Soylent - its not just green anymore

[BC38]

You'd think that the negative association would be enough to discourage using the name Soylent for a food product - but then I guess they figure that the up and coming generations aren't literate enough to make the connection....

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[Ivan the Butcher]

If the Ad agency can get this "Stuff" to sell under any name, they are worth their weight in Soylent Green!

Ivan

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

"CANNIBALISM ! Don't knock it if you haven't tried it!"

 

[Protocall_Design]

Don't eat the clowns. They taste funny...

 

[Heinz]

Don't eat the clowns. They taste funny...

I had to use a like, we do not have a groan button

 

[venomballistics]

"CANNIBALISM ! Don't knock it if you haven't tried it!"

Told a pair of my coworkers in the event of a desperate situation where we turn to cannibalism, I'll eat you two last.
One, being vegetarian, asked which I'd eat absolutely last ...
Tough call I said ... I like you a bit better ... but you ARE grass fed.

 

[Sam D]

It's less about literacy and more about exposure. I will venture to say that the little wastrels haven't seen Soylent Green and are lucid enough to see that the ingredients list doesn't include people.

 

[BC38]

It's less about literacy and more about exposure. I will venture to say that the little wastrels haven't seen Soylent Green and are lucid enough to see that the ingredients list doesn't include people.

Yeah, but even if people WERE included in the list of ingredients, do you think it would be obvious - or would it be listed as something like "post-humous reconstituted proteins"?

 

[JohnRippert]

None of the targeted demographic are old enough to have seen the movie.

 

[Rustyt1953]

"mechanically separated homogenous sapiens".

 

[9mmPatriot]

Got it on DVD. My kids jaws hit the floor at the end......
You'll get my Soylent Green from MY COLD DEAD HANDS!


Gimme a "Like" if ya get the reference......

 

[quikdraw67]

It's people!!

 

[jeffsmith]

Just to be the "Know it All"
in the Original Movie
there were Several "Soylent" Colors

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[jkmo]

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I wonder how many bugs and other things were in my pancakes this morning??? They tasted alright. Guess I don't have to worry.

 

[BC38]

None of the targeted demographic are old enough to have seen the movie.

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant in the OP when I said
"I guess they figure that the up and coming generations aren't literate enough to make the connection...."

The GenX/Millenials/GenZ haven't seen the movie OR read the book it was based on.

Interestingly enough, the 1973 movie was set 49 years in the future - in 2022!

 

[BC38]

I wonder how many bugs and other things were in my pancakes this morning??? They tasted alright. Guess I don't have to worry.

Good question.

There are FDA standards for how many bug PPM (parts per million) is an acceptable level in things like flour and similar dry goods - like your pancake mix. There is even a standard for what is an acceptable amount of rodent feces in those same dry products.

Its totally understandable when you really look at the processing of those kinds of foods and the multiple points in the process where such things could get introduced into the mix. It's inevitable really.

However, right now there are people at the UN lobbying the FDA to dramatically increase those standards - and to even make powdered bug protein an actual acceptable INGREDIENT to be intentionally added to our food. The climate alarmists are pushing the claim that bugs are a far more efficient, and therefore less environmentally damaging, source of dietary protein than the meat that most of us eat.

Compared to the rest of the world we're kind of squeamish about such things, but hey, John the Baptist's diet was locusts (grasshoppers) and wild honey. I guess if it was good enough for him....

Anybody here want a hot, fresh, bug-kabob?

 

[BigBoy99]

From the FAQ Section of Amazon Website of the product:

Is Soylent made from people?

Big fan of science fiction, are you? Despite having a bit of fun with the name, no bodies were harmed in the making of our products. Our formulas are powered by plants, not people.

 

[quikdraw67]

From the FAQ Section of Amazon Website of the product:

Is Soylent made from people?

Big fan of science fiction, are you? Despite having a bit of fun with the name, no bodies were harmed in the making of our products. Our formulas are powered by plants, not people.

Suuure it is.