11 Oct 2014

Soylent

From This Way Up, 1:15 pm on 11 October 2014

The total meal replacement system - it's called Soylent  - "named after the soy lentil burgers in the sci-fi novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966) by Harry Harrison, rather than its much better-known film adaptation Soylent Green (1973) which came up with the cannibalistic plotline" and means you'll never have to plan another meal.

But is it edible?

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