# My alma mater has developed seaweed that tastes like bacon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341 "2015-07-16T17:42:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/21 "2015-07-17T19:09:05Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > What about mouth feel? This article mentions that it can be fried, so maybe it gets crispy. > **[New Seaweed Tastes Just Like Bacon When Fried](https://www.iflscience.com/engineered-nutricious-and-delicious-algae-tastes-bacon-29483)** > > New Seaweed Tastes Just Like Bacon When Fried Even if it doesn’t have the same mouth feel I would think that it could be mixed with things like hamburger or added to soups. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/22 "2015-07-17T21:21:36Z")
> [@susan](#): > > I suppose it would be too confusing to call it “Beaver Bacon.” The other pink meat? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/23 "2015-07-17T21:45:43Z")
And if you leave bacon in the fridge long enough, it tastes like seaweed. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/24 "2015-07-17T22:38:33Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Because there’s only one thing that tastes like bacon and that’s bacon. ETA: wow, scooped by less than a minute! Two things: bacon, and bacon salt. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/25 "2015-07-17T22:45:27Z")
Actually, you probably could make a passable vegetarian sloppy joe, using TVP. The texture of TVP is very similar to that of crumbled ground beef, and a sloppy joe gets most of its flavor from the sauce, not from the meat. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/26 "2015-07-18T00:41:10Z")
who cares what it’s made of - BACON! (when’s the IPO) ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/27 "2015-07-18T01:41:40Z")
Wasn’t this a plot point from the beginning of one of Michael Crichton’s lesser novels? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/28 "2015-07-18T06:48:07Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Actually, you probably could make a passable vegetarian sloppy joe, using TVP. The texture of TVP is very similar to that of crumbled ground beef, and a sloppy joe gets most of its flavor from the sauce, not from the meat. The key word is “passable”. In other words, “if I can’t have meat, I suppose this will do”. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/29 "2015-07-18T07:14:41Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > I just had some vegan friends do that with their vegan sloppy joes at a party a few days ago. Umm…no. If you wanted to call it sloppy risotto masala, then I’d be ok with it, but sloppy joe it was not. I’m given to understand that veggie burgers taste pretty good, but not like beef burgers. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/30 "2015-07-18T14:45:20Z")
Put it this way: The first time I had TVP spaghetti sauce, the only way I could tell that it wasn’t ground beef was from the fact that it was being served and also eaten by someone I knew to be a vegetarian. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/31 "2015-07-18T15:25:31Z")
So when are you going to get us free samples and host a SDMB tasting event? 😃 **Max the Immortal** – I was a vegetarian for about ten years, and still really like veggie burgers. They aren’t meat, no, but they’re tasty. (I even got my meat-and-potatoes dad to eat a taco that I had made with crumbled veggie burgers. He said it was more like pork than beef, but good.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/32 "2015-07-18T17:17:55Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > I’m given to understand that veggie burgers taste pretty good, but not like beef burgers. Yes, many vegetarian burger-analogues are quite tasty. (But I prefer deadcow, myself.) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/33 "2015-07-18T17:21:46Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Great news for the Muslim community! > [@Sherrerd](#): > > Not to mention for our porcine friends. Free the even-toed ungulates! And don’t forget Jews and vegetarians! My Sammich O’Death (toasted, buttered salt bagel with (veggie) bacon) just got better! ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341/34 "2015-07-18T18:53:41Z")
I’m predicting that Lisa Simpson will sneak this into Homer’s diet on an upcoming episode of **The Simpsons**. Homer: “Sea…weed…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-alma-mater-has-developed-seaweed-that-tastes-like-bacon/725341.md?page=1)