who wants a smoothie?
See: “Food of the Gods,” Arthur C. Clarke.
My kids know that phrase even though they’ve never read the story. Good one.
So does anyone have any information on how humans DO taste?
Like has a cannibal made that official statement?
I prefer free-range human. You can really taste the joie de vivre.
I am one of the most adventurous eaters I know. I have tried everything from ants and crickets to mammoth meat to freeze dried ice cream. I’m on a quest to figure out a way to try durian without stinking up my house.
But I wouldn’t even try it, and I probably wouldn’t date somebody who did. That is just instinctively, viscerally, icky; I find the idea revolting.
I have to think vat-grown meat of any kind would not really be all that good.
Personally I don’t think I could go the cannibal route, so I would stay away.
Plus a little surprised this went 25+ posts without
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they weren’t vat grown they were scooped up with a front end loader.
Is it really good?
Sir, it’s too good, at least.
I wouldn’t buy anything from a manufacturer who claims to guarantee that no one could possibly have ethical qualms about their product.
I have it on good authority that they taste like chicken.
I agree. As far as I’m concerned, ‘vat grown meat’ is just ‘meat’; it doesn’t come from any specific type of animal.
Perhaps if the remarkably unappetizing word “vat” were to be omitted from the promotional campaign, the Human Meat Council would find greater success.
But it won’t commit sins of the flesh …
Yeah, that definitely dates the the story.
It sort of begs the question of whether or not it’s ethical to purposely grow human flesh for consumption. It’s unlikely to taste better than the sorts of meats we are accustomed to eating, so what would be the purpose other than a transgressive thrill?
That’s OK, you just need to pick up a copy of To Serve Man.
Can I make bacon out of it?
Ow come on! Did none of you enjoy nibbling the crusty bloody scabs on your knee, a few days after you fell and hurt your knee? I did.
Only if it’s fully cooked. Because human tissue (even in a vat) can harbor pathogens dangerous to humans.
Catchy tune, though…and maybe, just for a moment, I pictured the two of us dancing about and singing that number. Maybe.