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Robot Identifies Human Flesh As Bacon

Jearil writes "Wired's 'Table of Malcontents' blog links to an article about a wine-tasting robot that thinks humans taste like bacon. The Japanese robot is intended to act as a personal sommelier, suggesting wines, cheeses, and hors d'oeuvres based on its owners personal tastes. It also apparently thinks humans would be tasty as part of a sandwich." From the article: "Let the robot holocaust commence: robots think we taste like bacon ... Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle, amongst other more obscure uses ... like 'tell me what this strange grayish lump at the back of my freezer is/was.' But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot's omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto." This is most distressing.

312 comments

  1. yummy by FudRucker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bacon flavored soylent green

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    1. Re:yummy by nocomment · · Score: 1

      I'm wondering where the samples came from...and if the scientists verified the robots find.

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    2. Re:yummy by bluelip · · Score: 1

      The only acceptable answer was that the reporter was an undercover narc.

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    3. Re:yummy by Buzz_Litebeer · · Score: 1

      If they flavored it like bacon, I could probably overlook that it's people.

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    4. Re:yummy by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 1

      I'm wondering where the samples came from...

      My guess is a graduate student, intern, or other disposable meat bag.

    5. Re:yummy by nzin · · Score: 1

      with some pinch of ferrite or copper to open up the taste.

  2. The robot is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And that's all I'm going to say.

    1. Re:The robot is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why do you think they call human flesh Long Pork?

  3. Soo... by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was he supposed to know what human flesh tastes like? 'Cause once they get the taste, there's no going back!

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  4. Distressing? by onion2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is most distressing.

    No it's not. It's brilliant. The only thing putting me off cannabalism was a concern I might not like the taste. Best news ever!

    1. Re:Distressing? by DrMrLordX · · Score: 4, Informative

      Enjoy the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

    2. Re:Distressing? by Oranse · · Score: 1

      My thoughts exactly. Would the robots have some function that digests (human) flesh? And for what purpose?

      I would expect them to be dependant on solar power until we would scorch the sky.

    3. Re:Distressing? by twistedsymphony · · Score: 1

      That begs the question: Why did the robot overlords in the Matrix farm humans; why not farm pigs? Certainly the matrix would have been a whole lot easier to program if it was just a giant mud pit. They also wouldn't have had to worry about Mr Uno... er Neo.

    4. Re:Distressing? by BigDaddyOttawa · · Score: 1

      You should be concerned, now that I know you taste like bacon.

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    5. Re:Distressing? by T.E.D. · · Score: 1
      Enjoy the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.


      As long as you cook the brains throuroughly before eating them you shouldn't have that problem.

      Bon'appetite
    6. Re:Distressing? by dmatos · · Score: 1

      Unfortunately, prion proteins are not broken down by the heat of cooking. In fact, they can even survive autoclave temperatures. That, along with its potentially long period of dormancy, is what has lead to the restrictions on blood donation.

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  5. I for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I for one welcome our new human-eating robotic overlords

    1. Re:I for one by durnurd · · Score: 1

      Seriously? I, for one, am building a gigantic EMP device right now... just in case.

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    2. Re:I for one by seandiggity · · Score: 1

      How does a Simpsons joke go this long on /. without being applauded? *applause*

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    3. Re:I for one by Sierpinski · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Well, I for one welcome our new human-eating robotic overlords

      Damn you beat me to it, should have known it would have been an early reply. ;-)

      I'll say mine anyway:

      I for one welcome our new manbacon eating robotic overlords.

    4. Re:I for one by PriceIke · · Score: 1

      Bah, I'm not threatened. Did you see what the little robot looks like? Reminds me too much of this guy. I can even hear his little voice: "Haaaay, thees tastes LIKE ... bacon!"

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    5. Re:I for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It was applauded just fine when it appeared on the show.

      It's about 16 years too late for Simpsons quotes to be substitutes for your own jokes. People have seen the show now.

  6. I thought by Scareduck · · Score: 4, Funny

    humans tasted just like chicken. (I haven't summoned the courage to ask my wife what she thinks I taste like.)

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    1. Re:I thought by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      humans tasted just like chicken. (I haven't summoned the courage to ask my wife what she thinks I taste like.)

      The mailman, probably...

      Thank you, I'll be here all this week!

    2. Re:I thought by jagdish · · Score: 1

      Actually chickens taste of human.

    3. Re:I thought by mainfr4me · · Score: 1

      And babies taste of chicken. Glad you're following me on that.
      Thank you Eddie Izzard.

    4. Re:I thought by cerberusss · · Score: 2, Funny
      ask my wife what she thinks I taste like
      What a complicated way of asking for a blowjob.
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    5. Re:I thought by Thansal · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Wife jokes aside.

      The entire "babys taste like chiken" and such are actualy rather off.

      We are RED meat, and thus would taste like beef or pig).

      If anything babies would taste like veal.

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    6. Re:I thought by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So... does this mean it's OK to have sex with pigs? SQUEAAAAAAAAL!!!

    7. Re:I thought by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Thank you, I'll be here all this week!


      TGIF

    8. Re:I thought by beckerist · · Score: 2, Funny

      Alright... THIS was the final post I read before saying "enough." This is way too "Silence of the Lambs" for me...

    9. Re:I thought by SnotBob · · Score: 0

      I haven't summoned the courage to ask my wife what she thinks I taste like.

      UR MOM

    10. Re:I thought by Brandybuck · · Score: 1

      (I haven't summoned the courage to ask my wife what she thinks I taste like.)

      I already know what she tastes like...

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  7. News? by Kangburra · · Score: 1
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  8. One thing is for certain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The robots will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new robotic Atkins diet overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground bacon caves.

  9. Our only hope by MechaShiva · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's just hope these robots are orthodox religious types...

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    1. Re:Our only hope by maxwell+demon · · Score: 1
      Let's just hope these robots are orthodox religious types...
      ... or that they simply hate to eat bacon.
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    2. Re:Our only hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yep, because that made the Cylons into total granola peacenik hippies.

  10. "Tastes like chicken..." by setirw · · Score: 1

    Now that would be a truly distressing designation!

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  11. The robot got it right. by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Ask a Polynesian cannibal why they called it long pig.

    If there are no Polynesian cannibals in your area, ask a soldier or fireman what burning human flesh smells like.

    We smell like pork when we're well-done. The robot got it absolutely right. And I, for one, would like to remind the robot that I'm absolutely delicious when served with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

    1. Re:The robot got it right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Here's a simpler way to experience the aroma:

      1. Go buy a canned ham (the big can).
      2. Place unopened can in cupboard.

      That's it! How do you know when it's ready? Give a few weeks and it will let you know when it's ready ...

