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Researchers Discover Seaweed that Tastes like Bacon
Business Insider ^ | July 16, 2015 | Barbara Tasch

Posted on 07/26/2015 9:22:41 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

Researchers at Oregon State have patented a new strain of seaweed that tastes like bacon when it's cooked.

The seaweed, a form of red marine algae, looks like translucent red lettuce. It also has twice the nutritional value of kale and grows very quickly. Did we mention it tastes like bacon?

According to Oregon State researcher Chris Langdon, his team started growing the new strain while trying to find a good food source for edible sea snails, or abalone, a very popular food in many parts of Asia. The strain is a new type of red algae that normally grows along the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines.

But Langdon realized he had his hands on something with a lot more potential when his colleague Chuck Toombs visited his office and caught a glimpse of the growing seaweed. Toombs said he thought the bacon-seaweed had "the potential for a new industry for Oregon," he told Oregon State in a press release.

Toombs then began working with the university's Food Innovation Center, which created a range of foods with the seaweed as its main ingredient.

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To: Signalman

What if you do not like pork?


21 posted on 07/26/2015 9:45:29 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I’m wrong...It is bacon flavored on its own...but it sounds like you have to cook it to get the flavor. Anyways...Death by bacon doesn’t sound so bad.


22 posted on 07/26/2015 9:45:31 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I save my drippings, too.

I saw a chef add it to a Caesar Salad dressing.

23 posted on 07/26/2015 9:47:17 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

How can they patent something that grows in the wild?


24 posted on 07/26/2015 9:47:44 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Political Correctness is Supression of Free Speech. Thank the Commies for Political Correctness.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Good. Now send it to ROP countries.


25 posted on 07/26/2015 9:53:11 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
(She died of non-bacon related natural causes.)

My aunt had a similar diet with a lot of bacon drippings,butter, cornbread, and turnip greens. It finally got her though--died about a month short of her 102nd birthday.

26 posted on 07/26/2015 9:54:27 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: DeFault User

Yep. It’s always SOMETHING! :)


27 posted on 07/26/2015 9:55:26 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

My mother did that, too. Southern cooking habit. One of the more amazingly decadent things she’d make was cheese grits fried in squares in bacon fat. Baconlicious!!! : )


28 posted on 07/26/2015 10:05:54 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I miss the days when everything tasted like chicken.


29 posted on 07/26/2015 10:33:19 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America Matters!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Bacon is good


30 posted on 07/26/2015 10:42:41 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

31 posted on 07/26/2015 10:43:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
1) Press Button

2) Receive Seaweed

32 posted on 07/26/2015 10:47:01 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Somehow, a Seaweed, Lettuce and Tomato Sammich just doesn’t sound as appealing.


33 posted on 07/26/2015 10:49:50 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Sacajaweau

How about: “Give me liberty, or give me...death by bacon!
Or: “Oh, death by bacon where is thy sting?”


34 posted on 07/26/2015 12:26:09 PM PDT by Wheelman81
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