Yeah the creator said the name was specifically meant to pique curiosity and I'd say OP fell for it

Yes that is where the name stems from.

Been waiting a while for this lol

It was soy and lentil in the book.

The movie based on the book made it people.

I came here for this!

As I recall, the joke was getting old in the late 90s on slashdot

It's the long pig that makes it tasty.

It's the Vanilla for me. Silky smoooooth people bits!

Delicious, delicious people.

There was a movie in the 1970s about a dystopian future where there was not enough food to go around. The main food company was named Soilent.

So it was coming out with a new product that would end hunger. It was made out of algae, and it was called Soilent Green.

Charleston Heston was the hero of the movie and he broke into the factory and figured out that it was actually made from dead people.

My brother managed to drink only it for a while and it gave him crazy bad poops initially but it balanced out. He's just the soulless kind of guy it's meant for, he didn't miss the taste of real food in the slightest.

He's kicked it, though, probably because it really isn't great long term as the only thing you eat.

I used to live on those when they cost a little over $1 per bottle. The price inflation now is outrageous. Anyway I stopped drinking Soylent mid-2021 soon after they switched their sweetener to allulose. My body did not like allulose. I drink Jimmy Joy Plenny Shake now, and eat MealSquares.