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[Anonymous No.11765254]

seriously though, why do people drink this? interested in honest non-meme answers

[Anonymous No.11765261]

>>11765254
>i love that stuff!!

[Anonymous No.11765272]

>>11765254
I have never once see a person drink these. I've never seen them in stores, and I've never seen an advertisement for them. I'm honestly convinced at this point that their supposed popularity is a lie this board made up.
That said I would assume a person would drink them because they are (((allegedly))) trendy and would be an easy thing to drink if you were having a busy day and didn't want to stop for food.

[Anonymous No.11765275]

>>11765254
i bought a case of the cafe coffiest one a while back. Its not bad, tasted like slightly off coffee milkshake. Again, not bad. It got me caffeinated and it worked decently well as a meal replacement for breakfast. For the price its not worth it and if what they say about soy giving you tits is true, just more reason to not get it. Overall the meme way over-hypes them. They're OK but not worth the price.

[Anonymous No.11765290]

>>11765254
I like tiddies on my girlfriend (male).

[Anonymous No.11765317]

>>11765254
Only leftist cucks drink it and "sovereign citizens" do as well strangely

[Anonymous No.11765454]

>>11765272
This. The only reason why anyone actually had a bottle (myself included) was because the dudes from the company gave people bottles for sampling. It tastes like bleh btw.

[Anonymous No.11765466]

>>11765254
Sometimes I want something moderately healthy and don't have time for making food. I'll leave one in the work fridge as a backup meal in case I have to stay during a meal time.

It's not great but it's better than other "meal in a bottle" sorts of drinks, and it gets the job done in a pinch.

[Anonymous No.11765510]

This is all I know of this product.

[Anonymous No.11765518]

In the beginning it was marketed hard to silicone valley turbonerds who take pride in being overworked and "don't have time to eat". Now its just a meme

[Anonymous No.11765529]

>>11765272
>I've never seen them in stores

Flyover detected.

[Anonymous No.11765595]

>>11765529
I live on the east coast of the united states and have been to every state on the eastern seaboard. Never seen the shit.

[jevin No.11765616]

>>11765595
i live in ur exact location but ive seen them in stores ONCE although i have a bad memory and that might have just been on my trip down in florida. i kind of want to try one but i also dont want to die of cancer this stuff looks really weird

[Anonymous No.11765898]

people drink them at my uni a lot, i tried one once for free and it was the worst shit i ever put in my mouth
it's like someone wanted to make soymilk even worse
i just don't get it
it did fill me up pretty well though

[Anonymous No.11765978]

>>11765254
Don't want to drink milk

[Anonymous No.11766035]

>>11765898
>it did fill me up pretty well though
That's why. They serve the same purpose as energy bars - quick food you don't have to think about. Taste is secondary

[Anonymous No.11766065]

>>11765254
"Fuck, I woke up late!" is my reason. Keep a few in my desk at work for mornings like that.

[Anonymous No.11766107]

I know a few college students who survive on it since they're overworked and too lazy to cook.

My old boss bought a huge supply of them as he used to skip lunch, but he got tired of it real quickly, and was giving it away to anyone who could put up with it.

Tastes like drinking pancake batter.

[Anonymous No.11766636]

>>11765510
I can't believe narcissa is still alive and still streams daily, essentially torturing himself that his best speedrun in breath of the wild is a full 40 minutes behind the record holder.

[Anonymous No.11767537]

I'm going to give into the meme. Where do I buy this shit and what's the long term ramifications of having this as my only meal for the day?

[Anonymous No.11767541]

it's so futuristic, I love SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! buh buh buh buh bill nye the FUCKING PEDOPHILE

[Anonymous No.11767604]

>>11766065
>>11766107

these kind of reasons are the only ones that seem to make sense to me.

