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I loved Soylent, it was the perfect replacement. Easy to make, easy to pack, tasted fine.

Then they added something to it that made it taste disgustingly sweet with an after taste of chemicals. Every time I drink it now I think I'm going to get diabetes and then die of poisoning. Before this I could drink like it was a nice latte, or a cold cup of water on a hot day. But now I have to force it down like cough syrup. It was perfectly fine before, why did they have to change it?

I suppose they were listening to people that ate sweets and smoked cigarettes and complained that soylent tasted like nothing.

Like, I can't overstate how awful it tastes... it's like drinking two cups of melted ice cream with a touch of floor cleaner. What the hell is wrong with them? Did they even test it before shipping it out? I guess they paid people to taste test it which is the dumbest thing to do because that's just paying people to say "Yes, I love it! Five stars!".

It's almost as if the company is controlled by only a few people which opens them up to all sorts of cognitive biases as their world view is warped by their wealth and limited contacts outside their peer group who have similarly warped world views.

I'm hungry now, and even though I have Soylent I can make in less than a minute, I might have to spend a hour or so to... cook food. OH NO. (but actually because my shitty rental has a shitty gas stove with a shitty extraction fan so the whole place smells sour and gross for hours after someones cooked)

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[โ€“] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yikes. Was it the bottled ones? I had to refund a bunch of boxes of those because there was mold on the foil caps.

[โ€“] workerONE@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah bottled. I think I'll give it another try though