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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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[–] VictoriaAScharleau@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I don't smoke (any more), and I'm just glad they are shipping again

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They added the people finally

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i wish I was eating the rich

*That's what I'll think when I'm medicating my self with Soylent; that they're hiding assassinated oligarch corpses in my poop by turning them into powder and mixing them into batches before packing. Thus they need the flavouring to cover up the taste of rich person corpse.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I dunno who that is but it's fuckin' badass. Like they put on some amazing make up and lipstick, did their nails and put on a heckin' leather jacket before killing someone with a bow and arrow. We need more assassins like them.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Its Alex (Lana Pellay) from eat the rich and I insist you take the day off work to watch it right now.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

Awesome, thanks!

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago
[–] Labotomized@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel that way about everything low calorie or “healthier” when they add the fucking fake sugar. I wish they’d just make things less sweet instead of fakely sweet with chemical aftertaste. It drives me crazy. The powers of this shithole country seem to want everyone addicted to sugar/sweetness.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Most of those sugar replacements still raise peoples blood sugar too, which makes the whole thing pointless.

[–] ToffeeIsForClosers@piefed.ca 7 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Soylent has always been a little too sugary, IMO.

I believe they had a bunch of supply issues over the last year or so, at least for the Canadian customers. Maybe that led to some ingredient changes.

During this time, I researched and compared the nutrient and ingredient breakdowns of a lot of other products. I settled on HolFood. A healthier option, close in price, local to Canada and they include a cool shaker bottle (that has additional powder storage attachments) with their startup kit order.

I recommend trying it out.

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I’ll personally recommend my favorite, Garden of Life Chocolate Meal Replacement powder

Good looking out. I'd just resubbed to Soylent recently too...

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago

I already would have been using Hol if they had an acceptable vegan option, but they use whey protein and I'm not down with that.

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I stopped drinking it during COVID-19 when I think they changed their ingredients and the new shipment gave me diarrhea.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 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.

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

I have to add black coffee to mine to get it down. Think I’m going to try OWYN, but it’s more of a protein shake than a full meal replacement.