I have also seen them in gas stations and that makes sense to if you are on a road trip or something and want to replenish some calories for cheap and without the shit inducing results of real food.

its a convenience item, I'm never going to drink it because I like food too much but it has a niche that does make sense.

the people that turn it into a principle dietary component are all insane though. For real

[Anonymous No.11767666]

>>11765254
>Cafe Coffiest
>Cafe Chai
my fucking sides

[Anonymous No.11767672]

I drink one for breakfast. For me it's strawberry chilled. The cafe chai is okay too but has caffeine which makes me anxious.

I'm too lazy to make breakfast and too cheap to buy breakfast so I can roll into the office with it and drink it. Soy memes aside, it's way better than nothing. I usually sleep until the last minute. It's healthy af.

[Anonymous No.11767680]

>>11765254
I had a roommate that would drink this shit and would never rinse the bottle before throwing it in the recycle bin. It stank worse than old milk.

[Anonymous No.11767689]

>>11767680
Wow what an asshole. You can't recycle it if it's not rinsed lmao

[Anonymous No.11767715]

>>11765254
I have a friend who would drink these all the time and do a bunch of other gay food related shit. Hes a marine now, go figure

[Anonymous No.11767717]

>>11767689
In the city I’m living now, I know the recycling guys would never touch a bin that would smell as nasty as if it had just one of those bottles half rinsed in it- they don’t put up with garbage mixed with the recycling. But in my old place where I was living with the roommate, the recycle guy that came to our block was really chill and would take everything in our bins every time. I dunno if the soiled soylent bottles or potentially the whole contaminated bin content got rinsed and recycled or thrown in the garbage, but they still always got rid of them for us.

[Anonymous No.11767738]

>>11765254
When I was in basic, one of my friends got sent a lot of protein shit and got one of the coffe flavored ones. It was alright, not worth what they cost or the long-term ramifications though.

[Anonymous No.11768266]

>>11765254
The creator was a weird autist who hates food and especially cooking food.
He views food as nothing more than fuel for his body and wanted to formulate nutritional gruel so he'd never have to cook again.

Everyone else got memed.

[Anonymous No.11768285]

>>11768266
Except perhaps for the community of people out there making their own versions of this, some of which have no soy in them at all.

[Anonymous No.11768289]

>>11768285
What does soy have to do with anything?

[Anonymous No.11768297]

>>11768289
Soylent does have soy protein as one of its primary ingredients, which is one of the reason it gets memed on by the /pol/ crowd so much. Might have some other soy based stuff in it as well, don't recall offhand.

[Anonymous No.11768301]

>>11765518
>>11766107
I'm a medfag and I work way more than silicon valley faggots and I still have time to eat 2-3 decent meals every day. Nobody has no time to eat, it's just a question of laziness and shitty time management.

[Anonymous No.11768307]

>>11768297
Literally didn't mention /pol/ at all, why are you bringing it up.

[Anonymous No.11768348]

I used to down this exclusively in college because I took the bus
Asston of books (no digital and couldnt be fucked to scan 250 pages half a dozen times), laptop, and some other equipment on top of regular schooling material meant no food to carry for 12 hours at school
So instead of hemorrhaging money using the food trucks or whatever I'd just bag some powder and a liter and a half of water, was okay for my purposes but nobody should buy the indiviudal bottles, that completely destroys the purpose
>>11767680
That shit is scary, I often wouldnt litter my plastic bottles and just threw them in the back of my car at the bus station and every single one would inflate with black mold after like a day

[Anonymous No.11768468]

>>11765510
It's not just the soylent to be fair, he was clearly having a mental breakdown around the time that this began and has only been spiralling ever since.

[Anonymous No.11769872]

I was offered a discount coupon from one of the TAs at my university so I gave it a try. It was like a tasty pancake batter, not bad. It's expensive though and doesn't have much protein so I don't bother. I'd drink it if they sold it in stores.

[Anonymous No.11769904]

Canuck here, I recently went to the US and saw these and I was gonna try it but last minute I decided not to. I kind of regret it since I wanna see what the "hype" is about and also for the meme.

