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I’m assuming a giant bowl of pasta and cheese is incredibly unhealthy, even with some brocolli sprinkled on top.

Do you have any moral concerns with this company? We’re a massively obese nation...

Yeah honestly it sounds pretty gross. But I’m sure there are a lot of people out there that want to eat very un healthy food. I mean, look how many McDonald’s there are in the world. Personally I would never start a company whose sole mission is to feed people things that are definitely bad for them, and I’m surprised that this is the product they chose to launch with when there are SO many easy and cheap ways to get unhealthy food already. Uber eats will deliver me McDonald’s for free in under 20 mins, plus Taco Bell, jack in the box etc etc. It seems like a huge opportunity to bring that kind of convenience and cost effectiveness to healthy food. Almost everything healthy near me is 2-5x more expensive. But if someone could figure out how to make delicious healthy food at scale and deliver it to me, wow. I would be so stoked. So I hope these founders will consider thinking about more than a bottom line as they scale up. The world doesn’t need more Mac n cheese.

Does YC have any moral guidelines for the companies they fund? I was assuming there’d at least be a hand-waving “make the world a better place” or something, but I’m not seeing anything on their principles page: http://www.ycombinator.com/principles/

Would YC fund a cocaine delivery company if it was legal and profitable? A news site that fuels revenue by spreading hate? Military recruiters in poor neighborhoods as a service?

There's a quote attributed to Redd Foxx that I read years ago in, of all places, a bodybuilding magazine I subscribed to. "One of these days, all those healthy people are going to end up dying of nothing."

How about we just let people make their own informed choices? I love mac & cheese and would happily use this service if I were in their target area. I also made my family sauteed broccoli and rice for dinner last night. Although you might complain about the freshly baked peach pie and vanilla ice cream I made for dessert!

Not everything needs to be a hand-wringing concern about the future of civilization; sometimes we just need to enjoy ourselves.

This is a fair point when there are limited options available (price, availability, location, convenience). In Portland, there are tons of options that are healthier and cheaper.

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