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Rubber from Mushrooms
Abhishek writes "The Hindustan Times reports that researchers at Gunma University, west of Tokyo, have produced rubber from the chichitake mushroom and the end-product has the advantage of not containing a protein that can cause allergies, according to Hiroshi Mitomo, head of the research team at the university's biological and chemical engineering department. The only obstacle is the high production costs which the scientists wish to conquer pretty soon."
The condom flavour for gourmets!
..when someone glosses over the fact that shit is, well, shit.
From your link: "This doesn't hurt the spores, which are deposited in a nice, nutrient rich, wet and warm package to start reproducing again."
Sounds appetizing.:-P
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Mmm, fried vulcanized mushrooms. Not much different from calamari I would imagine.
I'm tasting the pencil eraser made from these shrooms right now, and it does taste pretty good. Hey wait, this isn't a pencil at all, it's a giant kangaroo...
There are 2 kinds of people in this world. Those that can keep their train of thought,
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