Meat substitute made from fungus in U.S.

South Bend Tribune ^ | March 3, 2002

[Ditter]

Did I not say I read labels & have learned what is bad for me & how to avoid it?

[chainsaw]

No, old democrats are scum--not fungus.

My mistake - for a while this had me going.

[Rosebud Dairy]

http://www.quorn.com/us/index.htm Marketing whizzes, I tell ya!

[martin_fierro]

Man, that looks like it needs a LOT of A-1 sauce. <|:)~

[mrs slocombe]

No kidding!!!

Are you really the national hero of Argentina?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Did I not say I read labels & have learned what is bad for me & how to avoid it?

Yes, while I did not say so explicitly, I was agreeing with you. Others seemed to be taking the PC position against food technology. They seem to want to get rid of the 6 billion or so people in this world who could not survive using the agricultural techniques, and food handling processes of 300 odd years ago.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Man, that looks like it needs a LOT of A-1 sauce. <|:)~

The original poster claimed that this dish was skate, presumably the close relative of the shark known as the skate. Much as I love A-1, I wouldn't use it on a shark steak, nor likely on skate (should I ever be served this dish).

[Don Joe]

"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."

You might want to try some "sulphur shelf" mushroom, AKA "chicken mushroom" (not to be confused with "hen of the woods"). It has the same look and texture as chicken meat, will have the same flavor if cooked with broth.

BTW, I've heard that there's been a meat substitute made of shiitake stems for some time, used in Japan.

[Don Joe]

"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."

Yup. The most offensive part was their call for goverment regulation (with prohibition implicit, unless/until approved), "because it has not been consumed in this country before".

UFB!

Can't eat some food because it hasn't been eaten here before? WTF!!!

Argh, there goes my blood pressure for the night!

[aculeus]

At ease, disease. There's fungus among us.

[Don Joe]

"Stick with mushrooms. Put milk over dried slices of regular button mushrooms and you'll have a breakfast champignons. (very bad mycological humor :-)"

Let me guess -- it came to you while cruising down The Bisporus?

[martin_fierro]

Are you really the national hero of Argentina?

Yup. I'm the only one left with $10 in his bombachas (gaucho pants).

[Ditter]

Oh sorry it seemed to me that you thought I wanted food chemicals banned. The main problem I have now is eating at other peoples houses because if they don't have trouble with msg they haven't a clue that its in there. I wouldn't mind if they banned msg, it would simplify my life.

[Don Joe]

"Personally, I like beefsteaks, shaggy manes, morels and puffballs."

I'll top that. I like "ripe" shaggy manes (so long as they're not maggoty, of course), with the gills starting to drip black ink. Mmmmmmmm, do they cook up a fantastic black gravy with steak!

Don't really go for puffballs, though. Taste like scorched rubber to me. Or at least how I'd think it would taste.

My favorites are lepista nuda, hypsizigus tessulatus, and marasmius oreades (as well as morels, and the old reliable a. campestris of course, which always seem bigger and tastier in the wild then their domesticated bisporus counterparts).

[Don Joe]

PS: WRT "beefsteak mushrooms", I hope you'e talking about the shelf fungus variety (fistulina hepatica?) rather than the false morel (a type of gyromitra?), which has a toxin (hydrazine, a rocket fuel) which has a cumulative effect in your body. Many people eat them regularly, laughing at the warnings. Many people also drop dead "unexpectedly" after eating them "safely" for years.

Sorry about the ?'s, I'm not real up on the latin names for those.

[mrs slocombe]

Are you really the national hero of Argentina?
Yup. I'm the only one left with $10 in his bombachas (gaucho pants).

Espero que no sos un pobre gaucho con solo $10 en sus bombachas!

Su verdadera amiga,
mrs slocombe

[Don Joe]

"I'm waiting for SOMA!"

Would you settle for sarx?

[Don Joe]

"I'm waiting for SOMA!"

Would you settle for sarx?

[Don Joe]

These are deadly in the extreme and have often been used in assassinations. Bringing on terrible symptoms only after several hours have passed, muscle spasms which can break bones and finally liver failure.

The initial violent symptoms subside, and the victim "recovers", but then his liver begins to methodically kill him over the course of a couple of days, in a slow, gruesome, painfull manner.