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Healthy Pork? Pinach? 28

Posted by michael from the other-green-meat dept.
L-Wave writes: "Just when you thought goats with spider genes was weird... Here is a story on Yahoo about scientists breeding pigs with spinach genes! Who thought getting a pork and spinach calzone could be so easy!"
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  • From the article: Iritani said their meat would be ``more healthy'' than normal pork although it was too early to say whether it could be considered as healthy as spinach..
    Too bad "more healthy" is synonymous with "much worse tasting." Can you imagine spinach and pork mixed together? Yuck.

    Brandon Tallent
    • When I eat I always separate my food into individual places. My pototoes are always separated from the stuffing which is also separate from the turkey. If I was faced with this kind of food, I don't know if I could even begin to eat.
    • Can you imagine spinach and pork mixed together?

      Yes, I can, and it's quite good. I don't have my father's recipe, but I found one here [meierswinecellars.com] which looks tasty.

      The problem I see is of course the fact that pork and spinach recipes work because their tastes are married; that is, they are separate and then blend. I fear that this may taste like a half-pork half-spinach culinary disaster, like a soup that was put in the blender rather than simmered for hours.

      (yes, I know the resultant pig won't actually taste like spinach--whether it tastes like pork will be another matter--but will only make the goyim super-strong, like Popeye).

    • Field cuisine: take foods X and Y which are supposed to be stored separate but served together, eat half a mouthful of each, and mix in your mouth. I hear it works well for coffee (powdered grounds + hot water)...
  • This is one of those times where we have to ask "Is humanity really ready for a pork and spincah clazone?"
  • The first thing it makes me think about is Super Pigs.

    At least it worked for Popeye.
  • Wake me up when they figure out a way to grow strips of freshly fried bacon like spinach. Mmmm, bacon.
  • Spinach-enhanced pork will taste so bad, they'll have to do a new Popeye propaganda campaign to promote it among kids. However, this time it'll be a Popeye clone, with some of Brutus' genes thrown into the mix. What we'll have will be a bigger bearded Popeye that will rescue Olivia and then will hit her.



    (and as long as they're at it, they put a woman that's both intelligent and good-looking to replace Olivia, who lacks BOTH traits)

  • hmm, where else will this trend lead us? We already have green ketchup [heinz.com] and artificially colored margarine-spread [packagingdigest.com].
    How about some mix & match taste sensations!
    Liver & Onions Cereal (the kids love it!)
    Cod Cheeks & Brussel Sprouts (building health bones and halitosis)
    Chicken Nuggets & Scrambled Eggs (Free Salmonella Inside)

    the possibilities are endless... (and nauseating!)

    • Re:other taste sensation brough to you by GeneCorp (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      We already have green ketchup [heinz.com] and artificially colored margarine-spread [packagingdigest.com].

      Hate to break it to you, but all margarine is artificially colored. (Well, if it is yellowish.) Take oil and partially hydrogenate it (i.e. make margarine) and you will get a white-ish/tan-ish product. The Margarine companies then add yellow food coloring to make it look more like butter.

      Many years ago, some states (such as Wisconsin) had laws banning the sale of artificially colored margarine. (In Wisc. it was to protect the dairy industry.) So margarine was sold as a white mass with a small packet of yellow food coloring on the side which had to be mixed in to get a visually appealing product. (Wisc. has since rescinded that law.)

      • I'm actually aware that in some areas, and at some times, margarine was un-colored. My mother and grandmother have mentioned in stories of mixing the yellow coloring packets into the stuff. And I remember signage in some of the corner cafe's in Brooklyn where I ate durring college there was signage regarding how everything served was real butter, and it mentioned the legal statue that governed this.
        I however was going for the simpler connotation, but you do bring to light a signifcant flaw to the metaphor.
        Thanks for reading.

  • Hmm (Score:1)

    by xinu ( 64069 )
    Is it just me or does it seem that scientists have lost sight of what they are trying to accomplish. I can see the conversations now:

    "Lets splice grow a dog with cat genes in it and see what happens... yeah, that would be cool. Then after lets put a turtle and a rabbit genes together..."

    Bunch of kids playin around with gene splicing, wtf...

  • Uh oh.. look out for the tomeato! But seriously, is the world really in need of more spinach? You'd think all the piles you were forced to eat as a kid would have had an effect!
  • Of SPAM would this produce? As if regular spam weren't bad enough.
  • This story wholly lacked the panache that I was led to expect by the mispelled title. Although, it did suggest that the panache was questionable...
  • this should be in the spam [slashdot.org] category

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