Lab-grown burger tasted at event in London, said to require ketchup (Lacks FAT)

Engadget ^ | August 5, 2013 | Sharif Sakr

[PJ-Comix]

A couple of tasters, who claim they're unpaid and impartial, are currently chomping their way through some very expensive artificial flesh at a publicity event in London. According to the BBC's science correspondent Pallab Ghosh, who is also at the gathering, the main feedback so far is that the meat -- which is presented as a burger -- isn't as juicy or tasty as the real thing, mainly because it's totally lean. The substance was created by a team at the University of Maastricht, with funding from none other than Google visionary Sergey Brin. Lead researcher Prof. Mark Post doesn't seem too disheartened by the tasters' comments, but says he's working to improve flavor. At a current cost of $325,000 per patty, people are going to expect something special regardless of the ecological arguments -- and some cajun spices probably won't cut it.

[PJ-Comix]

I just watched this and got suspicious when they wouldn't let anybody in the studio audience taste a sample. Basically the problem is that this lab grown meat lacks fat and also what animals eat gives flavor to the meat. For now it looks like Frankenburgers taste like they came out of a, well, test tube.

[Mr. K]

If they decide to name it “Soylent” DONT BUY IT

[Salgak]

Now with more girls!!!

[fulltlt]

Have Andrew Zimmern try it and report back.

[PJ-Comix]

I guess these scientists haven’t figured out that meat is a sum of what the animal eats. And if nothing has been fed as is the case with lab grown meat, the meat is going to be completely bland.

[PJ-Comix]

I guess these scientists haven’t figured out that meat is a sum of what the animal eats. And if nothing has been fed as is the case with lab grown meat, the meat is going to be completely bland.

[moovova]

I’d go vegan before I’d eat that.

[Huskrrrr]

[mountaineer1997]

I truly hope a suffering free technique to create a meat replacement can be successful.

[hal ogen]

I’d chew off my fingers before I’d eat that.

[PJ-Comix]

Years ago scientists were claiming that reconstituted soy would replace meat and we wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. Yeah, right. In fact, if there is even a bit of soy in my meat, I can tell the difference.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I truly hope a suffering free technique to create a meat replacement can be successful.

I'm thinking, let the cattle be happy, out there, wandering around free on the prairie, eating grass.

And then, when the time is right, when they least expect it...BAM!

Smash 'em with a huge flyswatter from the sky.

[Izzy Dunne]

At a current cost of $325,000 per patty, people are going to expect something special

Yup.

[Izzy Dunne]

Smash 'em with a huge flyswatter from the sky.

No - hunting camp for kids.

[baddog 219]

Is this the same stuff that the Japanese made from fecal material? If it is, call it Ass Burgers...

[Raycpa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLExLUvfqW0

[Buckeye McFrog]

Yeah, right. In fact, if there is even a bit of soy in my meat, I can tell the difference.

Kroger Pro, a hamburger/soy mixture being peddled by our local grocer in the 70's when hamburger prices shot out of sight (another factor in Carter's Misery Index)

[Red Badger]

You are what you eat..........shapeless, tasteless, bland and stupid..............

[hoagy62]

Sounds too darn much like the “meatgrowth” the alien slaves ate in the “Alien Nation” sci-fi book “Day of Descent”.

[Red Badger]

Is this the same stuff that the Japanese made from fecal material? If it is, call it Ass Burgers...

I've heard of that! It's where you take a bite and begin cussing up a storm! It's called Ass Burger's Syndrome!............