    2. Re:The robot got it right. by AtomicBomb · · Score: 1

      At first, I think they are talking about this:
      http://www.araa.asn.au/acra/acra2003/papers/12.pdf

      If that was the case, the reporter would probably become the victim of the man-vs-robot war. btw, I have been to the above conference and been shown the video upon this. The machine is really cool.

  12. Change of recipe by Satorian · · Score: 3, Funny

    Note to self: Change chicken-based recipes.

  13. But Bacon Tastes Good... Pork Chops Taste Good. by fatboy · · Score: 0

    But Bacon Tastes Good... Pork Chops Taste Good.

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    1. Re:But Bacon Tastes Good... Pork Chops Taste Good. by TheUnknownCoder · · Score: 1

      RE:#16789835

      Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know, because I'd never eat the filthy motherfucker.

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    2. Re:But Bacon Tastes Good... Pork Chops Taste Good. by stunt_penguin · · Score: 1

      Yea but a human is a dirty animal!

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  14. Forget the Skynet funding bill ... by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    it looks like the Rise of the Machines will take place in the kitchen.

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    1. Re:Forget the Skynet funding bill ... by FirmWarez · · Score: 1
      in the kitchen
      fracking toasters
  15. Okay.. by vga_init · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This does not surprise me considering that pork is the closest thing to human flesh that we eat.

    I used to theorize that human flesh probably contains more of the same nutrients we need than any other food out there, so I had guessed in the past that in theory it would be pretty tasty.

    1. Re:Okay.. by urikkiru · · Score: 1

      Hrm... I think the fact that you sat around thinking about this is just a whee bit disturbing :)

    2. Re:Okay.. by vga_init · · Score: 1

      True, but it arises from the question, "What does human meat taste like?" After all, we've all heard of cannibalism, and sometimes it makes you wonder such things.

    3. Re:Okay.. by FirmWarez · · Score: 1
      pork is the closest thing to human flesh that we eat
      In other news, Orthodox Rabbis report a huge surge of people interested in converting...
  16. Obligatory Homer quote by Ledsock · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mmmmm..... Bacon....

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  17. One thing is certain... by caitsith01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    One thing is certain, the repetitive jokes will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new "I for one welcome..."-joke-setting-up overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted Slashdotter I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground repetitive-joke-comment caves (as if they need it).

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    1. Re:One thing is certain... by bruins01 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I, for one, welcome our new fun-hating joke-killing overlords.

    2. Re:One thing is certain... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In Soviet Russia, bacon tastes you!

    3. Re:One thing is certain... by cubdawg · · Score: 1

      Nice of you to offer, but I suspect they already have some sort of robot-administered beowulf cluster making up repetetive jokes for them.

      Keep 'em coming.

    4. Re:One thing is certain... by Tekgno · · Score: 1

      In Soviet Russia people eat robots.

  18. That poor man. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Say, they didn't happen to give us that cameraman's name? Where to find him, perhaps? He sounds like the kind of guy I'd love to meat. Er, meet. He sounds like maybe he could use a comforting olive oil bath, and then relax on a bed of mozarella and fresh basil.

    1. Re:That poor man. by DavidHumus · · Score: 2, Funny

      Are you saying you'd like to have him over for dinner?

  19. Slashdot flat today by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is it just me? Did I miss something? They number of replies to posts seems to have dropped off a bit.

  20. Long Pig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Human flesh is known as Long Pig in some cultures that have a history of cannibalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_pig. So it's not just robots who make this connection.

    Where are the Soylent Green Jokes?

    1. Re:Long Pig by epee1221 · · Score: 1

      Ok, ok, here you go.

      Bacon! Soylent Green is made of bacon!

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    2. Re:Long Pig by becklighter · · Score: 2, Funny

      As I once heard... Humans = Eat + Sleep + Play + Work Pigs = Eat + Sleep Substitute and you get: Humans = Pigs + Play + Work Now subtract Play from both sides Humans - Play = Pigs + Work Conclusion: Humans who don't understand how to play are just pigs that know how to work.

    3. Re:Long Pig by somersault · · Score: 1

      Poor formatting (meaning that I didn't get it at all for a minute there):

      As I once heard...
       
      Humans = Eat + Sleep + Play + Work
       
      Pigs = Eat + Sleep
       
      Substitute and you get:
       
      Humans = Pigs + Play + Work
       
      Now subtract Play from both sides
       
      Humans - Play = Pigs + Work
       
      Conclusion: Humans who don't understand how to play are just pigs that know how to work.


      /. requires you to use the HTML 'br' tag to create newlines for some reason.. :p Hmm it doesn't even work when you ask for Plain Old Text formatting..

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    4. Re:Long Pig by becklighter · · Score: 1

      thanks for the catch... Preview showed it fine, looks like they need to fix it.

  21. Fine, because robots dislike bacon. by doug141 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They like alcohol. And gambling.

    1. RE: Fine, because robots dislike bacon. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      They like alcohol. And gambling.

      ... and prostitutes.

      Eh... On second thought, forget the alcohol and gambling.

    2. Re:Fine, because robots dislike bacon. by cybercobra · · Score: 1

      Bender: Forget your stupid theme park! I'm gonna make my own! With hookers! And blackjack! In fact, forget the theme park!

    3. Re:Fine, because robots dislike bacon. by Pharmboy · · Score: 1

      I think you mean hookers and blackjack, plus a few bottles of "Old Fortran", as opposed to the human preference for a six pack of Lowbrau and an anchovy pizza.

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  22. you missed the part right after by circletimessquare · · Score: 1

    when the robot said "I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she was here. Could I see her please?"

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  23. Good wine by dodongo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well at least now we know to pair human flesh with a darker, spicier red like Zinfandel or Shiraz / Syrah.

    Phew.

  24. Mmmm, long pig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You fella like'm kai kai long pig?

  25. Not mentioned... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    In addition to tasting the male cameraman, a female reporter was smelled. The robot described her as having a pungent fish odor.

    1. Re:Not mentioned... by tehcyder · · Score: 5, Funny
      In addition to tasting the male cameraman, a female reporter was smelled. The robot described her as having a pungent fish odor.
      He also smelled an Anonymous Coward, who had the exact scent of sweaty teenage arsehole.
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  26. Accurate by PriyanPhoenix · · Score: 1

    Why is this distressing? That just sounds *accurate*. Err, I mean by all accounts... I still remember my Design Tech teacher sternly warning us all to be careful with soldering irons as they are very hot, which he proceeded to demonstrate by pressing it against his fingers with a hiss, then sniffing and exclaiming, "Smells like bacon!"

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  27. I've never really like bacon by Ignis+Flatus · · Score: 1

    ...and now I know why. :(

    1. Re:I've never really like bacon by Valdrax · · Score: 1

      Because you're a misanthrope?

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  28. BACON!@!!!@!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Robots don't know it's not bacon!

  29. Women already knew this by DaveM753 · · Score: 1

    Guys have sausage, ya know.

