> Do you care about performance, or do you just want to just fart out a bunch of noise?

WTF are you talking about? MREs will give you your daily nutrition, can be cheaper than actual meals, and definitely wins points against meals, but I don't see puritannical arguments about "Why do you need a real carrot anyway? Taste is overrated" everywhere.

> I get traditional car culture, but electrics embody the "money talks, wealth whispers" truism.

Sorry, wrong. It's basically lack of taste.

You make this comment as if this exact argument didn't happen 6 times in the past decade when talking about Huel and Soylent