“I like rice. Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.” – Mitch Hedberg
That got me thinking: what if I want to eat two million of something? I’m wondering what individual items eaten as food are the smallest. Possible candidates include:
Those sprinkles you put on ice cream
sesame seeds
poppy seeds
Whole items only, please; nothing cut, diced or ground up or powdered.
白子 (Shirako)?
Its cod fish, really young codfish if you get my drift.
Salt grains?
Poppy seeds ? One at a time.
Umm, does stuff with yeast or bacteria count? I mean you have a yogurt, beer, or cheese and you’re consuming countless little buggers.
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Krill. The main reason whales are slaughtered. So there’s more for us.
Same thing as my answer here.
A nice bottle conditioned beer will have billions and billions of tasty yeasty beasties.
Couldn’t you argue that liquid water, which is a loose agglomeration of water molecules that are not actually connected to each other, would be it? You certainly absorb them one at a time. If water doesn’t count as food, maybe a small nutritive molecule like sugar, in a water solution?
The individual grains are less than 1mm in size
Yogurt and other bacteria products.
I got the winner here: the eggs and sperm of the Palolo worm.
“The reproductive portion of the palolo worm is used as a food source for natives in Samoa during their short lived annual appearance during the last quarter of the moon in October and November. During this time they are enthusiastically gathered with a net and either eaten raw or cooked in several different manners. This event is so important to the inhabitants of the Banks Islands, that it featured in their Lunar Calendar.”
However, it sounds like the epitoke or piece of the palolo worm that actually contains the eggs and sperm, which is apparently what people collect and eat, is significantly bigger than, say, a poppy seed.
You’re funny.
I vote for:
virus burgers?
Mmmm, I think I’ll leave out water, and any other inorganic materials, in favor of plant or animal bits.
OK, so bacteria or yeasts and, er, the sperm of various things, all of which basically make poppy seeds look rather filling. Thanks, folks. Anything else?
How about Red Ant eggs? Warm on toast, apparently.
Good for making your bacon to look really, REALLY big.