Scientists Create Bacon-Flavored Seaweed - Who Wants a Bite?

[Silverbane7]

the article said they fried the seaweed and it tasted crisp and bacon-like so there is that.
it also looks like thinly sliced ham or parma ham sort of (in the pic)

im also happy to see something more healty, tasting better. im partial to the nori myself (home-made sushi fanatic) but its often hard to add it to things. and seaweed can be grown in the largest foodstore we have, the oceans (even if its just on the edges of the coastlines, its going to be much more room i think than all the currently fertile areas of land. especialy as the current quantity over quality farming style that took over after ww2 has depleated a lot of the lands natural goodness.)

its vegi and vegan so everyone can get the hell off our backs for noshing it too.
tho to be honest..im still waiting for the Slig to be created.....tho pigs still do a great waste disposal service allready (when they are allowed....slops good if you just seperate out the meat from the rest imho, we need to go back to making quality slop for the pigs from schools and restaurants so we can stop wasting quality soya on them and start wasting the soya on foodstuffs)a Slig is better lol

 

[Jacked Assassin]

I don't know what to make of this.

For me in order for it to taste like real bacon it would also have visible pork fat attached to it. But if it has 0 trans fats & 0 saturated fats I'd be willing to try seaweed even if it wasn't bacon flavored.

A little off-topic but veggie burgers don't taste like actual burgers. But that doesn't matter much for me as I prefer chicken instead of burgers any day.

 

[Dalek Caan]

Taste delicious, looks like entrails.

So far in my experience nothing that has been advertised to taste like something else has ever worked. So I won't be trying this any time soon.

 

[MonsterCrit]

Uhm ... big whoop. Science has been adding bacon flavour to stuff for decades already. Sort of irrelevant. We long reached the point where food chemists can make anything taste like anything else. Little. 80% of all blueberries in foods are not blueberries. Same for apple, pumpkin spice, etc. It's just chemicals that they douse one whatever.

 

[direkiller]

This is very good. something that tastes good and is healthy. maybe we can finally start getting rid of the problem that "if you want to eat healthy you have to condemn yourself to a life of shit tastes".

I don't think this will go over too well
typicly people who eat seaweed on a regular basis are also anit-GMO.
Even if this is non-gmo. It will still likely be seen as a franken food.

Anti-GMO people are pretty much an insignificant minority, though.

there is enough of them to have GMO's banned across parts of Europe, and a stable market of non-gmo labeled food where it is not.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

And that day, billions unknowingly awoke to a reality that was ever so slightly closer to the world of BioShock in more ways than one. And it was delicious.

Bacon seems to have become the culinary equivalent of zombies in video games - it's the punchline to every joke [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/132771-Oscar-Mayer-Creates-Bacon-Scented-iPhone-Alarm-Clock]; it's the signature ingredient in every dish.

And it's gotten to a point where even commercials for things that actually have bacon in them are making fun of it. There was that one for the bacon-stuffed-crust pizza where the guy said "I know you love bacon, because you're the Internet", and just the other day I saw a couple Taco Bell ones that started out as fake ads for products made to look like they're made of bacon (something I see plenty of on This Is Why I'm Broke).

Uhm ... big whoop. Science has been adding bacon flavour to stuff for decades already. Sort of irrelevant. We long reached the point where food chemists can make anything taste like anything else. Little. 80% of all blueberries in foods are not blueberries. Same for apple, pumpkin spice, etc. It's just chemicals that they douse one whatever.

I think the difference this time is that there's no artificial flavor involved; it literally grows already tasting like bacon. That's a pretty big step forward in... genetic engineering, I guess? I mean, it's one thing to make one kind of meat taste like another, or make an animal that's made out of another animal's meat (mmm... beefpigs), but this is a freaking plant. The article's not clear whether they did this on purpose or not, but either way it's impressive.