  30. Bacon? Obligatory word from Urban Dictionary.... by lukateake · · Score: 1

    wolfbagging -- (NSFW) but you can look it up here.

  31. No pig for me by AsnFkr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is seriously why I don't dine on swine. Back on the farm I grew up on from time to time we'd have to cut up a pig for whatever reason and the way pig's flesh looks when being cut open looks EXACTLY like human flesh being cut, and it's haunted me for years. Pigs are just too close to people in my mind.

    1. Re:No pig for me by R_Growler · · Score: 1

      Right...
      So, back on the farm you grew up on. Was there much cutting of human flesh? Or did you just sorta "freelance" in the human flesh cutting business?

      who'd thunk it. Where I grew up there was much cutting of pig. Never really made the connection with human flesh though. :)

      -RG.

    2. Re:No pig for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Pigs are just too close to people in my mind.

      My ex girlfriend keeps telling me that too, except I think she phrases it the other way around....

    3. Re:No pig for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In my mind, too many people are just too close to pigs.

    4. Re:No pig for me by mcvos · · Score: 1
      Pigs are just too close to people in my mind.

      And some people are pigs. It's just tooo easy to confuse the two.

    5. Re:No pig for me by trongey · · Score: 1
      ... the way pig's flesh looks when being cut open looks EXACTLY like human flesh being cut...

      I was gonna ask how you know that. Then I decided I don't want to know.
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    6. Re:No pig for me by jratcliffe · · Score: 1

      "Pigs are just too close to people in my mind."

      On the farm, some pigs are WAY too close to the people. And not because the pigs want it that way.

  32. obligatory animal farm quote by gsn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

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  33. Then Hannibal was wrong by khendron · · Score: 4, Funny

    He should have chosen a Burgundy, which is a fine match for prosciutto, instead of a Chianti.

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    1. Re:Then Hannibal was wrong by funkboy · · Score: 1

      Hannibal was commenting on someone's liver, for which Chianti could be a very nice match. Liver would overpower a delicate Burgundy.

    2. Re:Then Hannibal was wrong by joejor · · Score: 2, Informative
      He chose a different wine in the book.
      An interesting sidenote is that Dr. Lecter never uttered his most famous line in the novels. Although he was excellently portratyed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1991 film version of Silence of the Lambs, the character in the novel never said, "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti". Dr. Lecter was an oenophile with rarefied tastes, and in the novel he ate human liver with "a big amarone". Fearing that audiences would be confused by the more obscure wine, the makers of the movie decided to change the wine to a more mundane but more easily recognizable chianti.
    3. Re:Then Hannibal was wrong by TheCarp · · Score: 1

      You know... if you got the liver of a binge drinking college student, it would probably be pretty close to fois gras. I don't see that overpowering anything, it tastes like... butter.

      I was amused that the one time I had it (which was recent), ws over a fancy diner with a bunch of doctors (it was me, a lawyer and like 4 MDs), one of them ordered some fois gras. Another commented "thats basically what your liver looks like after a few days of heavy drinking" ....mmmm buttery liver.....

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  34. Aztecs Can Confirm! by NoTailNoGoodnik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The robot probably isn't far off...

    The Aztecs had a long legacy of cannibalism as part of their religious ceremonies. It was considered (I assume by those not experiencing it) an honor to be killed and eaten as a token to their god(s).

    After the Spanish came and forcefully converted the native American survivors to Roman Catholocism, the Aztecs adopted the stigma attached to cannibalism. However, they couldn't get enough of that porcine protein brought over from Europe. When asked about their focused consumption of pigs, the former people eaters replied with a simple answer: pigs taste like you and me.

  35. Humans and Swine Not Dissimilar by AeroIllini · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We would be good on a sandwich.

    Humans and pigs are actually fairly close anatomically, which is why high school students dissect pig fetuses every year and why pigs are a promising species in the field of Xenotransplantation. And it's really not distressing at all, after you get over the ick factor. We're not made of magical fairy dust ... we are flesh and bone just like any other mammal, and it seems reasonable to believe that animals which are similar anatomically would have similar compounds that generate similar tastes.

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    1. Re:Humans and Swine Not Dissimilar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Would monkeys and chimps also taste like pig since we are after all somewhat related to them?

  36. Humans: Just a Bunch of Pigs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We alien life forms living incognito (hence the Anonymous Coward posting) have always known you humans are just a bunch of pigs that happen to look a little like hairless monkeys. And you should know, we find you quite tasty. There's nothing quite as satisfying for lunch as an HLT sandwich...

  37. Um, bacon is the polite way of putting it by Colin+Smith · · Score: 1

    What it really said is that you smell like a pig.

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  38. no surprise here by tpjunkie · · Score: 0, Redundant

    South Pacific islanders that practiced cannabalism used to refer to human meat as "Long Pig" around westerners so as not to clue them in, and furthermore, those same peoples became avid consumers of SPAM, which they claim tasted pretty darn close to people.

  39. ah by inKubus · · Score: 1

    Here I always thought PASTRAMI was the king of the smoked meats.

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  40. Don't take it lying down! by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Funny

    What does robot taste like?

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    1. Re:Don't take it lying down! by Epsillon · · Score: 5, Funny

      What does robot taste like?

      Irony.

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    2. Re:Don't take it lying down! by finkployd · · Score: 1

      Only one way to find out.

      Bite his shiny metal ass

      Finkployd

    3. Re:Don't take it lying down! by Stanistani · · Score: 4, Funny

      Mmmm. Irony...

  41. Stand back! I gotta practice my stabbin'! HA HAAAA by Picass0 · · Score: 1

    Roberto is one crazy robot... but seriously, bacon? Not "ugly bags of mostly water?"

  42. Well at least we don't taste like Spam by wisebabo · · Score: 1

    Well at least we don't taste like Spam

  43. Journalists discover GIGO, News at 11. by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Troll

    GIGO = Garbage In, Garbage Out, for all you people who shouldn't even be reading this site.

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  44. Nothing to worry about by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 1

    Really, there's nothing to worry about, since as Asimov pointed out in his story "Reason" (1941), the robots are not likely to find pork appealing: "There is no master but the Master, and QT-1 is his prophet." ;-) (My friend is a Muslim, so I can make this joke ... I think.)

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  45. AM I THE ONLY ONE TO WONDER... by Volanin · · Score: 1

    Erm... What does brains tastes like?

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    1. Re:AM I THE ONLY ONE TO WONDER... by mstahl · · Score: 1

      Ask a zombie.

  46. I wonder if only the hand tastes like bacon? by GungaDan · · Score: 1

    I bet the tongue tastes like tongue.

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  47. So now... everyone... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Everyone smells or tastes like bacon. It says it was the "smart" reporter. Maybe a picture of him or his menu for that day could tell why.

