Stem Cell Burgers

[Bar Sinister]

I'd starve first. Yuck!

Better stop eating then. It is estimated that most Canadians eat an a half kilo or so of insects per year in the form of tiny mites on fruits and vegetables as well as and their eggs. Still more insects and eggs are found in processed food.

So far as the article is concerned the great science fiction author Frederick Pohl wrote about artificially grown foods in the 1950s. If I remember correctly the book was called the Space Merchants. One striking scene I remember from the book is visiting a factory in which a giant chicken heart (some ten meters or so across) is constantly harvested even as nutrients are added to keep it beating. Humourously, the heart was nicknamed "Chicken Little" by the people who harvested and tended it.

 

[SLM]

Better stop eating then. It is estimated that most Canadians eat an a half kilo or so of insects per year in the form of tiny mites on fruits and vegetables as well as and their eggs. Still more insects and eggs are found in processed food.

You know, I could have died happy not knowing that.

So far as the article is concerned the great science fiction author Frederick Pohl wrote about artificially grown foods in the 1950s. If I remember correctly the book was called the Space Merchants. One striking scene I remember from the book is visiting a factory in which a giant chicken heart (some ten meters or so across) is constantly harvested even as nutrients are added to keep it beating. Humourously, the heart was nicknamed "Chicken Little" by the people who harvested and tended it.

I don't eat much processed food, so to me just the idea of 'synthetic' is unpalatable to say the least.

 

[petros]

Anything?8O

I think I'd be able to eat certain bugs, but certainly not cockroaches!8O

Just don't look.

 

[shadowshiv]

Just don't look.

I guess they might be okay if they were covered in chocolate.

 

[petros]

How well do oxo and chocolate go together?

 

[SLM]

OXO and chocolate? Ewwww.

I have to eat breakfast in eight hours!

Maybe I'll just skip it.

 

[shadowshiv]

How well do oxo and chocolate go together?

No, I was talking about cockroaches. I said that I wouldn't want to eat cockroaches(if it got to the point where we had to eat insects), but I guess I'd be willing to try chocolate-covered cockroaches.:lol:

OXO cubes. Blech! I'd rather eat a cockroach!

OXO and chocolate? Ewwww.

I have to eat breakfast in eight hours!

Maybe I'll just skip it.

There are many things made of chocolate that are quite tasty.

Chocolate OXO cubes are not one of those items.:lol:

 

[petros]

Roaches kinda smell like butterscotch. I wonder if they taste like butterscotch?

 

[shadowshiv]

Roaches kinda smell like butterscotch. I wonder if they taste like butterscotch?

You know, cockroaches probably wouldn't taste as bad as I think they do, but with all the negative things you hear about them, it just reinforces their "yuck" factor.

 

[petros]

Start with crickets and grasshoppers then work your way up to roaches.

 

[shadowshiv]

Start with crickets and grasshoppers then work your way up to roaches.

I've actually heard people say that crickets and grasshoppers are actually quite tasty, especially when they are fried or dipped in various things(sauces, chocolate, etc.)

 

[55Mercury]

Roaches kinda smell like butterscotch. I wonder if they taste like butterscotch?

They might not be so bad...

as long as you don't cough up the exoskeleton afterward.

just sayin

I wonder if you can farm them. I mean, besides under your fridge.

:?)

 

[taxslave]

OXO and chocolate? Ewwww.

I have to eat breakfast in eight hours!

Maybe I'll just skip it.

I'm rading this during breakfast. Oh well the dog always has room for more.

 

[Machjo]

As if mystery-meat in processed, meat-style foods wasn't enough to turn my stomach... This seals the deal

Trust me. If this stuff was sold at the market, most customers would not even notice the difference.

Actually this would probably not affect health-conscious vegetarians, but could cause confusion among compassionate vegetarians since no animal would actually have to be killed over this.

 

[earth_as_one]

I tried silkworms in Shanghai. They have a street market there where they sell all kinds of crazy stuff, including insects. I thought they were tasty. I tried some other insects too, but I can't recall what they were. Some were good, others not so good. They tasted similar, but it was the amount of "meat" to shell ratio. BTW, you don't swallow the exoskeleton, at least on the insects I tried. Insect shells can be sharp and pointy.

BTW, when I lived in Canada's arctic, I tried muktuk, raw caribou, musk ox, ptarmigan and hare. Raw caribou was delicious. If you like your steaks rare, then I definitely recommend properly prepared frozen raw caribou.

 

[L Gilbert]

Actually, on second thought, if the test-tube meat was devoid of preservatives and other such undesirables, I'd try it. I doubt I'd make it a staple, though. I like elk, moose, etc. too much.

 

[Machjo]

Actually, on second thought, if the test-tube meat was devoid of preservatives and other such undesirables, I'd try it. I doubt I'd make it a staple, though. I like elk, moose, etc. too much.

Why not test-tube elk, moose, etc.?

 

[L Gilbert]

Why not test-tube elk, moose, etc.?

Elk and moose won't fit.

 

[shadowshiv]

I wonder if you can farm them. I mean, besides under your fridge.

:?)

Just ask the people that are showcased on the show 'Hoarders: Buried Alive'.8O

In all seriousness, it's hard to believe how far down some of those people get.

 

[spaminator]

i'm sure that the artificial burgers will taste great with the artificial condiments.