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.
PatrickJS said:
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).
MonsterCrit said:
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.