20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent 543
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Less than a year ago, Rob Rhinehart published a blog post explaining how he had stopped eating food and begun living entirely on a greyish, macro-nutritious cocktail. Today, he told Motherboard that he's sold more than $2 million worth of Soylent to tens of thousands of post-food consumers worldwide—and that it's on track to ship next month. 'We have crossed $2,000,000 in revenue from over 20,000 customers, with more every day,' Rhinehart told me. 'International demand is really picking up as well.' This despite the fact that Soylent isn't technically on the market yet, and has thus far only been available to beta testers. Rhinehart's company spent much of last year tinkering with the formula—the version he tried first was deficient in sulfur, and contained since-jettisoned ingredients like cow whey. But there's been a steadily building crescendo of publicity—both positive and negative—around the project since its inception."
Re:"Soylent Green is people!" (Score:5, Funny)
thanks for the spoiler alert.
But How Does It Taste? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, I stole that from Futurama
Re:Space Food (Score:3, Funny)
Re:"Soylent Green is people!" (Score:5, Funny)
wait are you saying it's made OF people?
Re:Somebody wasn't paying attention (Score:5, Funny)
I want Soylent Brown.. A tasty coffee/chocolate breakfast version! High in caffeine!
I hope that's what it tastes like.
Re:Somebody wasn't paying attention (Score:3, Funny)
no, it is more like a plant-based version of concrete. You take a little bit in a bowl, add water, add some cooked peas, and a cooked sugarbeet [cut in 1/2in cubes], mix it all together and eat before it hardens.
It winds up hardening to a solid in your stomach, and you lose weight because you can't physically eat as much. It's the cheap, home version of getting your stomach stapled.
Re:"Soylent Green is people!" (Score:5, Funny)
wait are you saying it's made OF people?
I'm not sure. My pal Mitt told me Soylent Green is made of corporations.
Re:"Soylent Green is people!" (Score:5, Funny)
Get over yourself,
I tried that once. Turns out it's quite painful to apply the Many Worlds interpretation locally.
Re:Guy is a loon (Score:5, Funny)
I now have the body of a 12 year old
That's not cool. Let the parents have some closure.
Re:"Soylent Green is people!" (Score:5, Funny)
You want a truly great read, get the book. You want a horrible viewing experience, get the film.
You want to make up your own mind instead of being told what to think by someone on the internet, do both.
For completeness:
You don't care about it: do neither.
Re:No matter it's Soylent or Soylent Green ... (Score:5, Funny)
I wouldn't imagine that the FDA would have much to say, beyond the usual cleanliness checks, etc. that any food company faces.
I dunno - if they find that he's grinding up people to make his "food", they might be pretty pissed.
Re:Soylent Grey is really _____ ! (Score:5, Funny)
It's not green, so it doesn't have people in it yet. So what secret will we discover is the ingredient in Soylent Grey?
Old people
Re:"Soylent Green is people!" (Score:4, Funny)
The spoiler is: Soylent is cut with dog poop. High in nutrition, this substance is found everywhere. Dogs gobble it up like bon bons.
All natural, this, is the secret ingredient in Solyent.
Soylent Brown is poooooodle
Re:"Soylent Green is people!" (Score:5, Funny)
No, that would be Torgo's Executive Powder.
Re:juicers (Score:4, Funny)
You are aware that the "carrots help you see in the dark" thing was a lie the Brits told to try to cover the fact that they had radar? As far as I'm aware there's zero evidence whatsoever that carrots or any nutrient in them does a damned thing for your eyes.
Carrots don't help you see in the dark, but they can prevent you going blind
http://www.blindness.org/index... [blindness.org]
http://www.goldenrice.org/Cont... [goldenrice.org]
That's why I masturbate using carrots. Don't want to go blind!