The buns are also the wrong color, what on Earth is happening

Mary Worth, 12/17/23

Many years ago, something or some collection of things I said on this site convinced some readers that I was a vegetarian, which anyone who knows me in real life would find very, very funny, given that my diet is mostly predicated on the fact that vegetables are, in my scientific opinion, "yucky." That said, my wife's a vegetarian and I generally find cooking with meat kind of a pain anyway, so I do often make use of various meat substitutes, and honestly they're fine? Like the Morningstar Farms fake fried chicken patties and nuggets aren't "chicken" per se but are serviceably salty protein delivery mechanisms; and fake beef technology has really improved over the years, with stuff like Beyond and Impossible ground "beef" being ... well, distinguishable from the real thing, probably, but also greasy (in a good way) and pretty tasty. They certainly wouldn't result in even the most hardened carnivore reacting in the kind of disgust Keith is displaying here, unless you've talked yourself into hating it in advance.

That said, nothing in those types of burgers could be described as "Soylent," which is actually the brand name of a vile nutritive slurry invented by a tech guy who hated food and almost certainly had some kind of eating disorder, and which was supposed to substitute for eating altogether. I don't want to say that this is the first indication that Mary Worth may not have a good handle on what left-wing radicals are actually like, but I will say that Soylent, while technically vegan, had more appeal to people in libertarian tech spaces who wanted to spend all day coding for their startup without pausing to cook or even chew, rather than people who actually strongly identify as vegan. Anyway, Soylent's heyday seems to have passed, and one of the things it was most famous for was wreaking havoc on your digestive system, so if that really is a Soylent burger, Keith has that to look forward to, I guess.