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Scientists Develop Nutritious Seaweed That Tastes Like Bacon
cold fjord writes: According to a New Zealand Herald report, "Researchers at Oregon State University have patented a new strain of succulent red marine algae that tastes like bacon when it's cooked. The protein-packed algae sea vegetable called dulse grows extraordinarily fast and is wild along the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines. It has been sold for centuries in a dried form around northern Europe, used in cooking and as a nutritional supplement. ... Chris Langdon has created a new strain of the weed which looks like a translucent red lettuce. An excellent source of minerals, vitamins and antioxidants, the "superfood" contains up to 16 per cent protein in dry weight. ... It has twice the nutritional value of kale." Langdon says, "When you fry it, which I have done, it tastes like bacon, not seaweed. And it's a pretty strong bacon flavor."
..and take my money!
Even Turkey "bacon" does not taste like Bacon, usually these things end up being pretty disappointing.
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Obviously, if their company mascot isn't a sea pig, they're morons.
Should we trust anything that uses the buzzword "superfood"?
Don't tell Monsanto!
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
Do stories from the US have to be routed through the New Zealand media now?
Time, Huffingtonpost, even the Daily Mail are running this story, and the original press release is here:
http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/...
needs a touch of Soylent Green to perk up the meal...
Title says that they've "developed" the strain.
And yet, further in the post.. "It has been sold for centuries in a dried form around northern Europe"
Just a thing.
When I fry things in delicious bacon fat, they also taste of bacon.
Soylent Green - Tastes like Bacon.
Shut-up and take my money. . .
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when fried, usually tastes like a cured food, because *shock* it is loaded with seawater.
It looks like it has always tasted like bavon when fried. Not a real innovation there but I do want to see dulse beer.
The researchers who have invented bacon that tastes like seaweed are having trouble generating the same amount of buzz. . .
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I'm all for these kind of foods, but this is NOT what patents were intended to do, and the economic result is negative for society as a whole, not positive. By granting and enforcing this patent, government is setting a precedent where eventually all crops will be patented -- because all crops are the result of selective breeding, and have been since human beings first settled down and became farmers thousands of years ago. Granting a patent on the results of selective breeding is every bit as corrupt and absurd as granting a patent on human DNA.
I used to have fresh dulse from time to time... I liked it. And will occasionally buy some when I find it in the grocery store. I never thought to fry it up like bacon. Perhaps frying something that is good for you is a bit counterproductive?
...I needed another reason to hate kale.
The translucent red lettuce is people!
SUPERBACON
This is being promoted by Chuck Toombs who is a marketing manager at OSU's college of business.
This stuff tastes like salt.
The only way it might taste like bacon is if you fry it in bacon grease.
The fact that he's made major headlines with it proves how efficient he is at marketing.
I'd definitely try this. The first application should be bacon sushi. Wrap some of the bacon-seaweed around some sticky rice and tempura-bacon-seaweed and serve with wasabi and ginger.
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I guarantee that it will be sold for more than Bacon, even if it costs less to produce. Sometimes the healthy food tax is frustrating.
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One step closer to the ultimate Krabby Patty!
I don't really care if it does. I just want it to taste good. Lots of things that aren't bacon taste good
While that is true, the Uncanny Valley effect apples here as it does in so many other things - the closer something tries to get to tasting like bacon without actually tasting like real bacon, the more disgusting it is because your mind knows what it's trying to taste like, but rejects it wholly.
It would be better if it just tasted delicious in its own way, without any claims to placement in the royal court of the Kingdom of Bacon.
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For the Pig Voluntary Extinction Movement.
Bacon.
Is it kosher?
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
Dulse has been sold commercially as a snack food on the east coast of US and Canada for decades.
What's the definition of "nutritional value" so that this has "twice" as much as kale? The proportion/mass of certain vitamins and minerals is not the whole story. Some foods prevent absorption of certain things like iron or calcium, and just because one or another thing has twice the iron for example doesn't mean it's twice as nutritional.
There is no mention of anything except breeding, which in this case I think means just growing it, over the past 15 years. I'm actually a little dubious that his seaweed is any different at all then the wild stuff, but I'm pretty sure it's not a GMO. I think he's just been growing seaweed to fee his abalone.
Because 'merica cut > all other cuts of bacon.
Bacon or "bacon flavor"? That's a big difference.
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people like bacon because it tastes like human
people who like bacon are really craving for roasted human
bacon is inferior to the real thing
Sea Pig?
It's people. Translucent Red is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. That's why it tastes like bacon - we taste like pork. Next thing, they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them! You tell everybody. Listen to me. Hatcher. You've gotta tell 'em! TRANSLUCENT RED IS PEOPLE! We gotta stop them! Somehow! Listen! Listen to me... PLEASE!!!
Jury's out for me until I can sample it. Might taste like bacon, but I doubt it'll mimic the texture of bacon.
My God, will no one think of the fingerlings?
Used to eat it all the time growing up in New Brunswick. Never knew it was considered a "super food", whatever that really means...
Who knew that it could be genetically altered to taste like bacon when fried...
Soylent green is made from people... dont eat it :)
1. As droughts become more common and severe, the price of meat (which takes a lot more water per calorie than veg) will rise. Alternatively, the animal rights folks will make strides that make factory farming illegal and thus forces all meat to be produced at small, organic/free range farms. Supply goes down, price goes up.
2. Meat substitutes will get tastier and tastier, and as demand increases, production will scale and prices will go down.
I'm a carnivore (and bacon-lover, especially), but I see this as a good thing.
(drooling) WOW wow wow!! Delicious can be healthy now?? mmmmm bacon!!! PLEASE find a healthy substitute for alcohol now!! That would complete my life!
But does it run Linux?
"Uummm, seaweed...."
I like bacon, but I don't think I'd like it if it was green, soggy, and excessively chewy. Octopus tastes like chicken too, but it's like chewing a rubber eraser.
They could have developed nutritious bacon that tastes like seaweed!
fuck particle physics, fuck cancer.
this is what all science everywhere should be doing.
making more things taste like bacon.
the only worthy goal in life.
> When you fry it, which I have done, it tastes like bacon, not seaweed. And it's a pretty strong bacon flavor.
I would like to understand the ethical aspects of this research? Is that Mr. Langdon of Da Vinci fame a coded anti-semite? (Semitic people, like jews, arabs and muslims are religiously banned from bacon, due to commandments the patriarch Abraham receive from above, some 5000 years ago.) It is nasty to tempt them by some shady templar.
The right way to cook Asparagus is to wrap it with bacon and then grill it. Then, throw away the Asparagus and eat the grate. Asparagus is the only thing that I've found which is still disgusting with bacon.
It's big business as usual. They take something simple and good like bacon and ruin the idea with a huge level of processing to make a fake version.
Life is short. Eat real bacon.
Are you advocating for PETA? Or vampires? Or what exactly?
Yeah, too much seaweed might be bad for you. Too much bacon is also bad for you, between the fats and the salt and the nitrates or other curing chemicals and the other dead pig parts that you eat to make up for getting the bacon. You probably shouldn't overdo either one.
Of course, frying the seaweed in cooking fat probably brings it more into balance with bacon's nutrition-to-bad-stuff ratios. And even then, it's probably better for you than those fake bacon bits you get in a shaker bottle.
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Clearly a controversial topic; but being " clear" and to the point, is what we, the consumer, wants to know. Is it GMO? And if it is; as we all know is a topic of controversy, what are the potential "pros and cons". My point is: honest discussion need to surface in order for genetically enhanced foods to gain acceptance. So what's it gonna be " truth or dare".
wake me up when they make a seaweed that tastes like pork jowls