    Moral of the story (falling into the same generalization): reporters don't wash their hands. Beware of shaking hands with a reporter.

  48. taste/smell by Faaln · · Score: 1

    I'm relatively sure that the robot may have been "tasting" the soap and other hygiene products the two had used that day in combination with their skin, we'd probably have to use it in a clean room to see what we really taste like.

    1. Re:taste/smell by painQuin · · Score: 1

      when you say "soap" you mean "lunch they had just eaten" perhaps?

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  49. Posting bug explained by From+A+Far+Away+Land · · Score: 1

    I guess the bacon eating robot got Taco and Cowboy Neal.
    There will be no threading today
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/09/153420 4&threshold=0

  50. smells like it by gad_zuki! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    True story. I was having radiosurgery to remove a birthmark a couple of years ago. Essentially it burns off the skin in a way that allows it to heal with no scarring. I'm dosed up with Novocain and am lying down trying not think of whats going on a few inches from my eyes. Suddenly it smells like burning pork. I think to myself "What the hell is burning." A moment later I realized it was me.

    1. RE: Smells like it by From+A+Far+Away+Land · · Score: 1

      I agree that humans roasted smell like pork. Don't ask me how I know.

      OK, you can ask me, because I don't really know, I was just trying to scare you a little. I'd guess there are some firefighters or hospital staff out there that could confirm or deny your smell sense.

    2. Re:smells like it by Piquan · · Score: 1

      Funny... I recently had some tissue in my throat cauterized. (Like, two days ago.) I'm trying to think about the smell-- which was very strong, as there was lots of smoke billowing out of my nose and mouth-- but it reminded me of burning wood (as in, artistic woodburning, not fireplace), not pork. Not sure what that means.

    3. Re:smells like it by wilec · · Score: 1

      Yea, I had a polyp removed from my tongue a few years back. The following cauterization procedure, with believe it or not a Craftsman 110v arc welder as a power source, smelled to me a lot like a nice rib eye on the grill. Maybe if I had not been so terrified and pain wrecked I might have discerned that it smelled more like pork loin.

      Wabi-Sabi
      Matthew

  51. funny on so many levels by timmarhy · · Score: 1

    it makes perfect sense that the robot would think this. we use pig skin graphs on burns victims, so pig skin and human must be very similar.

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  52. humans, the other pork by budgenator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We're a lot closer to swine than most would imagine, pigskin has been used for xenografts for human burn victims and of course pig heart valves have been implanted into people. Rumor even has it that we taste about the same, ever heard the saying, "humans, the other pork" or the term long-pig?

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    1. Re:humans, the other pork by wilec · · Score: 1

      IANARN (I Am Not A Religious Nut) but I can't wonder if such issues are not at the root of the ban on consumption by the religions of Abraham of "unclean" animals like swine. Of course the really interesting direction this quickly leads questions like "how was this knowledge acquired".

      Wabi-Sabi
      Matthew

  53. The cameraman then...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Takes the robots and points it at the reporters crouch.
    Beep beep,.......
    cherio,...a bit salty.
    2 currants also salty.....

  54. Pig Fucker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Terrance: You're such a pig-fucker, Phillip!
    Phillip: Terrance, why would you call me a pig-fucker?
    Terrance: Well, let's see. First of all, you fuck pigs.
    Phillip: Oh yeah!

  55. that's odd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    when i eat my girlfriend it doesn't taste like bacon at all!

  56. Vegetarian alternative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a vegetarian, I'm going to stick to hufu, the "tofu-based product that is meant to resemble, as realistically as possible, the taste and texture of human flesh"!

    1. Re:Vegetarian alternative by Valdrax · · Score: 1

      Considering what tofu products vegetarians have deluded themselves into thinking taste like bacon, cheese, hamburger, etc., I'm guessing that cannibals would probably find it offensive and just kill and eat you as a substitute if you offered it to them.

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  57. It picked up the cameraman as prosciutto? by Beefysworld · · Score: 1

    This robot is smarter than people think. It can also tell a person's nationality by taste!

  58. So basically... by Kazrath · · Score: 0

    When I used to call the fat kid a pig I wasn't to far off. Maybe the whole bacon thing is occuring because the amount of obese people in the world continues to climb? Cut the fat and we will be back to chicken.

  59. This is Old News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Its gone out of circulation but an old term for meat from a human was "long pig."

    The most disturbing part of this is how did the robot get to "taste" human flesh?

    BTW, Do usernames eventually get dropped from slashdot if you don't login? Or is something wrong with slashdot? its not recognizing my email, or my username.

  60. Distressing? by meanfriend · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not if the robots are vegan.

    I'm not at all concerned about getting eaten by Asimo or TMX Elmo.

    If the Matrix , the Terminator, and Futurama have taught me anything, is that robots would be more likely to farm me, shoot me, or steal from me first.

    I'd be more worried about getting eaten by *you*, should the robo-apocalypse ever come to pass...

  61. The obvious way to save ourselves: by Cyberblah · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only build Jewish robots.

    1. Re:The obvious way to save ourselves: by doug141 · · Score: 1

      You ever try to circumcise one of those things!?!

    2. Re:The obvious way to save ourselves: by barbazoo · · Score: 1
      Only build Jewish robots.

      That would be a Golem I guess.
    3. Re:The obvious way to save ourselves: by tehcyder · · Score: 1
      Only build Jewish robots.
      Or Muslim ones.
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    4. Re:The obvious way to save ourselves: by LiLWiP · · Score: 0

      Someone get this news to Al Quaeda! It is considered the ultimate disgrace in the Muslim religion to die with a pig or eat pork (they are considered filthy animals). Might put a stop to all the suicide bombings if they know that humans are pork products!

    5. Re:The obvious way to save ourselves: by CrazyTalk · · Score: 1

      Not true! Jews are allowed to eat things that *Taste* like bacon (bacon bits made from soy, beef bacon, etc.) - just not the real thing. Jewish Robots presumbaly would be prohibited from digging on swine, but not people.

  62. Ah, but... by Robot+Randy · · Score: 2, Funny

    What will the robot say Kevin Bacon tastes like?

  63. SPAM by frieza79 · · Score: 1

    At least we're not identified as SPAM and just tossed away.

  64. Ob song quote by FusionDragon2099 · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that we won't survive
    We'll be eaten alive by robots!


    -Lemon Demon, "When Robots Attack"

  65. MMMM pork by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The sad thing is pork is my favorite meat. MMMMM I love the pink stuff the chinese place calls Pork. Maybe I am destined to be a cannibal?

  66. Ham it up, fat boy! by shanec · · Score: 2, Funny
    A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto

    Sounds about right. Most cameramen I know (including myself) are just big hams!

  67. Well, I smell like bacon by The+Great+Pretender · · Score: 1

    ...at least the last time I zapped myself with 1200 watts of RF the was a definite smell of bacon coming from my finger...

