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Title: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: roo_ster on June 16, 2011, 12:14:46 PM
http://www.odditycentral.com/videos/researcher-creates-artificial-meat-based-on-human-excrement.html

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The Japanese researcher from the Okayama laboratory says its country has more sewage mud than they can handle, so Tokyo Sewarage asked him to explore its possible use. Knowing the wacky nature of many Japanese scientists, it’s no surprise he came up with a turd burger. During his research, he discovered sewage mud contains a great deal of protein so he began developing a process of extracting that valuable protein and turning it into a viable meat substitute.

"Soylent Brown is not people!"

Bon Apetit!

Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: kgbsquirrel on June 16, 2011, 12:17:31 PM
 [barf]
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on June 16, 2011, 12:19:50 PM
Give it a 4-letter name and put it in a can.   :lol:
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: HankB on June 16, 2011, 12:33:05 PM
Give it a 4-letter name and put it in a can.   :lol:
We're ahead of the Japs for once . . . we already have SPAM.   [barf]
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Lanius on June 16, 2011, 12:41:01 PM
I mean, as long as the process extracts only the protein, and not something nasty out of the sewage...

Dunno, but if they were selling it, and I was a student in Japan, I'd probably eat it.  I mean, I have eaten canned stuff most people on APS  wouldn't touch with a three meter spork. Horse goulash? Pork spam? etc...

Why? Tasted okay and was cheap... and food regulations around here are more stringent than in the US, so it was okay.
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"Soylent Brown is not people!"

Would make a great marketing slogan for the turd blossom.. pardon turd burger.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Boomhauer on June 16, 2011, 12:48:29 PM
I hear Bear Grylls can't wait to try it...

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Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: 41magsnub on June 16, 2011, 12:50:36 PM
I think he should get his unprocessed.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: AJ Dual on June 16, 2011, 12:54:05 PM
Holy crap... (literally)

We need to get this scientist in touch with the Milwaukee Metropolitain Sewage District IMMEDIATELY! I think we may FINALLY have a solution to our long standing problems with the "Deep Tunnel Project" and our sewage overflow problems into Lake Michigan!*

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/98627779.html

*(Obscure, but Brimic and Monkeyleg ought to know what I'm talking about..  =D )

Short version:

Milwaukee, due to it's progressive nature was the first U.S. major city to have a sewer system. However in so doing, it was done way before sewage treatment was even an idea, and just went out into Lake Michigan, and the storm drains and toilets all go into the same parts for a region of the "old city".

Once a sewage treatment plant was hooked up, it would still just overflow and go directly into Lake Michigan every time it rained, with no way to handle the capacity. The sewers needed to be separated. Problem.... Milwaukee did not want to pay to have the extensive street by street work done.

Milwaukee, in typical libtarded deviousness figures out a way to make the "wealthy" suburbs pay for Milwaukee's combined sewers. They create the MMSD, trick the burbs into thinking that being a full partner with voting rights on the MMSD would cost MORE, so they don't get adequately represented/have veto power. Then they create the Deep Tunnel Project to hold ALL sewage, Milwaukee and suburban, so rainwater/poop overflow from downtown can be stored, and processed later on dry days. But, because all the suburbs sewage also went through the tunnel, Milwaukee and the MMSD could foist the costs onto them too for "their fair share".

Then, on top of it all, after decades of digging (all the pretty limestone rock that lines the lakefront) and billions of dollars... the Deep Tunnel doesn't even work. Only a 100 year flood/rainstorm is supposed to exceed it's capacity, but instead, Lake Michigan gets pewp in it most every thunderstorm that passes through...

So now with this great invention, we can cheaply feed all the revelers down at the lakefront like at Summerfest!  =D


Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: HankB on June 16, 2011, 01:21:06 PM
HERE'S AN IDEA: Henceforth, Japanese turdburgers are the ONLY item that can be purchased with food stamps or welfare checks.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Boomhauer on June 16, 2011, 01:25:20 PM
HERE'S AN IDEA: Henceforth, Japanese turdburgers are the ONLY item that can be purchased with food stamps or welfare checks.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter...

Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: White Horseradish on June 16, 2011, 01:42:05 PM
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I went into another chamber, but was ready to hasten back, being almost overcome with a horrible stink.  My conductor pressed me forward, conjuring me in a whisper “to give no offence, which would be highly resented;” and therefore I durst not so much as stop my nose.  The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth.  When I was presented to him, he gave me a close embrace, a compliment I could well have excused.  His employment, from his first coming into the academy, was an operation to reduce human excrement to its original food, by separating the several parts, removing the tincture which it receives from the gall, making the odour exhale, and scumming off the saliva.  He had a weekly allowance, from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure, about the bigness of a Bristol barrel.

Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world
Jonathan Swift
1892


Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Lanius on June 16, 2011, 02:30:05 PM
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HERE'S AN IDEA: Henceforth, Japanese turdburgers are the ONLY item that can be purchased with food stamps or welfare checks.
Methinks you should let them buy potatoes too.  Eating just turdburgers is bound to be unhealthy..



Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 16, 2011, 02:41:12 PM
Veggie-burger, turd-burger, same-same.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Waitone on June 16, 2011, 03:35:37 PM
Raw sewage can be rendered harmless with a healthy dose of ionization radiation.  It can then be used in any number of applications such as mulch or ceramics filler.  I don't think fast food is a likely use. . . . .   Then again, Japan already has in place ample supplies of ionization radiation producing isotopes in the wild >:D

Hey Makattak, is this an example of comparable advantage?
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: makattak on June 16, 2011, 03:38:56 PM
Raw sewage can be rendered harmless with a healthy dose of ionization radiation.  It can then be used in any number of applications such as mulch or ceramics filler.  I don't think fast food is a likely use. . . . .   Then again, Japan already has in place ample supplies of ionization radiation producing isotopes in the wild >:D

Hey Makattak, is this an example of comparable advantage?

Perhaps. I don't really have an interest to study it closely, though (either the turd burger OR the radiation...) :lol:
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Scout26 on June 16, 2011, 03:50:52 PM
Holy crap... (literally)

We need to get this scientist in touch with the Milwaukee Metropolitain Sewage District IMMEDIATELY! I think we may FINALLY have a solution to our long standing problems with the "Deep Tunnel Project" and our sewage overflow problems into Lake Michigan!*

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/98627779.html

*(Obscure, but Brimic and Monkeyleg ought to know what I'm talking about..  =D )

Short version:

Milwaukee, due to it's progressive nature was the first U.S. major city to have a sewer system. However in so doing, it was done way before sewage treatment was even an idea, and just went out into Lake Michigan, and the storm drains and toilets all go into the same parts for a region of the "old city".

Once a sewage treatment plant was hooked up, it would still just overflow and go directly into Lake Michigan every time it rained, with no way to handle the capacity. The sewers needed to be separated. Problem.... Milwaukee did not want to pay to have the extensive street by street work done.

Milwaukee, in typical libtarded deviousness figures out a way to make the "wealthy" suburbs pay for Milwaukee's combined sewers. They create the MMSD, trick the burbs into thinking that being a full partner with voting rights on the MMSD would cost MORE, so they don't get adequately represented/have veto power. Then they create the Deep Tunnel Project to hold ALL sewage, Milwaukee and suburban, so rainwater/poop overflow from downtown can be stored, and processed later on dry days. But, because all the suburbs sewage also went through the tunnel, Milwaukee and the MMSD could foist the costs onto them too for "their fair share".

Then, on top of it all, after decades of digging (all the pretty limestone rock that lines the lakefront) and billions of dollars... the Deep Tunnel doesn't even work. Only a 100 year flood/rainstorm is supposed to exceed it's capacity, but instead, Lake Michigan gets pewp in it most every thunderstorm that passes through...

So now with this great invention, we can cheaply feed all the revelers down at the lakefront like at Summerfest!  =D




I guess Milorganite  (http://www.milorganite.com/home/)sales are down.....
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: 280plus on June 16, 2011, 04:01:04 PM
I ate something in Taiwan once that may have been a turd burger.  [barf]
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: bedlamite on June 16, 2011, 04:45:16 PM
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Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Lanius on June 16, 2011, 05:15:03 PM
@Bedlamite

Looks yummy. Needs to be fried first though.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: 41magsnub on June 16, 2011, 05:27:10 PM
2 girls one big cardboard cup?
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: vaskidmark on June 16, 2011, 05:49:27 PM
OK, time to start checking country of origin lables on edible products if you were not already doing that.

