I'm pretty sure joylent lost me a job once. I was there consulting but they were making good noises about an extension.
Then I tried a week on joylent. I emitted smells I have only previously come across in a hospital. The putrid reak of a gut in very great distress.
It goes away in a few days, said the internet. So I kept faith and held on for a week, then a second.
One morning I came in to find my desk had been moved to the break area. 'we noticed that your are ill so we thought it was better all round if you weren't here with the team'
I dropped joylent after that, and my bowels went back to normal. But the damage was done (indeed I had to bin some of my trousers as the damage seemed embedded in them).
So I say, joylent, okay, but only if you work from home and don't cohabit.
Too bad about the problems you had with your colon. But guts are complex systems, and it sounds like yours was not prepared for the stuff in those shakes.
Fortunately I've not experienced what you experienced... and I'm on my 40th bag or so (3 shakes per bag).
A lunch meal at a restaurant with friends/coworkers is just so much more civilized - and satisfying - than eating some melee out of a plastic container.
And the Mediterranean countries are just masters in this area (thank you Spain/France/Italy!)
Fine, I prefer something not perfectly balanced and enjoying it than some prefectly balanced with micronutrients measured to the microgram and being just a shake.
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I'm pretty sure that Jimmy Joy (Joylent) is still better-balanced food than what you prepare in a house or buy in a restaurant.
I'm pretty sure joylent lost me a job once. I was there consulting but they were making good noises about an extension.
Then I tried a week on joylent. I emitted smells I have only previously come across in a hospital. The putrid reak of a gut in very great distress.
It goes away in a few days, said the internet. So I kept faith and held on for a week, then a second.
One morning I came in to find my desk had been moved to the break area. 'we noticed that your are ill so we thought it was better all round if you weren't here with the team'
I dropped joylent after that, and my bowels went back to normal. But the damage was done (indeed I had to bin some of my trousers as the damage seemed embedded in them).
So I say, joylent, okay, but only if you work from home and don't cohabit.
Too bad about the problems you had with your colon. But guts are complex systems, and it sounds like yours was not prepared for the stuff in those shakes.
Fortunately I've not experienced what you experienced... and I'm on my 40th bag or so (3 shakes per bag).
A lunch meal at a restaurant with friends/coworkers is just so much more civilized - and satisfying - than eating some melee out of a plastic container.
And the Mediterranean countries are just masters in this area (thank you Spain/France/Italy!)
I don't think anyone suggested that it's an either-or proposition.
When you need something fast, or you need something fast AND you want a good amount of protein, these shakes are great.
I'd certainly rather have a nice several course meal with friends; but if I have little time, these shakes are a great solution.
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Fine, I prefer something not perfectly balanced and enjoying it than some prefectly balanced with micronutrients measured to the microgram and being just a shake.
Mediterranian diet has no bad problems
But to each their own