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Maybe Choose A Better Name?

I have been reading about this supplement that is making people sick and I would guess there is a recall……Soylent….

It’s apparently not just Soylent bars making people sick. The company is now warning customers about its signature meal replacement powder, which has been removed from shelves after a “handful” of users reported cases of diarrhea, vomiting, and other stomach issues, just like with its Food Bars. Though “our tests all came back negative for food pathogens, toxins or outside contamination,” this has “allowed us to shift our focus to whether any one ingredient might be triggering a food intolerance,” the company says in a blog post, per Gizmodo. Soylent’s products have several ingredients in common, but the company notes its premixed drinks appear to be safe.

Soylent says anyone who has consumed version 1.6 of the meal replacement powder without issue can continue, “but if you have had any sensitivities, we suggest discarding whatever is left and letting us know.” The powder ($54 for the equivalent of 28 meals) has found a following among busy Silicon Valley types, and at least some are still willing to stick by the company, per the Los Angeles Times. In fact, many online are upset that they won’t be able to buy more Soylent products for a while. Soylent, however, is already working on a new powder and bar that it says won’t include suspect ingredients, to be available by early 2017 at the latest.

They do not have to worry about me or anyone in my age range.

Why?

Ever hear of “Soylent Green”?

Let me help…….it was a movie……

First, a quick recap: In the movie, the earth is overpopulated and over-polluted. Global warming is in full swing and even rich people have to eat crummy food. The government hands out rations of Soylent products, which are awful, flavorless cubes and loafs of “soy” (actually plankton but really it’s irrelevant cause it’s people) foodstuff that look like red, blue, or green Play-Doh. When you die, you go to a death-a-torium of sorts where you pay a small fee, then watch a really pretty movie filled with scenes from nature and peaceful music. You die quickly and painlessly from a colorless, odorless gas.

Then your body is shipped off and turned into Soylent Green which everyone loves to eat.

Can you see why I may not be interested in a product named “Soylent”?

And what is the new ingredient that will be added in 2017?

Just saying.

24 thoughts on “Maybe Choose A Better Name?”

  1. Amusing. A marketing boo-boo. As soon as I saw the word “Soylent”… and I never even watched the movie. I wonder if the people who got sick unconsciously made the connection?

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  6. Well remember “SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE OF PEOPLE”!

    Never truly got the HorroR of that as from what I saw it made a lot of sense. Killed at least two or three birds with one stone.

    CATZ has it rightz; you die…you smell…they have no way out…they eatz yah. Efficient to my mind. Thatz what i likz about catz. ~~dru~~

    Aside, this is really pretty funny who thought that would be a good name? (aside from me of course) and if the peoplez in the “stuff” iz alreadyz sick well. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?

    https://saywhatumean2say.com/2016/11/04/i-am-a-goddess/

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      1. AS always yes….circle of life…lots of sound, fury music, and no content….. ~~dru~~

        Off her meds again but going back to being dru not goddess………me

        HEY hi Penn, read some of this for you’re own fun an edification.

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