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  68. The robot continued... by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 1

    ...that the reporter might be best servered with fava beans and a nice chianti, followed it's suggestion with a quick slirping-hiss sound.

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  69. The Robot Got It Right - Reply by JavaManJim · · Score: 1

    Also humans are too fat like bacon.

    "Villemarette said eating chips, in a roundabout way, presents a problem when a human skeleton is being processed. The [dermestid] beetles don't like to eat human tissue, he said, because of the volume of grease in human bones and meat."

    Source: a Boston Globe article that was widely distributed in October.
    http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/ 110106dnbusskulls.2e2231f.html

    Off topic, I wish this would slot under "The Robot Got it Right"

    Thanks,
    Jim Burke

  70. Bacon vs Spam by 8ball629 · · Score: 1

    Hey... at least we don't taste like spam.

  71. Foreign tastes by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 1

    So if Japanese people taste like bacon, what do Canadians taste like?

    1. Re:Foreign tastes by laejoh · · Score: 0

      So if Japanese people taste like bacon, what do Canadians taste like?


      I don't know, but I'd guess French people taste like chicken. ;)

    2. Re:Foreign tastes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Canadian bacon?

  72. It ain't racism, it's humor by SQLGuru · · Score: 1

    Human, the other, other white meat....

    Layne

  73. What the Robot Really Said Was... by wahman143 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "All Your Flesh Are Belong to Us"

    1. Re:What the Robot Really Said Was... by Lipongo · · Score: 1

      Oy vey!

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      -Certified TechnoWeinie
    2. Re:What the Robot Really Said Was... by Aqua_boy17 · · Score: 1

      Main screen turn on

      What cooking?
      Someone set us up the bacon.

      --
      What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
  74. that's good by grumpyman · · Score: 1

    I mean this is pretty accurate... modern human flesh ARE bacon. It's not like it think human taste like banana or skunk.

  75. Taste of human by miles31337 · · Score: 1

    Does that mean we can fend off Cthulhu with bacon?

  76. I'm having a Devo moment.. by aitala · · Score: 1

    Are we not ham?

    Heh.

    DrE

    --
    Eric Aitala
    www.f1m.com
  77. All your base by rHBa · · Score: 1

    All your base are belong to... ...hmmmmm crackling!

  78. Our only hope now... by monopole · · Score: 1

    Is to convert all robots to Judaism.
    Then we'll be fine until we hit the Y5K crisis.

  79. This reminds of student congress... by Libertarian001 · · Score: 1

    ...back in high school. I wasn't actually on it, but I had several friends who were. I used to write bills for them.

    One in particular mandated that all executions were to be done via electric chair. Since that had the effect of cooking people, we tried to tie it to a feed the homeless person bill.

    At one point in the debate, my bill's sponsor said, "And whereas human flesh tastes like pork..." and was promptly interrupted by another of my friends saying, "Point of order, tastes like chicken" (because that was the joke going around then, that everything tasted like chicken).

    That started the whole congress off on an argument.

    They later passed a resolution that I wasn't allowed to author any more bills.

    Good times.

  80. ok.. I'll ask since no one else has.. by Sassinak · · Score: 1

    So what would a police officer taste like considering that your average "joe" and "jane" taste like Bacon to the Robot?

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  81. Try some hufu by D+H+NG · · Score: 1
  82. Humans, the other white meat! by JChung2006 · · Score: 1

    Was this joke in poor taste? ;)

  83. Heinlein's long pig? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wasn't it in _Stranger in a Strange Land_ that Heinlein suggested that human tasted like pork?

  84. I am now two things. by Itninja · · Score: 1

    I always knew I was hot. Now I know I am hot AND delicious!

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  85. Eat my shorts! by Facuman · · Score: 0

    Morbo says "Pathetic humans, prepare to write down the recipe!!, all humans are vermin in the eyes of Morbo."

  86. So many jokes.... by dgatwood · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The obvious question is whether the people in question had just touched a pork product....

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    1. Re:So many jokes.... by superyooser · · Score: 1

      You are what you eat.

  87. Shens! by Ruff_ilb · · Score: 1

    This is /., you don't have a wife!

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  88. Another Diebold product? by LM741N · · Score: 1

    enough said

  89. obligatory Heinlein reference by jmb-d · · Score: 1

    Anyone here read Farnham's Freehold?

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    -- Yun-Men
  90. It's true by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I saw a show where a woman went around to several prisons interviewing convicted killers who were also cannibals and at the end of each interview she would ask them what it taste like and they all said without fail pork.

    It kind of put me off eating pork for a week or two. But I love ham.

    The really scary thing about the show was that the last guy a man in japan was out of prison. He killed a blond girl in Italy and they sent him back home to Japan where he basically got a slap on the wrist. He was so sick he said he thought he could get some of here strength and vitality or something.

  91. Did They kill someone? by A+Wise+Guy · · Score: 1

    I just wondering how a robot managed to figure out that bacon tastes like humen flesh. Did they kill someone and feed it to the robot?

  92. Future battle strategy against the robots by istartedi · · Score: 1

    Although battling them will always be dangerous, take care to avoid engagements during breakfast hours.

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    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
  93. and so it begins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You MUST destroy that robot before it tells the others.
    The safety of the human race depends on it.

  94. That's what I've been saying all these years... by ndogg · · Score: 1

    I mean, uhh, that's what my, uhm, cat has been saying all these years. Yeah, cat...

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  95. Wash your hands by carnun · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who thought that the robot probably tasted whatever crossed the journalist's hands before putting them inside the robots mouth? It's not like the robot chomped off a finger and said "Hmmm, can I have eggs with that?".

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    1. Re:Wash your hands by SpanishArcher · · Score: 1

      I did a full text search on the comments for "hands", and I saw your post.
      I was going to write just about the same things.

      Anyway, you're right, I'd expected more people to come out with that....

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      640KB of virtualized ram will be enough for everybody
  96. And I bet comedians taste just like ham... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    and if they do, then do politicians taste like salt pork?

  97. We taste best BBQ'ed by slavelayer · · Score: 0

    Here are some good man beef recipes for our new flesh eating overlords! http://web.archive.org/web/20010411085114/www.manb eef.com/bbq.html

  98. Wonder what I taste like? by Black-Six · · Score: 1

    My BMI is 31% fat. Would this mean that I taste like sausge or do I fall in between it and bacon?

  99. Mandatory Simpsons Reference by beanpolerc · · Score: 0, Redundant

    mmmmmmmmmmmm, bacon

  100. There's a reason cannibilism is called "Long Pig" by cc_pirate · · Score: 1

    There's a reason cannibalism is called eating "Long Pig"....

