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Sushi Prepared on a Printer

Ant writes " The New York Times talks about Homaro Cantu's maki, it looks a lot like the sushi rolls served at other upscale restaurants: pristine, coin-size disks stuffed with lumps of fresh crab and rice and wrapped in shiny nori. They also taste like sushi, deliciously fishy and seaweedy. But the sushi made by Mr. Cantu, the 28-year-old executive chef at Moto in Chicago, often contains no fish. It is prepared on a Canon i560 inkjet printer rather than a cutting board. He prints images of maki on pieces of edible paper made of soybeans and cornstarch, using organic, food-based inks of his own concoction. Then, Homaro flavors the back of the paper, which is ordinarily used to put images onto birthday cakes, with powdered soy and seaweed seasonings."

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  1. Mmm by ikkonoishi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Try the soylent green. Its delicious.

    1. Re:Mmm by Eric+Giguere · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh, I dunno, you might be able to grill a steak on this printer.

      Eric
  2. But where? by Fr05t · · Score: 4, Funny

    But where is the eatable electronic ink paper! Ohh I need to go print a TPS report then feed it to my boss - bbl.

  3. I tried this at home by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It tastes like toner.

  4. Thanks by Troll'N · · Score: 5, Funny

    Domo Arigato Mr.Homaro

  5. hehe by essreenim · · Score: 3, Funny
    prints images of maki on pieces of edible paper made of soybeans and cornstarch, using organic, food-based inks of his own concoction.

    Yeah, all obes people should be forced to eat their words!

  6. Is this low carb? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does he also print the nutritional information on the back as well?

  7. Tesco Sushi by Vollernurd · · Score: 3, Funny

    Holy crap! I knew that they made it out of old paper. Tesco (UK's WalMart) make everything taste of paper. Now I know.

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  8. 3rd world by JFMulder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great, so now we can actually fax them food.

  9. Paging Mr. Tuttle ... er ...Buttle by DrTrogg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's see - vast drone-like armies of workers ... corporate marauders ... increased terrorism ... now pictures of food instead of food. If DeNiro shows up to fix my toilet I'm moving to Canada.

    Anyone sharing a desk with their neighbor in the next cube yet?

  10. Good thing it wasn't an HP printer by defishguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it were an HP printer when the seaweed part of the cartridge expired youd have to replace the WHOLE cartridge and it would cost $5000 dollars, and expire when there is still 15% sushi left!

  11. Yeah, go on, applaud the criminal by Wylfing · · Score: 4, Funny
    This guy should so obviously go to jail. I mean, you can't tell me those printer cartidges are authorized by the printer's manufacturer. This kind of wanton breaking of the DMCA has to stop if we want companies to continue making the high quality printers we've come to expect. Now someone's family at Lexmark is going to go hungry because Mr. Cantu stole their IP.

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  12. Re:Pr0n by liquidsin · · Score: 4, Funny

    good news: You could actually print a picture of Natalie Portman that tastes like hot grits.

    bad news: someone could slip a pic of the goatse guy into your sandwich when you're not looking.

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  13. $240 per person to eat PAPER?!?! by TrebleJunkie · · Score: 5, Funny

    And we wonder why people crash planes into our buildings.

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    You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.

  14. Interesting by millwall · · Score: 3, Funny

    "We'll be the first restaurant on planet Earth to use a class IV laser to cook food"

    Anyone got a link to the planet that already does this?

  15. Re:Sushi Fishy. by Johnny5000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are posting on /. hence you can't have a girlfriend let alone a hot asian one.

    I think by 'hot japanese girlfriend' he meant his computer. Maybe it's overclocked?

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  16. It's Paper! by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Soylent Sushi is PAPER!

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  17. The fine art of sushi takes another hit by genner · · Score: 5, Funny

    When willl they learn that sushi is a art form, not to be duplicated by a machiene.