They have a lot of flavors that were amazing but they discontinued them for some reason:
Cafe chai
Cafe Vanilla
Nectar (I personally liked it and heard a lot of other people liked it too, but more people didn’t like it so it was discontinued, it tasted like the milk you get when you’re done with the bowl of Fruity Pebbles cereal)
Coffiest (for people who like coffee it was great, I don’t like coffee, but this was their first caffeinated variety which was great)
Original (not sure if they still make it but that was my favorite for a long time because it didn’t trigger my taste bud receptors therefore it didn’t make me crave sugar)
Banana
Strawberry (Maybe it still exists, I don’t know)
Hahaha nice one! Jk this is low effort, but what else do you expect from a high-volume poster.
that’s where you’re wrong, kiddo.
oh, 2013? maybe not then. but they did at one point
I don’t get it
There was a movie in the 1970s about a dystopian future where there was not enough food to go around. The main food company was named Soilent.
So it was coming out with a new product that would end hunger. It was made out of algae, and it was called Soilent Green.
Charleston Heston was the hero of the movie and he broke into the factory and figured out that it was actually made from dead people.
Thank you :)
And holy shit what a movie…
It was spelled Soylent, just like this product.
And it’s made of soy and lentils, hence the name. At least it was in the novel the film was (loosely) based on.
And the movie added the “Green” for some reason.
IIRC there were two variants in the movie and the “green” variant based on humans was added as a new product because the production couldn’t keep up with population increase.
The movie was called the ten commandments btw.
“Get your paws off me, you damn dirty god!”
That man? Abraham Lincoln.
As far as meal replacement shakes go, Soylent is the least offensive to your mouth if not in its name.
The mint one is especially good. But they certainly can’t replace a meal, IMO. They don’t really do anything at all to make you feel full enough that they actually satisfy hunger. I tend to have them for breakfast, but with toast or a bagel to actually feel like I ate.
My brother managed to drink only it for a while and it gave him crazy bad poops initially but it balanced out. He’s just the soulless kind of guy it’s meant for, he didn’t miss the taste of real food in the slightest.
He’s kicked it, though, probably because it really isn’t great long term as the only thing you eat.
I lived on the Soylent bottles for quite a while, but one particularly busy active summer 2021 it landed me in the hospital because it turns out Soylent has no sodium, and if you have no sodium in your body then you end up in the hospital on a saline drip. Lesson learned and I share that lesson with everyone every time this topic comes up.
Important PSA, especially for tech bros like my literal brother. I’ll remember that!
I did the Soylent thing for 6 months for breakfast and lunch and ate normal for dinner, but after a while I just started to loathe the taste and texture. Then they jacked up the prices so I stopped my subscription.
That’s insane.
That it doesn’t have salt, I mean. I remember when this stuff first came out and its creator was going around on talk shows and the like, talking about it and it was literally supposed to give you everything your body needed to survive. Which should include sodium.
Used to have it for lunch every day and it wasn’t bad at all, knew the recipe by heart at some point…
They don’t really do anything at all to make you feel full enough that they actually satisfy hunger
That was my experience with Soylent, but huel works for me.
The powdered versions of Soylent are much more satiating. I’m pretty sure they intentionally formulated the liquid kind to not be so satisfying, you know cuz people buy more when they’re still hungry, And when people buy more, Soylent earns more.
They are only like 200 calories so it’s no surprise it’s not filling
Huel was my fave for a while.
But even having it twice a day (breakfast + Lunch) I maintained weight but felt forever hungry. So it was kinda shit.
Also if you didn’t clean the flask straight after it turned into a biological warfare weapon.
Oh and the backend result was not pleasant. Lots of gas and floaty cauliflower shit.
Soylent; encouraging cannibalism without advertising it
They knew
Whoa they still exist? I remember getting a bunch some long ass time ago and it was decent but pretty expensive. I don’t think they had flavours like this though.
I got some from vybey about a year ago. They sent out promo codes because of slow shipping, and I stacked that with a sale discount and free shipping to get about 500 powder meals for 35% off. I only eat them after gym sessions or while hiking so they gonna last me a long time.
4.39?!? Fuck that’s so much. Granted I used to drink the powder mix so I’m used to those prices
I used to live on those when they cost a little over $1 per bottle. The price inflation now is outrageous. Anyway I stopped drinking Soylent mid-2021 soon after they switched their sweetener to allulose. My body did not like allulose. I drink Jimmy Joy Plenny Shake now, and eat MealSquares.
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I’ll take Posts Where the OP Missed The Joke for 100, Alex
