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28 March 2006

Meat Tube! Coming to a coffee maker sized appliance near you.
mmmmmmmm tube steak...

post by: arse_hat at: 00:19 | 17 comments

Fucking finally.

posted by baby_balrog 28 March | 00:20

What will vegans say?

posted by arse_hat 28 March | 00:23

This vegan says "what a hilarious hoax".

posted by cmonkey 28 March | 00:48

I doubt it's a hoax as hospitals have been growing human skin for grafts for more than a decade. A number of years ago they were able to grow mouse parts for transplant. So how hard can it be to grow "meat"?

posted by arse_hat 28 March | 00:53

This is almost as gripping as the debate of the pro spoon-guard and anti-spoon guard factions!

posted by pieisexactlythree 28 March | 01:10

I'm guessing that if it wasn't a hoax, Google would have more than four results for it.

And the photo on the flyer is so totally photoshopped.

posted by cmonkey 28 March | 01:12

Shut up pie! What do you deserts know of meat? hmmm?

posted by arse_hat 28 March | 01:14

*cock-slaps arse_hat with meat tube*

posted by pieisexactlythree 28 March | 01:15

Well OK, you pie folks DO know tourtiere.

posted by arse_hat 28 March | 01:16

cmonkey, searching "Henk Haagsman" or "In vitro meat" gets lots of returns, and there's a wiki article.

The story I want to hear, though, is who are these people with enough money to make a serious funding offer who want to eat themselves?

posted by taz 28 March | 02:23

Home chefs could make meat in a countertop device the size of a coffee maker. Before bed, throw starter cells and a package of growth medium into the meat maker and wake up to harvest fresh sausage for breakfast.

Yeah right, file under jetpacks, personal nuclear generators, and affordable everyday spaceflight.

Growing a test-tube steak or pork roast will be more challenging, said Henk Haagsman, professor of meat sciences at the University of Utrecht.

How cool would it be to meet someone in a bar and be able to say, "Why yes, I am a professor of meat science."

posted by Rhomboid 28 March | 04:03

I read where they've just spliced C. elegans genes into a pig in order to create an omega-3-fatty-acid-enriched pig. That's right, your pork is part worm.

Anyone remember the "sligs" from "Heretics of Dune"? Part slugs, part pig, ALL DELICIOUS.

Man. Now I want to simmer me down some Meat Tube Bourguignon.

posted by ikkyu2 28 March | 05:04

Yikes! Makes me wonder if the "Meat Creation" sticker at the supermarket wasn't just goofy Japanese English sloganism...

posted by MightyNez 28 March | 05:29

This is powered by cold fusion, right?

posted by warbaby 28 March | 06:14

Anybody read "Oryx and Crake?" This is a lot like that (which is a lot like "Brave New World" and less lots like "1984").

posted by LunaticFringe 28 March | 08:39

I was working in the dining hall at RIT in the 70s when Sizzlean (Move over bacon!) was first introduced. Little did I know I was witnessing the dawn of the manufactured meat era.