soylent en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsɔɪlənt/
Etymology
Blend of soy + lentil, coined in Harry Harrison's 1966 Make Room! Make Room!
Meanings
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(uncountable) An undesirable, lackluster, and artificial foodstuff, as a substitute for real meat.
It is decided that the product will be composed of three elements — soylent green, red, and blue. Each pound of the final product must contain at least 2000 calories of energy and 1000 units of vitamins.
1976, Roger C. Pfaffenberger, Mathematical Programming for Economics and Business, Ames: Iowa State University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN:“Today's selection is Superaide with a choice of soylent yellow or soylent red,” the servodroid said.
2008, Shane Berryhill, Chance Fortune and the Outlaws, New York: Starscape, published 2011, chapter 8:The soylent steaks were sitting like lead in his stomach and twice he had to go back to the dark and miserable toilet in the rear of the building.
1966, Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!, published 1973, →ISBN, →OL, page 26:
Deriveds
soylent blue · soylent green · soylent pink
Relateds
Translations (5)
es comidilla (undesirable artificial foodstuff) · ru сойлент (undesirable artificial foodstuff) · pl jedzenie niewiadomego pochodzenia (undesirable artificial foodstuff) · de Veggiefleisch (undesirable artificial foodstuff) · de Fleischersatz (undesirable artificial foodstuff)