Scientists breed bacon-flavored red algae!

[Senegoid]

Christian Science Monitor headline asks: “What took them so long?”

Bacon-flavored seaweed is the new kale. Yes, really.

Scientists are currently cultivating a marine plant that’s packed with more nutrients than the trendy green superfood kale. And it naturally tastes like bacon.

Currently the wild version is harvested and fetches about $90 a pound. They are working on developing the domesticated bacon-flavored version into a hydroponic crop that can be grown much more economically than that.

[Ethilrist]

Soylent Bacon?

[CalMeacham]

Sad to say, there are already two other threads on this topic:

My alma mater has developed seaweed that tastes like bacon

And I have to repeat my suggested advertising line for it:

“Dulse – People don’t know it’s not bacon.”

“IT’S BACONNNNNNN!”

[Senegoid]

@CalMeacham

Sad to say, there are already two other threads on this topic:

My alma mater has developed seaweed that tastes like bacon - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board
And I have to repeat my suggested advertising line for it:

Aha! Then this thread should be closed or merged into that one.

Yes, I looked for an existing thread first in GQ, IMHO, and MPSIMS, but I didn’t think to look in CS :smack:

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

Locking duplicate thread.