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  • Wertheimer [any]
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    2 years ago

    Food is bullshit* and I wish I didn't have to do it. Yes, I've tried Soylent, and it suits my purposes just fine, but it's not affordable for me. So I'm stuck with eating, even though I ate yesterday.

    (* - The reverse is not true. Be careful out there.)

    • spring_rabbit [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Hell yeah, eating is only fun when your body isn't forcing you to do it.

      I like food well enough. I don't like needing food.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I remember there was this whole backlash to soylent because it was cringe engineer nerds who can't cook, but they're right! Having to cook constantly just to survive kinda sucks.

        • FuckYourselfEndless [ze/hir]
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          2 years ago

          Soylent actually partially solves a problem that people have (a deficit in their time and knowledge concerning healthy food preparation/planning) and isn't like some kinda' government OP to replace public benefits meanwhile actual cringe engineer nerds think we need to start drinking untreated water and should defund public water treatment.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      (* - The reverse is not true. Be careful out there.)

      Niu bie is a kind of soup made from the partially digested food found in a cow's rumen, the largest chamber in a cow's stomach.

      Before cooking niu bie, fine grass and herbs are fed to the cattle in advance. After the animals are slaughtered, the undigested food in the stomach is removed and a green smelly liquid is squeezed out of it. Then herbs and condiment like ox gall, Chinese prickly ash, ginger, orange peels and bay leaves are added to the mix, which is then boiled into the hot pot broth.

        • mittens [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I think it probably exists as mostly tourist attraction nowadays, but I saw a person set up a niu bie hot pot on one of those weird "chinese boomers doing old-timey things because of nostalgia" tiktoks so I dunno, it probably does taste like cow manure.

    • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Have you tried powdered Soylent, or the other brands of meal replacements? They're cheaper than the stuff that comes in bottles. (Still a little expensive for me, I use it to fill gaps when I don't have leftovers and haven't had time to cook.)

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        2 years ago

        My discount grocery store usually has some off-brand something-or-other at a reasonable price, but not quite enough to stock up on. I'll probably switch to powdered sooner or later, since the discount grocery's selection is too unreliable to count on.