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  101. the Fijians were way ahead of the 'bot by quixote9 · · Score: 1

    Score one for the humans. Fijians had the longest history of documented cannibalism of any society on earth. (They're completely over it now. Incredibly friendly people. Honest.) And the Fijian name for humans who were on the menu was "long pig."

  102. What has science done by arrrrrpirates · · Score: 0

    Now that they've developed a taste for human flesh there's no stopping them.

  103. Why??? by XMyth · · Score: 1

    Why are they feeding robots humans? Have things gotten that bad already? We didn't even have time to welcome our new overlords!

  104. I assume this has been said, but... by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 1


    Journalists ARE pigs.

    And they write cheap spam.

    What's your point?

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  105. but bacon is delicious by arrrrrpirates · · Score: 0

    In conclusion, humans are delicious.

  106. This actually makes sense by DrTacos · · Score: 1

    Humans are quite similar in anatomy to pigs, so much so that it has been proposed that pigs be used to grow fake organs for humans. The fact that the robot monster would identify two pork products is logical considering that it has not actually been trained to taste humans.

  107. Hold on here... by Tarlus · · Score: 1

    "The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle."

    How does that work? If it has to be given a sample, then they would have to open the bottle...

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  108. Not pork, veal by demi · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell, this is the best evaluation of the various evaluations of human flesh, and it turns out it's like veal. Not pork.

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    demi
  109. The Other Other White Meat by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 2, Funny

    Being a savory pork flavor and all, I figured calling tasty human steaks "The Other Other White Meat" would be the perfect catch phrase to start the Marketing kickoff for the North American Human Meat Producers Alliance with. But, then I realized that Africans, Asians and Native Americans would get upset because it's so "white-centric".

    See how polarized we've become on the race card?
    So I guess we'll just have to play into it.

    Humans: The Black, White, Red and Yellow Meat, Taste the Rainbow Next to Your Potatoes

    There, I hope you're all happy.

  110. Kosher/Halal? by nil0lab · · Score: 1

    Anyone care to speculate on the Old Testament prohibition?

    1. Re:Kosher/Halal? by nil0lab · · Score: 1

      Oops. I meant the origins of...

    2. Re:Kosher/Halal? by multipartmixed · · Score: 1

      We have toe nails. I think those count as cloven hooves.

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  111. Some tips by Xymor · · Score: 1

    If your're eating human chops I'd recomend a Grande Estude Grenache Merlot 2002, its fruity complements well the flavor. If you're having a human ass roast beef, I'd prefer a Sauvignon Blanc 2001, the appleness quality goes well with the pork taste of human meat.

  112. Hannibal had no class. by Rimbo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Obviously, if we taste like pork, he should have used a white instead of Chianti.

  113. Obligatory Futurama by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Kill all humans! Must kill all humans!"

    "Bender, wake up!"

    "Wah? Oh, I was having a wonderful dream. I think you were in it."

  114. It's BACON! by chrissam · · Score: 1

    Humin' Strips®. Robots don't know it's not bacon!

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  115. You know what's next by Stephen+Tennant · · Score: 1

    SAUSAGE

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  116. They're not going to eat us. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    RTFA they taste with their finger. They found out soeone tasted like bacon when the robot shook his hand. The robot won't eat us.

  117. Of course by kbox · · Score: 1
    The Japanese robot is intended to act as a personal sommelier, suggesting wines, cheeses, and hors d'oeuvres based on its owners personal tastes.
    AT LAST!!
  118. we are what we eat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    eat up while it last

  119. On Hawaii by Sfing_ter · · Score: 1

    In some sections of Hawaii, white people are called "Long Pig"... this is for a reason...

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  120. Kosher Food by dptalia · · Score: 1

    Maybe the Jews had it right all along? Eating pork is bad!

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  121. Bacon...? by alexjohnc3 · · Score: 0

    Personally, I think it tastes like chicken.

  122. Just one question..... by Overfiend1976 · · Score: 1

    Cooked or raw?

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  123. And where did they get the flesh? by cpotoso · · Score: 1

    Without RFA: Probably a graduate student doing research in their lab... :)

  124. This is responsible journalistic reporting? by bitbucketeer · · Score: 1

    Occam wagers that the reporters probably just got finished with lunch and didn't wash their hands afterwards. It's probably a good thing that one of the reporters didn't cup a fart in their hand for the robot.

  125. THAT explains why... by Goraek · · Score: 1

    I was always hungry after the anatomy and dissection labs..
    used to go to Uni. Chinese at Broadway for Sweet & Sour Pork or Pork Spare Rib on Rice.

    This wonderful discovery finally explains why:
    a). I always craved those particular dishes after the cutting labs.
    b). it was only those particular dishes that would make some of the "gentler-folk" in the class look a bit ill... (hey, everyone gets hungry in dissection labs... *everyone*) about 1/4 of the class turned vegetarian for a bit that year.

    Robotic cullinary revelations asside.. I'm sure that pork would be a leaner meat than ppl-flesh.

  126. Human Strips by Thexare+Blademoon · · Score: 1

    Bots don't know it's not bacon.

  127. I for one... by Tablizer · · Score: 1

    ...welcome our human-salting overlords.

  128. Robot at the Reply buttons by Tablizer · · Score: 1

    ...they taste like clickin'

  129. I wonder what mutant superhuman tastes like? by k3vlar · · Score: 1

    You have offended ALL my super senses. By god, I can TASTE the air around you. It's like bacon gone bad. Credit where credit is due

    --
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  130. prosciutto? by bobalu · · Score: 1

    This IS bad. I think the Italians have some rules about what can legally be referred to as "prosciutto".

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  131. Never mind humans, what about itself? by sethstorm · · Score: 1

    Any word on what it thought what other parts of itself was(w/o any added intelligence that it is probing itself)?

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  132. One More Reason to Eat Kosher by cyberscan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The pig (swine) and "long pig" (what cannibals call people) are very similar internally. It is one reason why swine diseases are so easily transmitted between humans and pigs. When questioned by police, the cannibal will say, "Yes I ate her, she tasted like pork. Now may she rest in pieces."

    The monkyist religion (Darwinism) states that our ancestor is an apelike critter, yet the pig is much more similar to humans than are other primates. Even the protein structures of primate flesh is more different from humans than pigs are from humans. This is one of many holes in the monkeyist religion. However, other theories of how we got here are not allowed to be presented in schools despite scientific evidence.

    1. Re:One More Reason to Eat Kosher by imthesponge · · Score: 1

      "despite scientific evidence."

      Do tell.

  133. They're Made of Meat by alexj33 · · Score: 0

    Reminds me of this short story:

    http://www.andrewsharpe.com/humor/meat.html

  134. queue Invader Zim ... by Bobtree · · Score: 1

    "I'm delicious!" -Dib

  135. No worries ... by rlp · · Score: 1

    The robots are only here "To Serve Man".

