Fascinating, but too expensive to try just for fun lol
What’s the price? I can’t find it on the website ^^’
$120-130 per 10 270g boxes (~300 calories per box)
Thank you very much!
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The writer makes it sound pretty awful, but I wouldn’t mind trying them if they were really cheap. According to this
the small squares have been designed to be eaten in either four or six-piece meals, and the company is offering meal boxes that range from sweet to savory, priced from USD $5.50 to USD $7.99
I’ve tried meal replacement/complete meal drinks like Soylent and Super Fuel, which aren’t too bad once in a while and don’t taste completely awful. I think the same crowd/target demographic might like the squares.
it’s funny because the writer basically observes exactly that–that these seem to be almost tailor made for people who are obsessive about caloric intake and therefore take the tradeoff of the sheer blandness of it all:
I eat for nutrition and pleasure, and I value that pleasure in part because I was raised by someone who didn’t. My mother was a compulsive calorie-counter, so to her, food was full of tempting, enemy substances. Whenever she saw someone eat, she’d mutter the fat content like an oracle foretelling certain disaster, and the only thing that eased her near-constant anxiety was the act of measuring, counting, and restricting units of food.
She would have loved these squares. They’re reproductions of food with the calories, fat, and sugar removed. They’re neat and precise. Easy to measure and control. They’re food beaten into bland submission, where even the joy of eating has been diminished. There is no temptation here. No pleasure. Just food units.
There are probably people in the world who’d get a kind of stoic satisfaction out of eating dystopian food units.
ymmv on whether this is a good way to achieve that, though, even ignoring the current price these go for.
