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Fun with food
Dec. 19th, 2014 08:11 pmOne of the engineers at work bought a package of Soylent out of curiosity. He sent an email letting everyone know there was a pitcher in the fridge if they wanted to try some. My comment was that what he meant was that he'd tried it and it was awful and now he was trying to foist it off on the rest of us. He replied that he still couldn't decide what he thought of it, so kinda guilty and kinda innocent.
So of course I had to try it.
Which was clearly the thought process of like half the company. No one would have ever bought it, but since it was there...so we all milled around taking tiny sips of the stuff. The final verdict was that it smells like vanilla and tastes like liquid pancake batter mixed with play-doh. It's not actually the taste that's the problem--it's the texture, something like halvah mixed with water to the consistency of watery cement. It sticks to your mouth.
If we have a catastrophic environmental collapse and this is all there is to eat, I could eat it. I would prefer not to eat it again.
In other news, I think I may have managed one of the odder Whole Foods purchases, combining suet and vegan butter.
So of course I had to try it.
Which was clearly the thought process of like half the company. No one would have ever bought it, but since it was there...so we all milled around taking tiny sips of the stuff. The final verdict was that it smells like vanilla and tastes like liquid pancake batter mixed with play-doh. It's not actually the taste that's the problem--it's the texture, something like halvah mixed with water to the consistency of watery cement. It sticks to your mouth.
If we have a catastrophic environmental collapse and this is all there is to eat, I could eat it. I would prefer not to eat it again.
In other news, I think I may have managed one of the odder Whole Foods purchases, combining suet and vegan butter.
