# What's the Straight Dope on Glowing Pork? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 14, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364 "2011-04-14T13:30:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/1 "2011-04-14T13:30:27Z")
[http://www.slashfood.com/2011/04/13/glowing-blue-pork-found-in-china/](http://www.slashfood.com/2011/04/13/glowing-blue-pork-found-in-china/) > [@](#): > > apparently someone named “Neusch” in Basel observed in 1877 “that pork which was kept in a receptacle in a pantry emitted a green light of such intensity that people were able to recognize each other by it and to read the time on their watches.” What could be the source of this alleged necroluminescence? ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/2 "2011-04-14T17:03:38Z")
I’m going to go with a phosphorescent bacteria, such as _Pseudomonas cyanagenus_. Go on, call me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/3 "2011-04-14T18:36:52Z")
“It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws.” I, for one, will not be drinking the new city water of Shanghai. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/4 "2011-04-14T18:41:14Z")
Rlyeh not? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/5 "2011-04-14T18:45:41Z")
Probably a misunderstanding, and it was supposed to be “g **r** owing pork.” ---
**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:** [April 14, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/6 "2011-04-14T18:49:16Z")
Yet more proof that the pig is, as Homer wisely observed, a magical animal. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/7 "2011-04-14T20:51:01Z")
Ew. I was going to guess that the pig had been fed on jelly fish - a common protein source in China. Kinda disappointed actually. And grossed out of course. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/8 "2011-04-14T22:19:45Z")
Pork violates Kryptonian Kosher. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/9 "2011-04-14T22:37:42Z")
Would you eat it on a boat? Would you eat it on a goat? Would you eat it if in debt Would you eat it on a bet? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/10 "2011-04-15T02:52:04Z")
> [@Grossbottom](#): > > I’m going to go with a phosphorescent bacteria, such as _Pseudomonas cyanagenus_. Go on, call me crazy. I read a comment by a character in _Ulysses_, that old cod was slightly shining in the dark. Could this be the same cause? ---
**Author:** ![wbeaty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/439d5e/32.png) [@wbeaty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wbeaty)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/11 "2011-04-15T07:07:15Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > I read a comment by a character in _Ulysses_, that old cod was slightly shining in the dark. > Could this be the same cause? While examining store-bought cold salmon at a party under black lights, I noticed many slightly fluorescent green regions were visible. * * * Debbie: Can I ask you a question? Grim Reaper: What? Debbie: … How can we all have died at the _same_ time? Grim Reaper: [pointing] The salmon mousse! ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-glowing-pork/578364/12 "2011-04-15T13:21:26Z")
Would you eat it while at night? If you could see by its own light? I think that you would love it so, while sitting it its pleasant glow. I do not want to sit and eat by the light of this pork meat! I do not like your glowing ham! I do not like it Sam-I-am