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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What if you do not like pork?
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.
I saw a chef add it to a Caesar Salad dressing.
How can they patent something that grows in the wild?
Good. Now send it to ROP countries.
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.
Yep. It’s always SOMETHING! :)
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!!! : )
I miss the days when everything tasted like chicken.
Bacon is good
2) Receive Seaweed
Somehow, a Seaweed, Lettuce and Tomato Sammich just doesn’t sound as appealing.
How about: “Give me liberty, or give me...death by bacon!
Or: “Oh, death by bacon where is thy sting?”
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