Six Sacks of Sickeningly Sweet Soylent
Jul. 26th, 2017 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterAs some of you might know, I consume about 7 or 8 bags of Soylent a month, choosing to use it for my breakfast and lunch (most days) at work. Not out of any ideological reasons, but because it's fast, cheap, and easy to have for breakfast and lunch at work, then I have a normal supper. It's not really too bad to drink, most times, even unflavored. It's got a neutral, slightly-sweet flavor that isn't the best thing in the world but isn't something to get sick of either.
This week, when I opened the first bag from my most recent batch and mixed it, it tasted like someone had dumped a sugar bowl (or, more likely, a sucralose bowl) in it. It was drinkable, but only barely. And it turns out I'm not alone in experiencing this; a number of other users got the same sickeningly sweet bags.
Fortunately, the Soylent people are sending me replacements. But they don't want the remaining six super-sweet ones back. What do I do with them? I'm not going to drink them, but tossing them out seems like a waste.
This week, when I opened the first bag from my most recent batch and mixed it, it tasted like someone had dumped a sugar bowl (or, more likely, a sucralose bowl) in it. It was drinkable, but only barely. And it turns out I'm not alone in experiencing this; a number of other users got the same sickeningly sweet bags.
Fortunately, the Soylent people are sending me replacements. But they don't want the remaining six super-sweet ones back. What do I do with them? I'm not going to drink them, but tossing them out seems like a waste.