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A Food Fight Over a Fungus - (Soylent Green or Quorn-flakes?)
Los Angeles Times ^
| March 12, 2004
| Rosie Mestel - Times Staff Writer
Posted on 03/12/2004 11:13:40 AM PST by UnklGene
A Food Fight Over a Fungus - (Soylent-Green or Quorn-Flakes?)
Rosie Mestel - Times Staff Writer
Quorn, a substitute for meat, has been eaten by millions in Europe, but a U.S. activist says the 'odious' product is literally sickening.
STOKESLEY, England Refrigerated trucks trundle down the pretty country lanes laden with pale, doughy masses of fungus 32 tons or more a day.
"Pure mycoprotein good enough to eat, won't taste of anything, very bland," declares manufacturing manager Pete Willis, tearing off a golf-ball-sized sample from a 2,000-pound glob.
Workers in white boots shepherd the fungal paste through a sea of vats and clanking machines that mix, press, slice and dice the raw dough.
What comes out at the end is a matter of perspective luscious artificial meat patties that taste just like moist chicken, or dangerous vat-grown "vomit-burgers" that are sickening consumers from coast to coast.
The product is "Quorn," a fungus-based meat substitute that millions of Europeans have eaten for years. It entered the U.S. market in 2002 to rave reviews by consumers, but was quickly met with a dogged anti-Quorn campaign by an influential consumer group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest...excerpt
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:13:41 AM PST
by
UnklGene
To: UnklGene
"Tastes just like chicken" bump!
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:26:55 AM PST
by
Luke Skyfreeper
(Michael <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/index_real.php">miserable failure</a>Moore)
To: UnklGene
Years ago I read that the largest living organism is a fungus growing somewhere in the northern U.S.
I vaguely recall that it grows just under the surface in a forest and covers hundreds of square miles.
Maybe it taste like chicken.
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:36:25 AM PST
by
bayourod
( Kerry's 1st wife: $250M; 2nd wife: $700M; Mistress: priceless.)
To: Luke Skyfreeper
The Brits have a history of 'quorn like' behavior.
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:37:01 AM PST
by
cyborg
(In die begin het God die hemel en die aarde geskape.)
To: bayourod
There was a X Files episode about that big fungus.
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:38:04 AM PST
by
cyborg
(In die begin het God die hemel en die aarde geskape.)
To: bayourod
"Years ago I read that the largest living organism is a fungus growing somewhere in the northern U.S."
Northeast U.S. to be precise, called Liberal Democrats.
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:39:39 AM PST
by
moonman
To: cyborg
Is this quorn stuff much differrent than the Aussies vegemite?
To: UnklGene
Haven't tried it yet...
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:42:12 AM PST
by
null and void
( If Terrorism is a law enforcement issue, Kerry is "soft on crime".)
To: Fierce Allegiance
I would think so. Vegemite definitely doesn't 'taste just like chicken'.
Think of congealed Guinness...
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:43:48 AM PST
by
null and void
( If Terrorism is a law enforcement issue, Kerry is "soft on crime".)
To: bayourod
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:45:44 AM PST
by
Eala
(Sacrificing tagline fame for... TRAD ANGLICAN RESOURCE PAGE: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican)
To: Fierce Allegiance
I don't think so, not the way it's made anyway. Vegemite and marmite are made from yeast and quorn is from fungus. It's just strange how they figured out a fungus would make a great meal replacement *lol*
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:48:55 AM PST
by
cyborg
(In die begin het God die hemel en die aarde geskape.)
To: cyborg
Like a portobello mushroom is used as a meat substitute?
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:50:54 AM PST
by
null and void
( If Terrorism is a law enforcement issue, Kerry is "soft on crime".)
To: UnklGene
If you're going to excerpt could at least give a link to the article?
13
posted on
03/12/2004 11:51:24 AM PST
by
Rudder
To: null and void
Yep like they have in veggie burgers... I sell meat substitutes but never had quorn so now I'm curious.
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:55:22 AM PST
by
cyborg
(In die begin het God die hemel en die aarde geskape.)
To: UnklGene
Soylent Green on the Conveyor line
It's people you know.......
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:56:02 AM PST
by
bert
(Have you offended a liberal today?)
To: UnklGene
Hmm...what other foods are fungus-based? Let's see...mushrooms of all kinds, and truffles. While rather tasteless, I suspect that this fungus product is safe to eat and can probably be flavored at will. I'd rather that than tofu, thank you.
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:58:45 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: bayourod
The original Homongous Fungus was in Michigan.
Later researchers declared it was not really the largest biomass. That distinction went to an aspen grove they were studying. All trees in a grove are part of the same plant.
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:58:57 AM PST
by
bert
(Have you offended a liberal today?)
To: MineralMan
what other foods are fungus-based
Also Toe Jam I think
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posted on
03/12/2004 12:00:18 PM PST
by
bert
(Have you offended a liberal today?)
To: cyborg
My wife eats that crap. Nasty.
To: UnklGene; always paddle your own canoe
Actually, I have had both the "chicken" and "burger", and I must say they weren't that bad, the taste and texture was fairly good.
When I first read about it here on FR, I said I would never try it, but when I got the chance to give my opinion about it I changed my mind and got over my doubts about it.
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posted on
03/12/2004 12:03:49 PM PST
by
CARDINALRULES
(Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out.)
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