A while ago on I think it was the Science channel there was a program about fish farming.  While watching with some interest I was informed by the program that many fish-farmers have, in addition to their regular and advertised species a heavy investment in talapia.  The fish-farmers scoop out all the fish from tank A, then instead of doing anything else tp prepare it for re-use they transfer in talapia from formerly used and dirty tank B, which is not clean and ready for new fish to be raised therein.  I never knew before watching the program that talapia were bottom feeders, or what specifucally they fed on off the bottom.  After watching the program I remain, to this day, convinced that there is now way the digestive organs of a fish can filter out fish poo and convert the contents of fish poo into clean, edible protien.

Which brings me to this: do not eat talapia raised in either Japan or Milwaukee.

stay safe.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: AJ Dual on June 16, 2011, 06:04:04 PM
I guess Milorganite  (http://www.milorganite.com/home/)sales are down.....

I think a lot of it got diverted to MPS cafeterias.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Waitone on June 16, 2011, 06:18:19 PM
Ain't marketing a wunnerful thang? 

Can't give away brown mushrooms?  Rename'em shiitaki mushrooms and presto change-o you've got an exotic yuppified food.

Can't sell sewer bass?  Call'em talapia and you've got a new profit center.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Lanius on June 16, 2011, 06:20:03 PM
You people are such wimps. I mean, not eat tilapia fish? Because they eat fish poo? Pigs eat a lot of repulsive stuff, but taste nice. Rabbits eat their own droppings, guinea pigs do that, and they all taste really nice. Guinea pigs especially. Very tender and sweet meat.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger..
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: 41magsnub on June 16, 2011, 06:22:17 PM
When somebody figures out how to make Tilapia bacon we can talk, until then.....
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: RocketMan on June 16, 2011, 09:43:39 PM
Hell, I'll still eat tilapia. They're too tasty not to.  It is surprising that, for bottom feeders, they are such a mild tasting white fleshed fish.

As far as turd burgers in Japan, they already have natto.  Turd burgers can't be any worse.  Or much different.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 16, 2011, 10:17:03 PM
When somebody figures out how to make Tilapia bacon...


We'll either burn them for blasphemy or kiss the ground they walk on.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: BobR on June 17, 2011, 01:03:03 AM
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Ain't marketing a wunnerful thang? 

Can't give away brown mushrooms?  Rename'em shiitaki mushrooms and presto change-o you've got an exotic yuppified food.

Can't sell sewer bass?  Call'em talapia and you've got a new profit center.

The first time I ran into this, and recognized it, was when I went to the store and they had a new fish in the display. It was called orange roughy. I went home and did a little reading on it. Turns out it was (is) known as slimehead in other places.

Since the rename it has become pretty popular, to the point that it may someday be fished to extinction. They don't even start to reproduce until they are 30 years old or so, and can live over 100 years.

I think we need to change the name back to slimehead. After all, who would come over for a nice meal of macadamia encrusted slimehead?

bob

Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Lanius on June 17, 2011, 08:12:35 AM
.. fishing is one of the areas that's really effed up.

Between growing anoxic zones and overfishing.. It looks like that if nothing is done, a lot of fisheries will be just  empty ocean by 2050.

BTW, in some places tilapia fish live in drinking water channels. Their eat dirt and algae in the water, and their excrement apparently doesn't change the drinkability of the water...
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: seeker_two on June 17, 2011, 10:23:23 AM
Isn't this basically what the food replicators and waste reclaimation on Star Trek are based on?.....  =|
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: KD5NRH on June 17, 2011, 11:15:51 AM
I mean, as long as the process extracts only the protein, and not something nasty out of the sewage...

