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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh and don't forget the cheeky suckers that explicitly named their nutritional supplement company Soylent Nutrition, Inc.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i do like soylent tho. i'm gonna go shake one up rn

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now you know what happened to all those immigrant kids at the border

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You shouldn't shake it if it's made from babies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Gotta tenderize them somehow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

is it better than Huel? Huel tasted awful

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It varies from person to person

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my experience none of them taste great, but if you make them part of your daily flow you get over it pretty quickly. I've heard good things about the newer pre-mixed and flavored ones, but I got to a good place with my nutrition a few years ago and stopped using pretty much all meal replacements.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

so I'm curious, do you just not eat any actual food anymore other than Soylent?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Exact opposite! I know the language was flowery there but I basically never eat Huel/Soylent anymore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

its an option, but most ppl do eat food still. simply because they enjoy the taste more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly I never really got meal replacements like it's basically a drink so you are still eating your just not chewing so what's the point is the point to not cook is it that you just don't want to move your jaw is this just something I can't comprehend because I'm autistic what

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

personally i want to get at least 1000 kcal a day in soylent, so that i'm sure i get SOME of my rdas. otherwise i eat a lot of bean and cheese burritos. they are maybe 1/3 of what i eat besides soylent. the rest is like... whatever my wife makes or fast food.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i drank a lot of huel. none of the flavors were great (for me).

i switched to soylent this month. the "original" flavor is just completely inoffensive. it reminds me of milk. i just hit 1040 kcal on soylent today.

i did get some of the strawberry flavor that mixes into it. that was very good, but i don't need it every day. i'm happy just to drink the original.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Soylent is way better than Huel. I've been consuming at least a serving of Soylent a day for the past four or five years, I've tried a few different brands including huel and they were all significantly worse than Soylent ready to drink or Soylent powder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's like whoever is offering up these names and convincing them to use them is trying to tell consumers and workers something in the countries they work and operate. That a rental service is literally named Hertz is pretty on the nose even without all the movie culture references.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not too versed on movie references but certainly know about Hertz Rent-a-car, what's the joke here?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago