Not so long ago , it seemed like Soylent was improving the ineffective everyday outgrowth of " eating " a " form " of " meals . " That clip could be spend coding , citizenry ! The company ’s shakes and bar offera dystopian vision of nutritionand food consumption that has achieved popularity in Silicon Valley circles , despite being named after a fabricated processedfood product made out of human remains .
UnlikeSoylent Green , though , Soylent ’s new snack bar give people indocile diarrhea .
Thebarswere almost too good to be lawful : 12.5 % of your casual nutritionary necessity , vegan , lowly - glycemic , calibre macros , full of micronutrients , destroy your GI parcel of land , and make you poop uncontrollably . Good thing you’re able to cypher on the pot !
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client took to aReddit threadto portion out their Soylent - hasten bodily role woe , including intense nausea , frequent regurgitation , and bad slip of the runs .
That sounds rough . While snack bar victims continued to share in their corporate misery online , the fellowship paid attention . Soylentissued a statement on its websiteon October 12th to say it was pulling the bars from its store .
" It has lately come to our attention that a belittled number of our client have get gastrointestinal military issue after consuming Soylent Bars , " the statement read , which is the cultivated way of saying people could n’t stop throwing up and ingest looseness of the bowels all over the place . " As a precautionary measure , we are stanch all Soylent Bar purchase and shipments and are advising our customer to discard any remaining bars in their possession . "
Just a company doing the right matter and making trusted its customers … oh , just banter . Last week , SoylenttoldVice , " After these reports , we have retrieved persist bars from our consumers and have in person consumed many of the remain bar without adverse burden . We have also sent them for further microbiological examination and all tests have fall back negative . base on this we remain very confident in the safety of the bars . " That ’s a pleasant image , a clump of Soylent employees chowing down on their own BAR , waitress to see if an onslaught of looseness of the bowels comes .
At least affected customers will be getting a full refund for their inauspicious purchases . Is it enough to make up for spend the better part of their day on the toilet ? That ’s hard to put a Mary Leontyne Price on , though someone should write an algorithm that can calculate the potential efficiencies lost .
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