Protein Ate Our Grocery Stores

O-K · 2026-08-18T22:47:35

There are only four sources of calories: protein, fat, carbohydrate, and alcohol. Fat is out. Carbohydrate is out. And you can’t tell people to eat more alcohol.

Hold my beer...

ErroneousBosh · 2026-08-18T19:47:41

I've never really understood the obsession with heavily processed "glop" like Huel and stuff, which all has "with Protein!" stuck on it.

Why not just eat food?

BugsJustFindMe · 2026-08-18T21:40:06

> "Why not just eat food?"

Why not just do [less convenient thing] instead of [more convenient thing]? Well, convenience, of course.

> "I've never really understood"

You only need to understand that different people can have different priorities and desires.

> "the obsession ... glop ... stuck on ... why not just"

All you're doing here is using negative framing to pretend that your own priorities are more real than someone else's.

ErroneousBosh · 2026-08-19T07:43:31

> You only need to understand that different people can have different priorities and desires.

Evolutionarily, food is our absolute number one priority. It's hardcoded into the thought processes of every animal.

Can you describe anything that is more important than food?

BugsJustFindMe · 2026-08-19T14:02:41

The "glop", as you put it, is also food. It has the same nutritive components and addresses the same hunger signals and fuels the body's same energy-production requirements. You just don't like it.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_projection

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemophobia

ErroneousBosh · 2026-08-20T12:16:48

It's expensive, it's not pleasant to eat, and it's not good for you.

Why are you wasting time with it?

BugsJustFindMe · 2026-08-20T14:46:58

> "It's expensive"

You don't like it.

> "it's not pleasant to eat"

You don't like it.

> "and it's not good for you."

You don't like it.

> "wasting time"

You don't like it.

Possibly also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa

None of your complaints make it not food. They just mean you don't know how to differentiate between your personal subjective preferences and correctness and it makes you sound snooty.

dofm · 2026-08-21T17:46:19

> Possibly also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa

That is a bit of a reach! Anyone who doesn't like your weird sci-fi food on principle possibly has an eating disorder?

Apocryphon · 2026-08-20T19:23:58

Presumably those who eat it find the form factor the opposite of wasting time, given how quick it is to consume it.

dtdynasty · 2026-08-18T21:08:34

It's just convenient to mix in shaker bottle and have food sometimes. I feel like for people who eat to live [1] it's clearly saves time.

[1] as opposed to live to eat

Apocryphon · 2026-08-18T23:56:30

Presumably for some who are under specific exercise or diet regimens, it makes tracking macros more easy.

rudy6912 · 2026-08-18T23:57:46

> I've never really understood the obsession with heavily processed "glop" like Huel and stuff [...]

I've never really understood the obsession with one particular kind of food being "the true food".

> Why not just eat food?

Wait, what? Huel is food, by definition.

ErroneousBosh · 2026-08-19T07:22:38

Well, if you consider intensely sugary pea soup to be food, yes.

BugsJustFindMe · 2026-08-19T14:18:28

Literally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

> "intensely sugary"

Sugary foods exist.

> "pea soup"

Pea soup also exists.

And if someone wants to put sugar into their pea soup, that can also exist. You complain about obsessions, but it seems like you may have an obsession about what other people should want.