Japanese Turd Burger

[roo_ster]

http://www.odditycentral.com/videos/researcher-creates-artificial-meat-based-on-human-excrement.html

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!

[kgbsquirrel]

 

[AZRedhawk44]

Give it a 4-letter name and put it in a can.   

[HankB]

Give it a 4-letter name and put it in a can.   

We're ahead of the Japs for once . . . we already have SPAM.   

[Lanius]

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.

"Soylent Brown is not people!"

Would make a great marketing slogan for the turd blossom.. pardon turd burger.

[Boomhauer]

I hear Bear Grylls can't wait to try it...

[41magsnub]

I think he should get his unprocessed.

[AJ Dual]

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..   )

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!  

[HankB]

HERE'S AN IDEA: Henceforth, Japanese turdburgers are the ONLY item that can be purchased with food stamps or welfare checks.

[Boomhauer]

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...

[White Horseradish]

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

[Lanius]

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..

[Perd Hapley]

Veggie-burger, turd-burger, same-same.

[Waitone]

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

Hey Makattak, is this an example of comparable advantage?

[makattak]

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

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...)

[Scout26]

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..   )

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!  

I guess Milorganite sales are down.....

[280plus]

I ate something in Taiwan once that may have been a turd burger. 

[bedlamite]

[Lanius]

@Bedlamite

Looks yummy. Needs to be fried first though.

[41magsnub]

2 girls one big cardboard cup?

[vaskidmark]

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.

[AJ Dual]

I guess Milorganite sales are down.....

I think a lot of it got diverted to MPS cafeterias.

[Waitone]

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.

[Lanius]

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..

[41magsnub]

When somebody figures out how to make Tilapia bacon we can talk, until then.....