[Anonymous No.11769907]

i usually drink about 1 a weekday between breakfast and lunch to stay full/get in some easy calories. ama

[Anonymous No.11769919]

>>11765272
>easy thing to drink if you were having a busy day and didn't want to stop for food.
Carnation instant breakfast does the exact same thing and has the bonus feature of not tasting like shit.

[Anonymous No.11769963]

>>11769919
I used to drink that. It was pretty good, but there came a point where I needed to go for cheaper options.

I see Ensure in the grocery store and I sorta want to try it, does anyone know about that one?

[Anonymous No.11769978]

>>11769907
how big is your gf (male)'s tits

[Anonymous No.11769990]

>>11765510
Soylent doesn't actually contain soy protein though, it's just named after Soylent Green, a food from a science fiction book

[Anonymous No.11770012]

>>11769990
>contains soy

[Anonymous No.11770082]

>seen as "trendy"
>allegedly low impact (low animal resources)
>"""healthy"""
>easy meal, just order it and drink up

To be honest though, I have never seen them IRL, and I live in hipster-ridde Boulder, CO. I truly believe it's an online thing and their marketing makes them seem more popular than they actually are.

IMO, if you can afford soylent, you can afford decent and healthy ingredients to prepare actual food with. Cooking is a joy and these people are missing out on the experience.

[Anonymous No.11770316]

>>11769963
Did you buy the powdered instant breakfast or the premixed? The powder is cheaper and tastes better.

[Anonymous No.11770347]

>>11768297
>which is one of the reason it gets memed on by the /pol/ crowd so much
Doesn't help that the name comes from a fictional food replacement that was made from human corpses.

[Anonymous No.11770366]

As a non-meme response here you go.

I started buying soylent I think in 2016, I'll normally buy 100ish bottles once or twice a year. I think the shit tastes great, like liquefied cheerios, which is the only cereal I enjoy. Its really nice when you need it. My normal job is a 12 hour shift of hard labor. During lunch I have 30 minutes and no microwave. Popping one or two of these feels much better for me than a shitty coldcut sandwich or the like. It does exactly what it says too: it makes you full and gives your body nutrients. I'm having a bunch of tooth work done these last few months and its also really great when I'm literally incapable of "eating" anything. As a complete food replacement I think its stupid, but its super convenient to have as an option. Can't really vouch for the various flavors, the rest all taste like shit to me.

[Anonymous No.11771564]

>>11765275
the coffee one tastes like literally dirt my friend
it almost tastes like a sour indian dish
bought a 12 pack when it was reduced down to next to nothing
i have 11 left

[Anonymous No.11771744]

>>11765510
>>11766636
I wonder how John "Fucking" Numbers lives with himself knowing he beat Cosmo so badly at the Nintendo World Championship that he turned into a tranny

[Anonymous No.11771753]

>>11765254
How long since you have been asking for non-meme answers, I don't remember, like couple months now?

[Anonymous No.11771865]

>>11770347
I have never seen anyone come at it from that perspective. It's purely because it contains soy derived ingredients.

[Anonymous No.11771895]

>>11765254
I never bought the product itself but I use a DIY recipe and almost always keep a pitcher in my fridge stocked up. I started in 2013 because I was programming a map generator for a game with a tight deadline and wanted to eliminate all possible downtime. By far my biggest source of downtime other than sleep (I'm very particular about getting enough sleep each night and have always found it a net productivity loss when I skip any) was cooking and eating food. I'm not usually on such a tight schedule nowadays but I still do it for convenience.

>>11768285
Funny thing is Soylent originally had no soy at all too. They were just going for the whole 'Soylent Green' thing. They added soy protein to it in 2016 in part to avoid any potential complaints about false advertisement due to its name.

