Evolution has taken a turn that would make Rumpelstiltskin jealous. Michigan State has produced a bacteria that takes a highly toxic substance, Gold Chloride and turns it into pure gold. How amazing is that? Its almost like in Superman where Mr. S takes a piece of coal and squeezes it until it’s a diamond. Before you go investing in a bioengineering degree, Gold Chloride is hard to produce and is expensive. Still, this is pretty amazing stuff.
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What’s the human equivalent of bacon?
There was this movie in the early aughts called Snatch. Arguably Brad Pitt’s best work. I don’t remember a lot about the movie, but I did take away one thing. The major bad guy in the movie, Bricktop, talks about how if you want to disappear someone, you can feed them to pigs. You have to pull out the teeth and fingernails, but he says “they eat through bones like butter”. Why do I remember this? I don’t know. What I do know is that if it really worked, it would be a great way to get rid of a body. From that point on, I was always wary of people who owned pig farms.
Flash forward to today. An Oregon man was found eaten alive by his pigs. No one knows how or why. Heart attack and fell in? Foul Play?
No one got any answers, well except for me.
Road Kill Cafe: Chinese Food Edition
I don’t even know where to begin with this one. This is what kitschy t-shirts are made of. In Kentucky (where else) a Chinese restaurant was shut down because some of the workers were caught wheeling a dead deer through the back door, into the kitchen. When the police asked, they did admit to the wrong doing and claimed they did not know they weren’t supposed to do that. I don’t know if that is because of their recent arrival in America, or the “acceptable food’ etiquette in that part of the country. I do know that the most disturbing part of that is this wasn’t a deer they just hit. I could ALMOST understand why they would think that is okay. I’ve had venison jerky, and I know a bunch of hunters who have hit deer and brought it home. Not saying I would do it, but I get it. No this was just a random dead deer. How long? Who knows. Guesstimate? Yeah no idea. Probably not too long?
Oh and all they have to do to reopen is sanitize the kitchen.
Fishy Finger Nuggets
This story is incredible. In Washington, a wakeboarder (no idea) was well I guess wakeboarding when his fingers got caught in a towline loop. He struggled to get them out before the boat gunned it and failed. He looks down at his hand and sees 4 bloody stumps where his fingers used to be. No pain, he insists. I feel like I would have handled that situation the exact same way.
So fast forward weeks. A mild-mannered woman, catches a bunch of fish and takes them home to clean. While doing that, she discovers a finger in the fishes stomach! She calls the cops, they fingerprint it, and of course it’s the wakeboarders (I think it’s something like water skiing). They offer him the finger (no seriously) and he says “Nah, I’m good” (Thank god). Then the cop goes on about how well preserved the fingers are, given that when you are in the tub for 20 minutes they get all pruney. That’s a good call I say.
Good think she didn’t catch a Pacu. It would have been spaghetti and meatballs for dinner.
The upcoming bacapalypse
It is official: A bacon shortage is coming. Well, a pork shortage, but that quickly will cut into bacon, make no mistake. Man my roommate is going to be pissed. He loves this stuff. He buys the good kind. You know the stuff I’m talking about. Apple musk, hickey smoked, all that nonsense. I am not in love with bacon myself, but the stuff he makes really causes me to question my meat loyalties.
A good friend of mine, her mom is one of the leading experts on bacon, yet she cooks it in the microwave. I don’t get it. Anyway apparently her palate is so refined that someone tried to pass off “Boars hog” bacon as…I guess regular bacon, (I am a novice here) and she went absolutely ape $#!*. Pretty funny actually.
My financial advice: invest in Bacon Bits futures. I think that their small size, and ability to be liquidated easily will make them the currency of the future.
Also, what does this mean for the future of fair food? What will they wrap other meats in next?