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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."
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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.
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/...
When I fry things in delicious bacon fat, they also taste of bacon.
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.
Summary also says "a new strain". So two things, one that is new and developed, and one that is naturally occurring and centuries old.
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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.
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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So should people with peanut allergies avoid Soylent Green produced in facilities located near mental institutions?
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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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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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As this is just a plant (seaweed), it would be automatically Kosher. I'm assuming that there's no "we inserted X genes from pigs into the seaweed" trickery involved to make Orthodox Jews think twice. From what I've read, this is something that's been in use for awhile outside of America and might be introduced here because they realized that it tastes like bacon when fried.
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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!!!
"Superfood" is a marketing term that means "we are really trying to push this food product"
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.