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| This isn’t Soylent, its a Bram’s Mix with Heath Bars. Hey I can’t do a post without a pic and I don’t want to get sued for violating somebody’s copyright! |
The New Yorker magazine had an article recently by Liddie Whiddicombe “The End of Food” about a company who has found a substitute for food. The company and the product is called Soylent and supposedly it is all scientifically designed to meet all human nutrition needs and one can live on it for months.
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| Lucky’s Hamburger with trifle oil fries |
I didn’t care about those claims or the product, what intrigued me is that the article discussed the two types of eating. One type of eating is social and experiential where eating is lots of fun. The other type of eating is utilitarian where you eat because you are hungry and that can lead to a lot of bad type eating like fast food or fries, chips. You know crap food that is bad for you.
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| Sushi and other stuff from the Sushi Place |
That really hit a chord with me. I love eating and social eating most of all and my favorite dining partner is my wife Heather but I also like eating with friends and coworkers and talking about the food. I hate crap generic food. I really do. I also hate eating by myself. Heather and I went to New Orleans years ago and we had a great time. I went without her two years ago and it was completely different. I was at a convention and so I ate lots of hotel banquet food. In a city of great food I hardly ate any of it.
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| Impressions Beef Stew, Carrot Cake, and French Bread |
Also, when I’m traveling on business through rural Oklahoma I hate stopping at small country cafes in small towns. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings and I’m speaking in general terms but I’m also saying as a veteran of eating in numerous small town cafe’s in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi I can say that most of them are pretty bad. All I can say is thank Heaven for Subway!
Before Subway and before Walmart killed retail in small towns my secret was to find the local grocer and go to the back where the butcher counter was and have the butcher make me sandwich. Now, those were good. Big thick slices of meat and cheese and lots of veggies. I haven’t been able to do that in years. (Has anybody else done that?) There is still a grocery store here in Tulsa that will do that for you.
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| Pho!!! |
This Soylent product comes as a powder and you mix it up with water and sip through a straw. Supposedly it has the consistency of watered down pancake batter and tastes like cream of wheat. You know I could do that. Instead of stopping at some crappy place I could be sipping on my soylent while take photographs or hunting geocaches or just walking around. Seriously I really would rather do that than stop at a cafe. Unless I knew that the cafe was good.
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| Coneys |
What about you? Are you ready to sip on some Soylent for lunch or dinner in place of crap food?
Even when I’m too lazy to cook, which is frequently, I want REAL food. This sounds very suspect.
No way Jose. I got the figure I’ve got through eating real food and that’s the way it will be until the day I die.
I don’t think so! I like food too much. All these pictures have now made me hungry!
Nope, real food for me!! I didn’t get to be 81 years old by sipping soy!! I’ve been wearing the same size clothes for 30 years so it has worked for me!!
I’ll take those dogs from Coney Islander over Soylent any day. Coney Islander is a Tulsa institution and will be here long after Soylent Green has come and gone.
Really, Yogi, if the food looks/tastes like crap, I don’t eat it! I’m pretty picky in my old age. I like real food, simply prepared. I must admit to you that for about a year now, I’ve been having a green drink when I get up in the morning that supposedly has billions of probiotics and every nutrient known to man. It tastes like the underside of a lawnmower (in my imagination). However, since I’ve been feeling really good on it, I choke it down. Do you think I’m a candidate for Soylent?
No way. I’ll take real good for you food preferably with my favorite dining partner. My mother always said that there are people who live to eat and people who eat to live. I try to fall somewhere in between. No fake food though EVER.
Wasn’t there a science fiction novel/movie called Soylent Green? Didn’t they eat people in that movie? (Or was that a nightmare I had?)