I realize that is has absolutely nothing to do with eating dead bodies, but I’m not sure that I’d be willing to do a month on Soylent (yes that’s its real name).
(article is the third one down)
and the video:
The principals look like guys who never learned to cook, and lived off ramen and peanut butter all through college. Now they think eating is a chore, and just a problem to be solved.
I’ve kept their site as a bookmark since first hearing of it - actually wouldn’t be surprised if it was on the Dope. I’d love to try it for a week or two, unfortunately they won’t be shipping outside the US for a while yet. 
ETA: FYI FI (hah), I don’t think the idea is that eating is a chore, rather that preparing food can be a chore, and taking care to have a balanced diet can be a chore.
Worst product name ever.
Plus, we already have Ensure.
Now Bachelor Chow, that’s a friendly sounding product I’d buy.
The difference between soylent and batchelor chow is that the chow really needs to be a dry kibble, or at least a solid chunk like a small caramel of some sort that can be munched like pretzels or chips.
I love to shop, prepare and eat food - it is a kinesthetic and aesthetic sort of thing for me [I also love fingerpainting, it is the aspergers in me.] But I really can understand the frustration with trying to eat medically approved healthy as well, it can and does take time to do properly, and for many people it is one thing they are just exasperated with and would welcome just being able to open a box, dump some crunchies in a bowl and get it over with.
It isn’t that they would never ever eat anything except the chow, the original inventor actually says in an interview that he would eat the occasional meal of real food - but he just wanted to save the time of dealing with the shopping, storing, making and cleaning up after dealing with meals. Hell, I can perfectly understand this myself, and would actually do kibble for breakfast and lunch every day if they could come up with something in perhaps 5 or 6 flavors that didn’t taste like a health aid.
There was a fantastic thread back in 2010 -Why don’t they make People Kibble? that you may be interested in.
Make that 2001, although it was revived as a zombie in 2010.
Yeah I read that article: Geeks who think they are universal geniuses, and smarter than everyone else, because they are good at math and computer programming, coming up with a dreadful “solution” to a non-problem in a field they clearly do not understand and have not bothered to study more than very superficially.
This is on a par with the level of political, economic and ethical understanding demonstrated by the guy the other month who wanted silicon valley to secede from the USA because, you know, taxes and regulations bad! and geeks and venture capitalists, because they are so smart and “enterprising”, can easily run a perfect society and solve all human problems (except getting a girlfriend who isn’t just there for the money, perhaps).
Even ‘Bachelor Chow’ shouldn’t be green & have a 50/50 chance that there is mold in it.
Fiber. Be. Damned. No… Just. No.
Bachelor Chow has to make its own gravy when you pour water on it.
Damn. Spoilered!
Man, did a geek piss in your cheerios this morning or something?
I would definitely not call it a “non-problem.” I and many people I know would eat something that required no preparation and was cheap. Why do you think fast food exists? People wouldn’t eat it all the time of course. But they would when it was convenient.
Or milk. Any milk-soluble semisolids out there? 
One reason it is a non-problem is because fast food already exists (and not only tastes a lot better, but is probably better for you, so long as you don’t order the same fast food every day). So do liquid “nutritional shakes” such as Ensure, if a pizza or a burger is to much trouble to order. This guy, out of his ignorance and arrogance, has re-invented the wheel (except his wheel is square).
Ars Technica had a series on this, where someone tries eating it exclusively:
Intro
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Pretty fun reading
Brian
So because food exists, we don’t need any new kinds of food? Interesting idea.
Add me to the “I’d use if for breakfasts or occasional lunchs” group. Some times, I just don’t care much what I eat, but I’d prefer something easy and somewhat healthy. And no, most fast food isn’t healthy for you, no matter how much you rotate the offerings.
Finally read the blog about Soylent for 5 days. I love his ability to describe things - especially the gas issue:p
I would be interested in trying it for a month rather than a week, it would chart better at that length. I do wonder if he can whip the chalkiness - textures in liquids is a vomit inducing thing in people, some people have issues with the gelatinous sliminess of the thickened liquids in hospital, and it sounds like the chalkiness would make it like drinking kaopectate as a meal substitute. [health shakes are texturized to be milkshake like.] I actually liked the old vanilla-mint flavor the old kaopectate used to have so perhaps it would work for this.
I wonder if it would be better received if you could manage chocolate, strawberry or even savory flavors like turkey gravy or beef gravy.
I’ve seen the video pitching the product and have read a few articles about it, and the thing that strikes me is how the guys behind it seem to think that it will change the world. They appear to envision people consuming Soylent for virtually all their meals, and apparently think that the time and energy to prepare meals is a rare luxury. I see this product as being used more as a last resort or convenience than as a staple; something to grab when you oversleep and don’t have time to pack a lunch, or an easy option when you get home from work late and can’t be bothered to cook/clean up. Basically ramen that’s good for you but doesn’t taste good. Will they be able to find a market for it and make some money in the process? Sure. Will it supplant traditional food as the most common form of sustenance for even a sizable minority of the population? I very strongly doubt it.
It kind of reminds me of Dean Kamen saying that he has this ground-breaking new invention that will fundamentally change the way mankind moves around. He claimed that cities would be built/restructured based on “IT.” In reality, he had invented a cool toy for rich people and the dorkiest mode of transportation for airport police and tourist groups. The invention itself was pretty neat, but simply didn’t live up to the hype.