Could chemicals replace food?

[W9JEF]

In December of 2012, three young men were living in a claustrophobic apartment
in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, working on a technology startup. They had
received a hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the incubator Y Combinator,
but their project—a plan to make inexpensive cell-phone towers—had failed.
Down to their last seventy thousand dollars, they resolved to keep trying out
new software ideas until they ran out of money. But how to make the funds last?
Rent was a sunk cost. Since they were working frantically, they already had no social life.


As they examined their budget, one big problem remained: food.
They had been living mostly on ramen, corn dogs, and Costco frozen quesadillas
—supplemented by Vitamin C tablets, to stave off scurvy—but the grocery bills
were still adding up. Rob Rhinehart, one of the entrepreneurs, began to resent
the fact that he had to eat at all. “Food was such a large burden,” he told me recently.
“It was also the time and the hassle. We had a very small kitchen, and no dishwasher.”
He tried out his own version of “Super Size Me,” living on McDonald’s dollar meals
and five-dollar pizzas from Little Caesars. But after a week, he said, “I felt like I was
going to die.” Kale was all the rage—and cheap—so next he tried an all-kale diet.
But that didn’t work, either. “I was starving,” he said.


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[koØm]

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[KC2UGV]

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[KG4CGC]

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[N2NH]

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[XE1/N5AL]

Chemicals for food may be fine, but stay away from the meth!

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[kb2vxa]

"Food" is said to be saturated with chemicals, but the truth is chemicals have become food. They'll never admit what you eat is grown in a test tube, the formula for the Big Mac is a trade secret. And you're worried about "genetically modified corn"? Wake up little Suzie, wake up. Wake up little Suzy, wake up and smell the popcorn (with butter flavored popcorn oil and Flavacol), we gotta go home.

Oh, I almost forgot to warn the railfans contemplating meth!

[W9JEF]

"Food" is said to be saturated with chemicals, but the truth is chemicals have become food. They'll never admit what you eat is grown in a test tube, the formula for the Big Mac is a trade secret. And you're worried about "genetically modified corn"? Wake up little Suzie, wake up. Wake up little Suzy, wake up and smell the popcorn (with butter flavored popcorn oil and Flavacol), we gotta go home.

Oh, I almost forgot to warn the railfans contemplating meth!

"Food" is not to be confused with the effluent they serve
at those "fast food" dealerships or movie theaters. :sick:

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[NY4Q]

Hmm. This thread made my mind wander back too....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1EcrD5IyxM

[KG4CGC]

Faire la bise. The double kiss on both cheeks. I miss this more than anything, because in the year that I spent in France, I kissed more beautiful women this way than I ever did before or since. You kiss everyone you meet, and if you kiss someone as if leaving but then still hang out at the party, it's very rude. These days the double kiss is mostly done woman-to-woman or woman-to-man, but older generations also practice it man-to-man, with no sexual meaning at all.http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2014/05/06/french_customs_what_habits_might_seem_strange_to_f oreigners.html

[XE1/N5AL]

Down here, a single kiss on the cheek: woman-to-woman, or man-to-woman, is standard operating procedure. You get to do it once at the greeting, and once at the parting. Kissing a beautiful hottie is great, but then you also have to kiss her 300 year-old grandmother, who is standing next to her. That tends to neutralize the experience.

[K7SGJ]

Down here, a single kiss on the cheek: woman-to-woman, or man-to-woman, is standard operating procedure. You get to do it once at the greeting, and once at the parting. Kissing a beautiful hottie is great, but then you also have to kiss her 300 year-old grandmother, who is standing next to her. That tends to neutralize the experience.

OH, that's how that's supposed to work, a SINGLE kiss to the cheek. No wonder everyone got so pissed when I tried to play tonsil hockey with a Guadalajara hottie.

[W9JEF]

Hmm. This thread made my mind wander back too....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1EcrD5IyxM

Ah, the pungent aroma of tuna... I'm salivating. ;)

[KG4CGC]

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[N7YA]

Down here, a single kiss on the cheek: woman-to-woman, or man-to-woman, is standard operating procedure. You get to do it once at the greeting, and once at the parting. Kissing a beautiful hottie is great, but then you also have to kiss her 300 year-old grandmother, who is standing next to her. That tends to neutralize the experience.


I dunno. Grandma gives the best public handjob ever!! Must be that 300 years of experience.

[KG4CGC]

I dunno. Grandma gives the best public handjob ever!! Must be that 300 years of experience.

Those old wrinkly hands resemble crinkly bits.

[kb2vxa]

The old grey mare just ain't what she used to be, but grandma still hauls wood.

[NM5TF]

geeeeez....and here I always thot that ALL food is chemicals anyway...as are we....or as CArl Sagan used to say "we
are star stuff, made from chemicals ejected from the hearts of stars" or sumpin' like that...

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[K7SGJ]

I dunno. Grandma gives the best public handjob ever!! Must be that 300 years of experience.

And Grandma didn't wrestle, but you ought to see her box.

[AC8KF WALT]

"tang", i'm just saying.