Pour it on a field.  Grow stuff in the field.  Feed the stuff grown in the field to food.  Eat food.  Nature had this problem licked centuries ago.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: roo_ster on June 17, 2011, 11:45:50 AM
You people are such wimps. I mean, not eat tilapia fish? Because they eat fish poo? Pigs eat a lot of repulsive stuff, but taste nice. Rabbits eat their own droppings, guinea pigs do that, and they all taste really nice. Guinea pigs especially. Very tender and sweet meat.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger..

Hogs get filthy and nasty, but don't eat near as filthy & nasty as many other farm animals.  You want a critter that eats filthy, given the option?  Chickens.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Lanius on June 17, 2011, 03:43:58 PM
Chickens eat filthy? ... factory raised? The chicken I've fed and observed ate okay stuff... whatever they could find in the garden and some cereal stuff ...
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Sindawe on June 17, 2011, 09:12:39 PM
Isn't this basically what the food replicators and waste reclaimation on Star Trek are based on?.....  =|

TOS Trek, yes.  By the TNG era the waste matter was converted to energy which was then used to recreate the edible food stuff.

Unless you happen to stuck on the otherside of the galaxy.  Then you had to hire on some local con-artist and his 3 year old girl friend as ships cook.

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Pour it on a field.  Grow stuff in the field.  Feed the stuff grown in the field to food.  Eat food.  Nature had this problem licked centuries ago.

Quoted for truth.  In all likleyhood the atoms of anything you eat (or drink) has been through some creatures digestive system and poo'd out at least once in the history of the world.  With the exception of most of the metals, it is not the atoms that matter but how they are put together into molecules that counts.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: 41magsnub on June 17, 2011, 11:01:53 PM
But does a tilapia have personality?
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: mtnbkr on June 17, 2011, 11:05:40 PM
But does a tilapia have personality?

It better be one charming tilapia.

Chris
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Ned Hamford on June 18, 2011, 06:24:15 PM
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I think I've seen that color before...
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: roo_ster on June 18, 2011, 08:43:41 PM
Chickens eat filthy? ... factory raised? The chicken I've fed and observed ate okay stuff... whatever they could find in the garden and some cereal stuff ...

Factory raised, too, but not as much.

Lotsa chickens die & putrefy in a factory setting, too.  As they putrefy, other chickens eat the various bits of chicken, maggots, fecal soup fermenting in their entrails, etc.  That doesn't take too long to occur in a chicken house in the Ozarks during the months of June, July, and August.

The more liberty they have, the most nasty bits they eat. 

Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Lanius on June 18, 2011, 08:48:05 PM
So then, if you don't wannt eat filthy, you have to eat home-grown chickens. I can't imagine a small breeder's chickens dying and then getting eaten without him noticing.

BTW, what's the problem with chicken eating maggots? Maggots are good protein. I see it as a minor failing of the Western civilization, this irrational phobia we have towards insects and invertebrates. Most of them are good eating, and not poisonous..
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: lee n. field on June 18, 2011, 10:58:57 PM
As far as turd burgers in Japan, they already have natto. 

My nieces like it, so I'm told.

Cuitlacoche (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000344.php) sounds comparable.


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Cuitlacoche is a black fungus that infects corn fields, making the kernels bulbous and swollen as they fill with spores. It also goes by the name Huitlacoche. If you're having trouble with the pronounciation, it's: Cuitlacoche (kweet-lah-KOH-chay) or Huitlacoche (dat-sf**kin-NAS-tee).

Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Northwoods on June 19, 2011, 12:55:39 AM
The Brits/Kiwis/Aussies had that food on store shelves 60 years ago. 

Vegimite and Marmite.
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: seeker_two on June 19, 2011, 01:23:40 AM
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I think I've seen that color before...

This should scare ALL of us.....  :O
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Lanius on June 19, 2011, 06:56:52 AM
I've heard that marmite is delicious... isn't it made from byproducts from beer production?
Title: Re: Japanese Turd Burger
Post by: Northwoods on June 19, 2011, 01:03:28 PM
I've heard that marmite is delicious... isn't it made from byproducts from beer production?

Both are yeast related products.  But have you ever seen it?  It looks like what I've wiped off my kids bottoms many times.  I just can't get past that visual when it's spread on a piece of bread.