[Anonymous No.11771903]

>>11765254
literally for the same reasons someone would drink a whey protein shake, or Slim-Fast
>>11766107
this is literally the reason why it was invented, an engineer who felt he was spending too much time on cooking thought "gee couldn't you just put all your macros into a fucking bottle?"
desu it's stupid expensive for what it is
it's cheaper to just eat one meal a day and slim-fast for two meals, or get huel, which is the same damn thing but less expensive

[Anonymous No.11771980]

>>11770012
The idea that phytoestrogens in soy act the same as hormonal estrogen in the body is just broscience that spreads because of le numale wojak. Actual studies into the effects of soy on testosterone levels in men have suffered from small sample sizes, and not yielded statistically significant evidence of a decrease in T from what a reasonable dietary intake of soya would be when repeated.
An article detailing some meta-analyses is available here if anyone's interested:
https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(10)00368-7/fulltext

Soylent was actually found to have high levels of lead in it though, and they've been very dodgy about getting around legal requirements to notify consumers of it. Apparently they get their ingredients cheap as shit from China and have made no attempt to remedy the problem:
https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/18/9171521/soylent-prop-65-labeling-unsafe-chemicals

[Anonymous No.11772274]

>>11768307
Because /pol/ memes on anything soy.
>>11770347
It's a smart name.

[Anonymous No.11772746]

>>11770316
I’ve tried both, I think. Had the powder on hand for a while, but I liked the convenience of the premixed.

[Anonymous No.11772751]

>>11765254
- They like the taste
- They like the convenience
- They can afford it
- They like that it doesn't take a lot of time

Why does anyone eat/drink anything?

[Anonymous No.11772766]

>>11771980
bu-but trump!!! Soy bad!!

[Anonymous No.11772847]

I've never had the chance to try it or ever seen it in stores or seen anyone drink it which is a surprise since Nashville is extremely hipster now

[Anonymous No.11772889]

>>11765254
Superior product coming at ya
I think some people drink Soylent as a sort of denial movement. Like how soy boys only own pitbulls

[Anonymous No.11772946]

>>11772889
>one serving is over half a pound
fuck's sake

[Anonymous No.11772985]

>>11772889
Also to note -the phytoestrogens are removed from the small amount of soy lecithin in the shakes. Unfortunately entirely soy free gainers are 2x the price

[Anonymous No.11773008]

>>11772985
Do you have any idea if the soy protein isolates commonly seen in similar products contain any phytoestrogenic compounds? It seems at least possible to me that they wouldn't but I am no expert.

[Anonymous No.11773016]

>>11765254
The couple of guys at work that drink them do so because its faster and easier than bringing lunch. Theres also one guy that does it because he wants to squeeze in that extra 400 calories

[Anonymous No.11773048]

>>11772889

>Workout hard throughout my late teens, mid 20s
>Drink this shit cuz im thin as fuck regardless of time in gym
>skip putting on muscle and go straight to fat
>went from skinny to fat because I just gave up trying

life is suffering

[Anonymous No.11773069]

>>11773048
Beefcake! BEEFCAKE!

[Anonymous No.11773072]

>>11773008
That is where the difference between a protein ISOLATE vs. a protein CONCENTRATE comes into play.

A concentrate contains all sorts of other compounds, including phytoestrogens. An Isolate is pure and does not contain those things, which is why they are generally more costly.

....not that phytoestrogens actually do anything anyway.

[Anonymous No.11773079]

>>11773072
>....not that phytoestrogens actually do anything anyway.
Yeah, but given people's thresholds for being convinced of stuff like that it can be easier to just go for the "they aren't even present" angle.

[Anonymous No.11773115]

>>11773008
From what I researched the soy comes from soy lecithin as a thickener. It's very small amounts that would end up totalling less than like 100mg of actual soy (you'd need a ton more for any effect). I believe most other products contain soy in a similar way

I had thought I had it right >>11772985 but when I tried to find more I couldn't find anything regarding the phytoestrogens being removed. I thought I had researched it in the past but I think I came to the conclusion that soy licithin is in a ton of stuff and doesn't have near the effect of actual soy

[Anonymous No.11773123]

>>11765254
I tried it once for the novelty, it's mediocre

[Anonymous No.11773129]

>>11773115
>I couldn't find anything regarding the phytoestrogens being removed
So you don't know what the word "isolate" means"?