    --
    [Insert pithy quote here]
  136. You are what you eat after all.... by rubberbando · · Score: 1

    Thats why I'd prefer to stick with being an animal rather than a vegetable.... :)

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  137. Forget the robots by Joebert · · Score: 1

    Where the hell did theese people get human flesh ?

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  138. Not human by jm1234567890 · · Score: 1

    I think the person who put his hand to the robot probably ate bacon previously.

  139. Apocalypse Soonish by Demiansmark · · Score: 1

    That's why you don't confuse 'How to Cook for Forty Humans' with 'How to Cook Forty Humans' as a reference text for AIs, overloads, robots, or NES Gyromite ROB units...

  140. Well Hello Clarice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The computer was quoted as saying "f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f"

  141. A Tasty Solution To... by CarnivorousCoder · · Score: 1

    ...world hunger AND population growth!

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  142. Without Opening the Bottle? by pete-classic · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle


    Who cares about the human flesh bit? They've not only invented a robot that can taste, but one that can taste through glass!

    Also, why would a winery doubt the authenticity of their own wine? Is this in case someone breaks in and steals their wine, but replaces it with an exact duplicate?

    -Peter
    1. Re: Without Opening the Bottle? by khendron · · Score: 1
      Also, why would a winery doubt the authenticity of their own wine? Is this in case someone breaks in and steals their wine, but replaces it with an exact duplicate?

      Wineries that are still using real corks might be able to tell if a wine has been tainted with trichloroanisole (cork taint) before shipping the wine. About 5% to 10% of wines with corks get cork taint, and wineries would rather that bad bottles not make it into the hands of the consumer.


      Also, though wineries might not need to authenticate their own bottles, the counterfeit alcohol market is very large. Something to the tune of $400,000,000 per year. Being able to determine the authenticity of a bottle of Petrus, Opus One, or Canadian icewine without opening the bottle would come in very handy for any wine reseller.

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  143. Tackhead said by SonOfThor · · Score: 1
    Ask a Polynesian cannibal why they called it long pig. If there are no Polynesian cannibals in your area, ask a soldier or fireman what burning human flesh smells like. We smell like pork when we're well-done. The robot got it absolutely right. And I, for one, would like to remind the robot that I'm absolutely delicious when served with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
    Chas? is that you? posting to slashdot? wow. I've seen it all now.
  144. Soylent Bits... by SiliconAddict · · Score: 1

    robots don't know it's not bacon.

  145. This worries me by brownsteve · · Score: 1
    It also apparently thinks humans would be tasty...
    Robots eating humans? Sounds like something straight out of The Matrix.
  146. People: the other other white meat? by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 1
    Start with feeding it dandruff and old scabs.

    Yum.

    RS

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  147. Tell your webmaster... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm adding this to all my robots.txt files:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /munching/

  148. Or.. by Vix666 · · Score: 1

    ..if it were from a certian part of the female anatomy, i'd have be identified as fish
    *snicker**snicker*

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  149. If this is 100% true by kyjl · · Score: 1

    Then we could solve our population problem: Cannibalism!

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    Perl, n. A language spoken by Eskimos.
    1. Re:If this is 100% true by noigmn · · Score: 1
      Then we could solve our population problem
      And third world famine at the same time. The concept has been around a long time. I'm not sure why they haven't implemented it yet...maybe underfed people don't taste as nice or something.
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  150. All things considered... by lptport1 · · Score: 1

    That's not particularly surprising. Pigs and humans have similar dietary tendencies (omnivorous, like the robot), and most likely, fairly similar proteins. We're not that distantly related. The concern is that living humans aren't cooked, and so shouldn't smell quite the same as bacon. Interesting.

    Though I could see someone tying in an Animal Farm reference, if they wanted.

  151. Why by ansemond · · Score: 1

    Because like us, Pigs are omnivores. As they say, you are what you eat.

  152. This is old news... by natet · · Score: 1

    It's on wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu

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  153. Tastes Like by vlad30 · · Score: 1

    I went to see a human body exhibition (real dead humans plasticized ) some peices could easily be mistaken for pork chops

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  154. Oh noes! My wife's right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... when she tells me that I am a shovinist pig.

  155. Krahulik and Holkins were right! by Jesus_666 · · Score: 1

    The attack of the bacon robots is near!

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  156. ObFamilyGuy by Dr.+Photo · · Score: 1

    > Only build Jewish robots.

    Like Optimus Prime! ;-D

  157. Meatbags... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Amused Comment: Notwithstanding the delicious taste, according to the robot laws, we would not even be capable of thinking about using the meatbags as an additional power source... except in a case of extreme emergency, of course, if you know what I mean.

  158. I think you'll find the problem is actually by RationalRoot · · Score: 1

    That too many humans are too close to pigs.

    1) Will eat anything
    2) Will eat anything
    3) Will eat anything

    D

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  159. Let's all hope... by joetheappleguy · · Score: 1

    ...That robots keep kosher.

  160. huh, this article again? by SuperDre · · Score: 0

    I'm not sure, but wasn't this article already published some month's ago on /.? at least to me this is old news..

  161. bacon by berberine · · Score: 1

    mmmmmmmm bacon

  162. piggy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Women were right! Men are all pigs!

  163. Oh my god... by wossName · · Score: 1

    Penny Arcade knew it all along !

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  164. Old news by The+MESMERIC · · Score: 1

    All my victims tasted like pork. And when left to be dry-cured in my cellar, the most exquisite bacon.

    So what is new?

  165. Which Bacon? by CrimsonScythe · · Score: 1

    Which Bacon are we talking about here? I bet it's Kevin, cause it's probably not Michael or Sir Francis. Assuming it's Kevin, should he be served at 6 degrees?

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  166. Perhaps... by master_p · · Score: 1

    ...the flesh sample came from a cop???

  167. Bacon flavoured hand by bdonegan · · Score: 1

    Not necissarily. Maybe they were eating sausages by hand?

  168. BLT..er..HLT by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 1

    Waiter! I'll have a human, lettuce, and tomato sandwich! On toast. And a glass of 30-weight Pennzoil, no ice. And snap it up, the service here is terrible! Move those gears, you slackerbot !

  169. Discrimination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Or Muslim robots. Just remember not to put alcohol-powered batteries on them.

  170. Coming to a supermarket... by Bazar · · Score: 1

    Coming to a supermarket near you Locally grown and imported from 3rd world nations, its the newest taste sensation I Can't Believe Its Not Bacon

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  171. That's ungodly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Robots should be made to serve man.

  172. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A wine-testing expert upon being forcefully given a part of a robot to taste spoke in a childlike voice identyfying the sample as a car fender. Robots around the globe are reported to be very distressed by this mistake.

  173. Ever bite your tongue? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Fresh blood has a distinct taste of iron. So it's likely that robots, in a way, taste like humans too...