 

[DementedSheep]

Its not real bacon. Its NOT real bacon. ITS NOT REAL BACON!!!!!! ITS NOT REAL BAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNN!!!!

Sorry sorry... I'm a baconist and believe that unless its actual bacon (with minor exceptions like chips) it shouldn't taste like bacon. Bacon is reserved solely for those who eat pork, who love the taste of artery hardening goodness.
Sorry vegans/vegetarians, if you don't like meat you shouldn't eat products that resemble or taste like it, its hypocritical.
Signed,
Imperatorex Caprae, Baconist and self-admitted meatasaurus.

How exactly is a vegetarian eating something similar in taste to meat hypocritical? There is no conflict unless they are vegetarian because they do not think anyone should like the taste of meat.

 

[Someone Depressing]

that sounds disgusting and revolting how dare you make me think about eating seaweed

So, they're basically soggy streaks of seaweed that taste like meat? ...That's, nice.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Hey, if it tastes good enough, I'm all for it. Speaking as another meat-lover.

HOWEVER, I don't think it's going to taste good enough so... Yeah.

 

[zumbledum]

i fundamentally disagree with vegetarianism. and this whole meat flavoured stuff is just plain wrong in my book, you want bacon man up and murder a pig. its good for the perspective.

and there is no way its going to taste right.

 

[Strazdas]

This is very good. something that tastes good and is healthy. maybe we can finally start getting rid of the problem that "if you want to eat healthy you have to condemn yourself to a life of shit tastes".

I don't think this will go over too well
typicly people who eat seaweed on a regular basis are also anit-GMO.
Even if this is non-gmo. It will still likely be seen as a franken food.

Anti-GMO people are pretty much an insignificant minority, though.

there is enough of them to have GMO's banned across parts of Europe, and a stable market of non-gmo labeled food where it is not.

Sorry for late response, apparently some mod thought i was rude (appeal still pending).

Europe didnt ban GMO food, it only banned some types of modifications that are either dangerous or their effects are not yet researched enough.

I have no problem with there being a market for non-GMO food (though that in itself is a joke here considering that much of food there is in fact GMO) in the same way i got no problem with there being vegetarian restaurants. as long as it does not stop me from eating GMO food they can eat what they want.

 

[direkiller]

Europe didnt ban GMO food, it only banned some types of modifications that are either dangerous or their effects are not yet researched enough.

Never said Europe as a whole banned GM foods. Individual countries in the EU did.

Italy, Austria, Greece, & Spain have bans or mortorums in place on all GM food.

and most have bans on GM maze and/or canola.

 

[Strazdas]

Europe didnt ban GMO food, it only banned some types of modifications that are either dangerous or their effects are not yet researched enough.

Never said Europe as a whole banned GM foods. Individual countries in the EU did.

Italy, Austria, Greece, & Spain have bans or mortorums in place on all GM food.

and most have bans on GM maze and/or canola.

Austria is weird. take that from somone that lived there for a while. they are crazy about privacy to the point that they banned google street view, and whole lot of other things. they constantly contest EU regulations in court. And yes, italy, greece and Spain did ban some food, mostly as a way to boost locally grown food sales without breaking EU agreements that ban import discrimination.

They didnt ban GM foods as a whole though. that would be impractical and very hard to believe. They would have to get rid of things such as carrots, apples, pears, tomatoes and a whole range of other vegetables.

 

[The Ditz]

As someone who has been vegetarian for 20 because of the unsustainably wasteful/ cruel/ unsanitary conditions of factory farming (well actually started because I heard lamb and the idea of killing a baby sheep was too much for me... also meat reminds me of human corpses ,and humans are gross... but, the reason I said at the beginning makes me sound noble as apposed to neurotic ) ,

I think this is a step in the right direction, as the population grows, factory farms will be less and less feasible.

A future of bacon flavored seaweed is better than one where we eat soilent green or have the whole world smelling like a factory farm because we just had to be carnivorous traditionalists.