Mmmmmm... People...
We’ve been watching Futurama episodes while I’ve been healing myself over the last few days, and we’ve just made it to the Slurm! episode. Strangely, revolting though the concept is, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it really wouldn’t bother me that much, knowing that a soft drink was produced by being squirted out of the hind end of a giant slug. After all, thanks to jeremy™!, I have some Kopi Luwak, which is coffee produced by being shat out of the hind end of some exotic cat.
Soylent Green, on the other hand, is something I would have an issue with. I’m not sure I could eat that, knowing that it comes from people. It’s not through any ethical or moral objections… I just don’t like old people. Or Brussels sprouts.
Then again, when you think about it, everything they eat in Star Trek is created through re-processing all their waste products. So essentially, that steak they’re enjoying is made from recycled poo!
What about you? Where in the Sci-Fi realm would you draw the line? What line is too far for you to cross before you wouldn’t consider eating it anymore?
Brussel Sprouts are delicious!
I enjoy them cooked in a nice pot roast gravy but delicious is a bit of a stretch for me.
Milk and eggs are pretty revolting if you think about it, but I have some of one or the other almost daily.
i do think about it, that is why i avoid both. especially eggs (shudder).
After I wrote that I thought about how revolting cheese is, but I eat that a lot too, even moldy cheese, go figure.
My fiancee's talked about synthetic meat – essentially, sheets of meat grown in a lab. I sort of want to try that.
Also, I'm intrigued by blue milk.
just add food coloring to any food and "enjoy"!
Anyone up for purple rice?
There was a great short book written "Space Merchants" where they did something like that, except sliced thin sheets off of "Chicken Little."
True or untrue, this is one line I will not cross.
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An official-looking scientist in an official-looking lab is proposing meat made from poo, and pointing at his board with a fake hand on a stick, complete with painted fingernail.
Welcome to Japan.
Having lived there for many years, none of this actually surprises me.
But I still won't eat poo.
Maybe not, but I'm in favor of any process that contains the step "…we add reaction enhancer and put it in the exploder…."
I really hope that's not a translation or transcription error, although I fear he actually said "extruder."
Yes, an exploder would likely improve the process, especially with a 'reaction enhancer'. Plus, it sounds way cooler.
Japanese technobabble, ya gotta love it.
That's German/Brazilian as much as it is Japanese, or so I'm reliably informed.
Even better technobabble, especially the Germans and their 17 syllable, ten dollar words. I love them, even tough I can't pronounce them.
Jeremy Piven wants to buy a franchise.
Also, "shit burger". TeeHee.
The fact that the protein comes just from the bacteria and is heated to kill them makes me wonder how many amino acids it really has and if the ones that it does contain are denatured to the point of uselessness anyway.
This reminds me of a study my fiancee mentioned to me: most people would not drink water that came from a waste water treatment plant even though its bacterial content is lower than that of water coming from a river. However, if the water was piped to a river and then pumped out of the same river miles down stream, then it was OK to drink!
Fishes have to poo somewhere…
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apparently those people in the study do not live near the Detroit River. you learn pretty early not to drink the water, or eat fish caught in the water, etc.
I'll eat any SciFi food, so long as I can wash it down with a nice glass of tranya. I hope you relish it as much as I.
+1 for The Corbomite Maneuver reference.
I'm sorry- when I first glanced at it, I thought it said
the Catamite Maneuver!
Might explain some of the storyline……
It came from Alff, so you were probably right the first time…(><)
I show it coming from Craigsu- be nice now, hear? (giggle)
Both Alff & I have owned/worked on/suffered with Alpo
Romeo's(ha! an unintended food pun!), so we stick
together, since we are Hoonitarians as well as Toasters.
All in good fun.
Gah, I swear that I'm blind today, I've been screwing up all over the place. More than usual, even.
I can't resist taking shots at the Kelvinator, he makes it so easy.
After that pun, maybe I should keep an eye on you, too…..
Now, now. I like to be in my cups but that's as close to a catamite as I'll ever get.
In all seriousness, nothing gets my blood boiling as much as mistreatment of youth.
I agree completely. Sorry if I took it too far. Sigh, I've just been blowing it all day long.
YOU apologizing to ME for taking it too far?! That's rich.
Come on, Alff- let's git 'im! ;-p
Well, I would probably draw the line at Gagh, although I have always wondered if there was enough meat under Tribble fur to warrant deep-frying them.
Oh no- leave the fur on. That's what keeps the milk/flour
mixture from falling off.
Ever had BBQ Gorn? Now that's tasty!
Funny, we just had this conversation on the weekend: Basically everything you have ever eaten was at one point poop. Would I take a bite off a fresh log? No, but I'll happily eat tomatoes from my garden that grow in a combination of poo, pee, and older poo and pee.
You got it. Everything turns to dust eventually.
It's all just reprocessed stellar matter anyway, so what's the big deal? If the waste organics are properly sterilized and processed, it's all the same.
But I always thought you particularly enjoyed the speech center of the brain, pass the blowhole will you?
I draw the line at the thickening agent used in fast food milkshakes, it is made from wood pulp. Fun fact: the same stuff is used as the absorbent material in diapers.
Um. Ew. That's a little too close to home. Yucky.
How about beer? Did you know that fish guts are used to make some beers? European beers, in fact.
i recently learned about this, after visiting a bar that lists which beers are vegan. basically, none. i don't eat fish, so now i drink to forget what i'm drinking.
mmm…European beer.
upon further research, i found out that many of the beers i like are vegan. thanks Reinheitsgebot!
Bass ale is one of my favorites.
What about Kingfisher? I like their calendars at least. http://provence.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/ki…