  174. "They're Made Out of Meat" by OnTheWay · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the very funny SF short story "They're Made Out of Meat" by Terry Bisson. Only 4 pages, and utterly hilarious. You can find it in his collection "Bears Discover Fire."

  175. a matter of taste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I once asked a gypsy what hedgehog tasted like, he said it's a bit like chicken and bit like cat.

  176. Where are the Soylent Green Jokes? by nurb432 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Soylent ( any of the varites ) didnt taste like bacon, Its far too (over)processed. It tastes more like white bread, or plain crackers. Perhaps a bit like plain tofu even.

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    1. Re:Where are the Soylent Green Jokes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are supposed to warn -- now you've gone and spoiled the movie for the entire /. audience!

    2. Re:Where are the Soylent Green Jokes? by nurb432 · · Score: 1

      If they havent seen it by now.. then there is a problem anyway

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  177. I want my baby back, ribs by Dacmot · · Score: 1

    I can't believe it's not bacon!

  178. Just like those aliens on The Twilight Zone . . . by Anomalous+Cowbird · · Score: 1

    . . . they only want "To Serve Man."

  179. Perhaps its time to contact the folks at Old Glory by GeneticDrifter · · Score: 1

    Anybody know anty good Robot Insurance companies? My rates just shot through the roof! http://www.robotcombat.com/video_oldglory_hi.html/

  180. Re:Bacon? Obligatory word from Urban Dictionary... by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 1

    OMG, people have the weirdest fetishes....

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  181. Bit where did the robot get the sample... by arwel · · Score: 1

    to compare against bacon? Has someone disappeared lately? Hello? Hello?

  182. Sodium chloride by singingjim · · Score: 0

    Must be the salt on the skin. Bacon and prosciutto have a high salt content. [/serious post]

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  183. CHUNKY BACON !!! by partenon · · Score: 1
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  184. Then why.. by s31523 · · Score: 1

    if this is true, why don't sharks like to eat us?

  185. the children! by neuro_guy · · Score: 1

    This is a most cynical discussion. Will someone pleas think of the children! Oh wait, I know what you'll say next: mmmhhh, children. I like children...

  186. Aftermarket modification by OhHellWithIt · · Score: 1

    Quick, get that thing to a mohel!

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  187. At least it does not think we taste like Chicken. by dennis_k85 · · Score: 1

    Bacon is not so bad, at least it does not think we taste like Chicken. That would be to human.

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  188. How about..? by Jim+Hall · · Score: 1

    How about "In the future, there will be robots"?

    1. Re:How about..? by somersault · · Score: 1

      and Spandex!

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  189. Nanobot Repair by Dareth · · Score: 1

    Just make sure the advanced robot's nanobot repair team knows not to "fix" the robots circumcision!

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  190. Re:Just like those aliens on The Twilight Zone . . by gramji · · Score: 1

    it's a cookbook. it's a cookbook.

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  191. How do the robots know what humans taste like? by stinkyweezelteets · · Score: 0

    Maybe they couldn't figure out what chicken tastes like and that's why chicken tastes like everything. Maybe tasty wheat tastes more like oatmeal.

  192. Not so distressing by twosmokes · · Score: 1

    This is most distressing.

    I would have been much more concerned if the robot immediately reported Tasty Human Meat.

  193. Isin't that... by Neo_piper · · Score: 1

    Hey that's a just PaPeRo r100 with an added arm, the spectrometer and a little hat!

    Proof
    Link: http://www.incx.nec.co.jp/robot/english/robotcente r_e.html

  194. To Serve Man by Number6.2 · · Score: 1

    will now only have one page:

    Human, Lettuce, Tomato. And maybe a shchmeer of Mayo...

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  195. We're bacon? by hoosier_geek · · Score: 1

    That means we're toast!

    1. Re:We're bacon? by scheming+daemons · · Score: 1
      That means we're toast!

      Cool! you're 50% of the way to a BLT!

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  196. grammar nazi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "owners" should be written as "owner's," "owners'," or "pwnz0rz." It continually amazes me, even in my current drunken stupor, that a site as big as slashdot cannot afford to hire competent editors.
    '

  197. Moo by Chacham · · Score: 1

    Guess the term "the other white meat" will have to go.

  198. Long pig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  199. What tastes good with bacon? by xeno-cat · · Score: 1

    More Bacon!!!

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    1. Re:What tastes good with bacon? by redshirt1111 · · Score: 1

      Mmmmm.... humanity.....

  200. News flash! by Guppy06 · · Score: 1

    Bacon? Prosciutto? Fatty mammals taste like othe fatty mammals! Film at eleven!

    I mean, there are reasons why we use pig organs in transplants.

  201. Wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just wow. You're amazingly stupid. I can't even bring myself to dignify your post with an argument. Please go take a class in biology.

    Just for the record, Darwin stated that modern humans and apes may have had a common ancestor, not that our ancestors were apes. Species change radically over time.

  202. Who's this "They"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And do they do deliveries?

  203. Cunning Linguists by Pfhorrest · · Score: 1

    humans tasted just like chicken. (I haven't summoned the courage to ask my wife what she thinks I taste like.)

    You know, you *could* always just see what *she* tastes like yourself... not that that really has any reflection on what you taste like.

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  204. Levi Strauss said it before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A very famous 19th century and early 20th century anthropologist working with cannibal tribes in South America said human flesh tasted disturbingly like pork, which means the robot is right with the bacon/proscuito assessment.

    Also,it means human flesh is not kosher ;-)

  205. The real irony is... by scheming+daemons · · Score: 1

    When Kevin Bacon put his hand in the robot, it said "chicken".

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  206. Has anyont thought that MAYBE.... by scheming+daemons · · Score: 1
    ...the reporter had just eaten bacon and had forgotten to wash his hands?

    (It would've been embarrassing for the reporter to have just come out of the john and have the robot say "shit".)

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  207. South Park by TranscendentalAnarch · · Score: 1

    The reporter is actually Manbearpig.

  208. Dammit! by Phoenix666 · · Score: 1

    Dammit, /.! I was eating lunch!

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  209. Supposedly pork is least allergenic meat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe Circe was somehow involved.

  210. Re:The obvious way to save ourselves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    people are not kosher according to "kashrut" law
    as they are not hooved nor regurgitate their food.
    therefore a jewish robot could not dine on humans
    either. chianti and fava beans are ok though. yum!

  211. Bible by NuShrike · · Score: 1

    This is why the Bible says to not eat pork (besides the rampant parasites in them at the time)?

  212. Re:Perhaps its time to contact the folks at Old Gl by qubezz · · Score: 1

    American Scientists would have just made a spectrometer with data capture in a laptop. The Japanese have to go and put it in a frikkin robot!! Any good invention needs to be in a robot! Next, coffee making ROBOT! MP3 playing ROBOT! Sock washing ROBOT!! Imagine the future!