Dilbert creator Scott Adams…. colossal failure.
Got it.
You just listened to that Behind the Bastards episode too eh?
Trying to create a cheap microwave burrito that’s also healthy and filling seems like a pretty noble (if difficult) goal to me. Making it vegetarian also decreases its ecological impact (though I don’t know whether or not Adams cared about that).
Trying to fortify each burrito with 100% of your daily vitamins was a really stupid idea though. It was unnecessary (just take a multivitamin if you feel like you need it), it made the burrito taste worse (Adams described it as “chalky”), and it was potentially unhealthy if someone were to eat multiple burritos per day (and thus receive multiple times the recommended daily dose of… everything).
Adams himself noted, “[t]he mineral fortification was hard to disguise, and because of the veggie and legume content, three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail.”
Poetry.
Adams himself noted, “The mineral fortification was hard to disguise, and because of the veggie and legume content, three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail.” The New York Times noted the burrito “could have been designed only by a food technologist or by someone who eats lunch without much thought to taste.”
Well sign me right the fuck up, this seems like true miracle chow
“could have been designed only by a food technologist or by someone who eats lunch without much thought to taste.”
And years later, Soylent was created by the same type of person.
I legitimately enjoyed having an almost tasteless, yet filling, meal that I could consume while working, but like all good things it was ruined when capitalists bought it and replaced the sugar with some artificial shit.
I miss Soylent as well. I think the peak was the bottled version right before they switched to the “sqround” bottles.