It's not marketed that way, but Soylent seems kind of similar in the bland-but-supposedly-healthy drink niche?
Soylent isn't really aimed at health, more convenience & novelty. Its not unhealthy either, but you get my point
The rise of alternative milks
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#12I do care about nutrition, currently anything but soy milk is just water. Still environmentally friendly. Almond Milk has a couple of almonds in the bottle.
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#13We just had this one too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19025957
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#14I put away about three gallons of milk a week. I just drink a lot of it (and obviously lactose intolerance isn't a problem). I can't ever stomach these. My wife, on the other hand, budgets her lactose intake, prefers lactose-free milk (which I find unpleasantly sweet), and will readily drink almond and soy milks which I can't stand. But I'm firmly ready to believe that I'm the dinosaur here.
You can stand just about anything, just have to give it a chance. I’m reminded of a decade or two back when I switched to diet drinks, though I preferred the sugared. Now sugar soda tastes horrible. In the 80s we moved to low-fat milk, shortly after whole tasted horrible. How did I ever drink this? Take a month off then try a unsweetened coconut/almond blend, get over the hump, wait two months. You’ll be surprised at…
You do get used to it, but it is also a different experience. Most plant based milks won't be fresh (both in taste and literally) or neutral in taste. If I drink soy milk for awhile I can appreciate it, but I still wouldn't drink it as a standalone beverage. On the other hand I don't really have a need to drink milk as a beverage either.
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#15It's not marketed that way, but Soylent seems kind of similar in the bland-but-supposedly-healthy drink niche?
Soylent isn't really aimed at health, more convenience & novelty. Its not unhealthy either, but you get my point
I’d suggest it is unhealthy. We don’t even know what all is in the food we eat, so to pretend we can combine a bunch of synthetic stuff into some well rounded meal for daily consumption I believe is dangerous.
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#16I know a few vegans who introduced me to soy milk years ago. Now I think it has a fishy after taste and I can't stand it anymore. 2-3 years ago many grocery stores added other milk alternatives. While I think almond milk is the best, oat milk is the second place but much cheaper. Generally, milk is heavily subsidized in Germany and alternatives are 2-4 times more expensive, so I don't know if this a little hype or th…
The texture of oat milk is offputting for me. So thick
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#17I know a few vegans who introduced me to soy milk years ago. Now I think it has a fishy after taste and I can't stand it anymore. 2-3 years ago many grocery stores added other milk alternatives. While I think almond milk is the best, oat milk is the second place but much cheaper. Generally, milk is heavily subsidized in Germany and alternatives are 2-4 times more expensive, so I don't know if this a little hype or th…
Interesting; have you tried different soy milks? Some use seaweed extract which might give such an aftertaste (though I've never noticed).
Milk is subsidised in many markets, either directly or indirectly; but the demand side makes a big difference too. Also, things are often priced to what people will pay...
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#18I know a few vegans who introduced me to soy milk years ago. Now I think it has a fishy after taste and I can't stand it anymore. 2-3 years ago many grocery stores added other milk alternatives. While I think almond milk is the best, oat milk is the second place but much cheaper. Generally, milk is heavily subsidized in Germany and alternatives are 2-4 times more expensive, so I don't know if this a little hype or th…
The texture of oat milk is offputting for me. So thick
Really? To me, it was the main selling point.
I also like rice-soy milk, it doesn't have the strange after tastes of soy milk, but it's just so thin, hehe.
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#19I know a few vegans who introduced me to soy milk years ago. Now I think it has a fishy after taste and I can't stand it anymore. 2-3 years ago many grocery stores added other milk alternatives. While I think almond milk is the best, oat milk is the second place but much cheaper. Generally, milk is heavily subsidized in Germany and alternatives are 2-4 times more expensive, so I don't know if this a little hype or th…
Interesting; have you tried different soy milks? Some use seaweed extract which might give such an aftertaste (though I've never noticed). Milk is subsidised in many markets, either directly or indirectly; but the demand side makes a big difference too. Also, things are often priced to what people will pay...
Yes, I tried a few.
It was like a negative aha-moment, a taste that was always there but I never noticed it, when it finally clicked, and I found out it was a fishy taste soy milk pretty much died for me.
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#20Also known as "the rise of non-milks, usually colored artificially white to lure people to believe they're like the real thing".
I've made cashew milk and oat milk at home and they're naturally colored as they are on store shelves. Also, you can look at the ingredients list to verify that they are not colored. I don't recall the last time I saw or purchased one that was artificially colored. EDIT: Removed the first sentence as recommended.
Please don't tell people they're lying on HN when you have no idea whether that's true. (Apologies if you know the person you responded to well enough to know they're lying - I'm assuming you don't.)
edit: Ah, I should have quoted, lesson learned. The comment began "Please don't lie", which has been removed, and people are downvoting me and responding as if I'd read the edited comment, so mine appears nonsensical.