[Anonymous No.11773137]

>>11773129
That doesn’t necessarily mean phytoestrogens aren’t bound to proteins

[Anonymous No.11773140]

>>11773129
Im talking about the mass gainer shakes. The soy in them is licithin. I didn't see soy isolate anywhere

[Anonymous No.11773147]

>>11773129
Soy protein isolate and soy lecithin are two different things, both being discussed at the moment though.

[Anonymous No.11773171]

>>11773008
If it worries you get huel instead.

[Anonymous No.11773173]

>>11773140
Check different products then. I was into bodybuilding about 15 years ago when I was in college. At least at that time the products which used Isolate certainly put it on the label since that was a major marketing point. If it doesn't say isolate then I would assume that it contains phytoestrogens.

I also recall that the various protein powders and "mass gainers" also came in egg, whey, or soy versions. For some reason I was allergic to the egg ones even though I can eat normal eggs without any problem. I looked for products which contained whey protein, not soy, and also looked for the word "isolate" rather than "concentrate" on the label.

>>11773147
Yes, I'm aware. If you want to avoid the phytoestrogens then seek out protein isolate, not soy lecithin.

[Anonymous No.11773785]

i drank a few packs of joylent, the european variant of soylent now labeled jimmyjoy, in 2015. it tasted like shit.
then joylent came out with twennybar in 2016 and those were actually pretty damn good. they tasted a lot better than the drinks and they were even more convenient because you didnt need a shaker. loved to use them while camping in the forrest or while cycling
stopped purchasing them a year or so ago because jimmyjoy introduced this stupid subscription policy and i had subscriptions with a passion (they made the nonsubscription purchase a lot more expensive)

[Anonymous No.11774956]

>>11771865
It was the first thing that came to my mind when I learned about it. Guess my boomer is showing.

>>11771980
>Actual studies into the effects of soy on testosterone levels in men have suffered from small sample sizes, and not yielded statistically significant evidence of a decrease in T from what a reasonable dietary intake of soya would be when repeated.
That's exactly the same thing they used to say about tobacco. It's no secret that nutritional science has been captured when it comes to certain products, and soy has a very conspicuous confounding variable (fermentation) that is routinely ignored by researchers and so called experts. Eat soy if you're willing to risk the consequences, but don't go around deluding people into thinking it's safe because le science men say it's probably fine.

[Anonymous No.11774963]

>>11774956
Its what they say about every fucking thing. Do you think lobbyists have some moral high ground to NOT take money from Big Food ABC?

>and soy has a very conspicuous confounding variable (fermentation) that is routinely ignored by researchers and so called experts
I’ve yet to see soy studies that dont focus entirely on unfermented soy other than epidemiological studies

[Anonymous No.11775024]

>>11774963
Literally anything from Asia. "The China Study" is like a soy loving vegan's Bible, but it tells us nothing about the unfermented, heavily GMO crap that dumb white people eat.

>Do you think lobbyists have some moral high ground to NOT take money from Big Food ABC?
I don't, but what I said also applies to researchers, who most people trust.

[Anonymous No.11776189]

>>11765254
bump

[Anonymous No.11776192]

I think the idea of a complete nutritional drink is cool, but I guess meal replacement shakes existed long before soylent.

[Anonymous No.11776228]

>>11776192
they weren't hip and cool.
It was stuff like Ensure that your grandma and grandpa would drink

[Anonymous No.11776232]

somebody I went to outpatient which is rehab ordered a box of these way after the fact that we attended the same program

[Anonymous No.11776261]

>>11765616
thanks jevin

[Anonymous No.11776346]

OMG OMG OMG!!!!