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Meat substitute made from fungus in U.S.
South Bend Tribune ^
| March 3, 2002
Posted on 03/03/2002 1:37:29 PM PST by turk99
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To: turk99
Reminds me of the end line from an old Japaneses Z grade Sci-Fi movie "Attack of the Mushroom People"
And then I ate one !!!!!!!!!!
To: turk99
We been slicing up mushrooms and putting them in our entrees and salads for years. What is the huge advance here?
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To: alloysteel
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To: turk99
It may be "wonderful," but I'm holding out for Soylent Green.
To: tet68
Hogwash! It is,it just looks like dikaryotic Myceleium that hasn't fruited yet. You are so right, most folks don't know that nearly all of a fungus consists of thread like structures growing underground (or in a mixture of soil and manure, in the case of cultivated mushrooms). All mushrooms are what is called the 'fruiting body' of the actual fungus. Most mushrooms are delicious (even the poisonous varieties, which is why you have to be careful when you pick wild mushrooms). They are pure protein, without fat, and have many different flavors.
For those who will not find this appetizing, remember what Bismark said, that if you want to enjoy laws or sausages, you should not watch them being made. If you think fungus eating is unlovely, just watch a film made in a slaughterhouse. Me, I love Prime Rib Roast, smothered in Mushrooms!!
To: turk99
Mix some alga with your fungus and you'll be lichen it.
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03/03/2002 2:15:15 PM PST
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pt17
To: turk99
Fake meat made from fungi...yumm. And it tastes like chicken, huh? Well, we'll just have to get some to smoke on the barbeque along with the 17 turkeys we're doing this year for the race party!
And I can see why the inventors are upset that we confuse FUNGI with MUSHROOMS...there's so much difference between mushrooms and other fungi, after all.
To: matamoros
Yeah, I know. Sure looks cool, tho :)
I'd be willing to try it. My oldest son is deathly allergic to any type of poultry...chicken, turkey, duck, quail, all of it. We get tired of rarely having chicken. This might make us all happy. Of course, he could wind up allergic to microprotein, too.
To: turk99
Tastes like chicken? I've heard that too many times. No thanks.
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
What I personally find unappetizing about fungus burgers it this this:
"The fungus is now grown through fermentation, mixed with egg and flavorings"
LOL...so you don't eat fat, I guess, but you DO get to load up on all those healthy artificial FLAVORINGS!! YUMMY!! (ack...gag)
And what if you're allergic to eggs?
To: turk99
"It has as much to do with mushrooms as you and I have to do with salamanders," said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest. "We all know what a mushroom looks like. This ain't it."His group has complained to the FDA about the label, and says the agency should not have approved mycoprotein without requiring more review of its potential to cause allergic reactions, because it has not been consumed in this country before.
Incredible. These people bitch and bitch about every cuisine there is, saying that this has too many calories, that hasn't enough fiber. Along comes something that sounds like an answer to their harangues, and the first thing they do is bitch some more.
It can only mean one thing. This stuff must taste pretty good.
To: turk99
My recollection (possibly flawed) is that Glucophage, a wondrous drug that helps people (like me) who have Type II Diabetes--was discovered in a fungus.
There's a fungus among us, and I'm glad!
--Boris
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03/03/2002 2:27:26 PM PST
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boris
To: alloysteel
What is the huge advance here?The idea seems to be that this product is being used as a meat substitute, and turned into meat-like dishes, much in the same way as soy protein is. The difference is that fungus, such as mushrooms, is a much better substitute than tofu is.
To: Hugin
"They're herding us like cattle!"
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
03/03/2002 2:27:32 PM PST
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section9
To: turk99
bump
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03/03/2002 2:27:50 PM PST
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VOA
To: cake_crumb
"Fake meat made from fungi" Fungi From Yuggoth.
--Boris
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03/03/2002 2:28:09 PM PST
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boris
To: cake_crumb
And I can see why the inventors are upset that we confuse FUNGI with MUSHROOMS...there's so much difference between mushrooms and other fungi, after all.
Stick with mushrooms. Put milk over dried slices of regular button mushrooms and you'll have a breakfast champignons. (very bad mycological humor :-)
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03/03/2002 2:32:25 PM PST
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pt17
To: cake_crumb
LOL...so you don't eat fat, I guess, but you DO get to load up on all those healthy artificial FLAVORINGS!! YUMMY!! (ack...gag)Unless you do not eat any prepared food at all, nothing frozen, canned, or in a box or bag, just produce and fresh meat (not smoked meat, mind you), then you are eating artificial flavorings, such as spices, and chemicals in every meal. My father was one of the early food technologists, and I know.
And what if you're allergic to eggs?
In that case I would suggest that you don't eat this product! Did you really need me to make this suggestion?
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