Post by omegalogos on Oct 3, 2015 18:46:42 GMT -6
Explanation: So its sunday morning in Oz where I am and somebody mentions pizza in shoutbox and I realize everyone is asleep or in church and that not even Dominos would be open!
So I realize I should probably go get me a 3d food printer that can print pizza's [I'm self trained architect and 21st century kitchens interest me]...
www.theverge.com/2014/1/24/5342180/watch-this-3d-printer-make-pizza-fit-for-astronauts
And I realize that the printed food needs to be in a slurry format and that makes printing meat hard and I remembered something on tv from a decade ago about the Japanese using very large mushroom stalks as fake steaks and that made me go look up mock meats [ I have also had the Alice in wonderland words of mock turtle soup swimming through my head the past week] and I wish I hadn't now and here is why ....
WTFH is tofurkey?
On Moving Toward Vegetarianism: Mock Meat [treehugger.com]
I admit to being very confused about mock meat. I don't understand why anyone who has decided not to eat meat would want to eat something that is shaped like meat, or made to approximate the taste and texture of it. When I see those packages of fake bacon or fake hot dogs in the grocery store, I can't imagine ever putting that stuff in my mouth. I suppose there is a place at Thanksgiving for tofurky because of the cultural emphasis on the turkey, but otherwise my credulity is strained.Why do restaurants have menu items like "Pork" Ribs or "Chicken" Salad. Those quotation marks always make me nervous. Is it seitan, tempeh, tofu? I'd like to know. Wouldn't it make more sense to say Tofu in a Tangy Barbeque Sauce or Chickpea Salad? Isn't this just perpetuating the myth that vegetarians secretly want to eat meat? When I looked up mock meat on the internet, I found a site with recipes such as "Beef" Stroganoff, described as "a creamy sauce with mushrooms and chunks of mock meat". I don't know about you but the term chunks of mock meat doesn't do anything for my salivary glands. I just don't see the point of eating one thing and pretending it is another.
Well the 3d food printer was called for by NASA for feeding people in space and its really hard to take care of animals and their waste up in space and so people make do ... Vegetarianism.
www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/stories/10-tasty-ways-to-enjoy-fake-meat
Personal Disclosure: I was going to post this in cooking, rants or in the jokes forum but I chose self help and mental health issues as this thread gives an insight to how my mind works, how vegetarians minds work, implicitly offers self help with feeding oneself in space and or on a Sunday without Domino's, and shows I am completely insane because I strangely think we can print solid fungus forms that have the taste and texture of meat and that leaves me somewhere stuck in the uncanny valley with my views.
Awkward!
Meat from poop in a vat is just a place I don't want to have to sell to my fellow space colonists.
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