I was seriously belly laughing at this post, and I’m going to share it today with a few of my friends working at startups. Soylent is a subject of ongoing debate in our community. It’s a love/meh/hate thing. I love to cook, I shop pretty much every day to make dinner from fresh ingredients. I also have a coffee and a Soylent powder smoothie for breakfast every day. It saves me time, money, and usually I can skip lunch (which saves me more time and money). It’s the SlimFast shake of the 21st century. (On the other hand, my partner’s gag reflex was triggered like I’ve rarely seen by her first and only sip of the stuff.) I’ve never experienced the explosive diarrhea phenomenon, and I have to wonder how bad you were in your previous life for karma to kick you so hard in the intestines. BTW in the original book and the movie “Soylent” was supposed to be a plant-based food product (“soy” — get it?) that the government ended up making out of recycled corpses because there was no more farmland due to environmental destruction and overpopulation. We’re not there yet, and since the first ingredient on the list for the powder is “soy protein isolate” I’ve always thought the name was cleverly benign. Soylent is also vegan, so even though I often wear a T-shirt declaring my love for “Meat, Fire, Whiskey” I do get some credit from my vegan/vegetarian friends for doing something to reduce cruelty and save the planet. Because I don’t want karma kicking me in my intestines in my next life.
