Um.

[hummingwolf]

"Eat your heart out, Dracula - scientists turn blood into biscuits and chocolate."

I'm guessing that the "chocolate" tastes about as much like chocolate as carob does--i.e. it's brown and it's sweet and the only people who think it tastes like chocolate are people who don't like dark chocolate. But it is interesting to see the lengths food scientists will go to in order to turn waste products into something people will buy.

Pardon me, I'm going to go eat a cantaloupe made up of recognizable cantaloupe parts now.

Comments

Trying. . .

[mystified13.livejournal.com]

'People should not be apprehensive. When you eat meat, there is blood in that.'

Well, that sounds a bit too much like a rationalization to me. . . Maybe someone could feed me the stuff and not tell me what it was. . .

Re: Trying. . .

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I suspect that most people would rather not know what they're already eating on a regular basis. But if blood-based food becomes common, you can at least be sure that it won't have the "Kosher" labels on it.

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

reminded of the charlton heston movie
"soylent green" where in an overcrowded world
people were recycled into food.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Soylent Green is people! I've never seen that movie, but I know that line anyway!

Sounds like they're interested in using discarded animal blood for these foods, rather than human blood. That makes sense, considering there's a shortage of healthy human blood and an abundance of animal blood.

Still, I prefer my chocolate to be real chocolate.

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

I would have no objection to having
an "animal blood confection" on sale
on a separate shelf from the chocolate
and so labled. I think a further point
in our country at least would be that
it certainly is so far from kosher as
to require some further labeling for even
those Jewish people who dont look for
"kosher chocolate" etc.
+Seraphim.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes, there would need to be clear labeling for semi-observant Jews, I would think. But I was telling a friend that if they began selling special blood-based Twinkies with no fanfare, it could be weeks before anyone noticed. I mean, it's not as if Twinkies are based on real food to begin with, is it?

[iswari.livejournal.com]

You know, I've sometimes wondered if I would like carob if so many people hadn't told me before I tried it that it tastes like chocolate!

It soooo does *not* taste like chocolate... ;-P

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I know! Carob really isn't a bad flavor if you take it for what it is, but its flavor resembles chocolate about as much as butterscotch flavor does. Convincing people to substitute carob for chocolate really is a cruel trick.

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

Bah! That's nothing new. The Catholic Church has 'em beat by twenty centuries!


Okay, the chocolate is new.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Heh. The Catholic Church kinda believes in the reverse procedure, don't they? Not turning blood into food, but turning food (or wine) into blood?

I wonder if the fruit in the garden of Eden could have been related to the cocoa bean in some way.

[darth-spacey.livejournal.com]

There's some speculation in the certain quarters that the Tree Of The Knowledge Of Good And Evil was originally inspired by the Iboga tree, source of the powerful drug ibogaine, said to give you tremendous amount of moral clarity about the good and evil things you've done in your life. It has been used with some success by psychiatrists.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Eenteresting. I hadn't heard of that one before (or if I did, it slipped my mind). Thanks, Darth!