DailyDirt: Strange Foods
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
With the holidays approaching, there are lots of recipes and cooking ideas floating around online. But it's way more interesting to us to read up on weird foods that are out there (not turduckens). We're making a list. We're not checking it twice. Most of these foods are not nice at all, and some are just gross. Bon appetit!We'd love to hear about some more weird foods in the comments, too.A 2,400-year-old old soup has been discovered in China. I wonder how long modern soup cans will last? Mmm. Mmm. Good. [url] Russians are working on mice that can produce milk with human breast milk proteins. And eventually, these human milk genes will be commercially available in rabbits, goats and cows. [url] Until other mammals start making human milk, though, there's always milk trading groups on Facebook. But the FDA doesn't recommend this process, either. [url] Maybe people should be eating more insects. It's not just for reality TV shows. [url] If the thought of eating insects isn't appealing, it's a lot more appetizing to eat meat from animals that feel no pain. It's just a couple steps away from the restaurant at the end of the universe. [url] For the holidays, Estonians are singled out for their blood-sausage-eating tradition on Christmas. Some Taiwanese pig blood popsicles sound good to me, too. [url]
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Neo-Vegan
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bad link --- and PLEASE fix you web site - - it really sucks,, big time..
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Re: bad link --- and PLEASE fix you web site - - it really sucks,, big time..
As for the "insect pain" link... the link is not about insects that feel no pain... it's about larger mammals (like cows) that are engineered to feel no pain. So I think the link is correct, but maybe my description of it is misleading. Apologies!
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Works great for me, keep up the great work!
Darryl, if this site truly "SUCKS" maybe you should stop visiting it.
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In order to be a good TRAWLER you usually have to go to deeper waters. Often places like as Lake Superior, Lake Chelan or Lake P0we11 (But don't go to Lake P0we11 because Trawling at Lake P0we11 is illegal).
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawling
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He probably has caught something, or installed way to much crap, or the registry is screwed up, or the windows auto update system screwed up, or iexplore.exe is screwed up due to last months update, or some combo. I had the same problem with on one of my machines.
The solution, re-install the OS from scratch. Time 1.5 hours.
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The link's description actually says "If the thought of eating insects isn't appealing, it's a lot more appetizing to eat meat from animals that feel no pain." That is they aren't talking about insects but animals, in this case cows that don't feel pain. Perhaps a reading lesson would help.
And off-topic: the site works perfectly for me and my connection, and other people have responded to you in the past with the same. Perhaps, just perhaps the issue is on your end? You know since you are the only one (that is known) that is having issues?
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So the cause is most likely PEBKAC.
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Quit it.
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I wonder how long modern soup cans will last?
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Re: I wonder how long modern soup cans will last?
They typically last longer than the listed expire date, i.e. some drugs are still potent 10 years after they "expire."
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After a certain (long) amount of time there may be a loss of proper texture, some nutrients may eventually degrade, but for most things there is no guideline of "after x-days this is now poison"
I myself once consumed a can of pears that were taken from the back of an elderly grandparents pantry. No recognizable date on that can, but if it fit with the 'strata' nearby it may have been 20 years old or more*. Was perfectly normal, i did not die, etc.
*date taken from a small sealed glass jar of a mysterious chipped beef shaved dry meat.. stuff? even in the name of science, i was not going to open that. i wouldnt open it if it was new either.
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People eat mold when they get some kinds of cheese.
Ethanol I believe is bacteria pee in a sense.
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That is the dumbest thing I have ever read this year LoL
Solution: Stop wanking, close all those PornTube tabs and things will get to normal also try to not let the browser open for hours, most of them have memory leaks and slowdown after a while but surely you the guy with all the knowledge on the universe knew that right?
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Sucks? I'll tell you what sucks!
Mike, the whole idea of bit.ly (and their ilk) is to shorten the URL for the ease of users. Since your links are bound to a description (and not just a text link), you have no REASON to use a URL shortener. bit.ly links can point to any web service anywhere, so they are inherently untrustable.
PLEASE don't use URL shorteners, especially when you have no reason to! The security-smart users won't click them.
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The original URLs are included at the end of each blurb, so you can click on the [url] link if you don't want to use the bitly links. There's also a Firefox extension that lets you preview the links before clicking through:
http://blog.bit.ly/post/68979274/expand-urls-and-get-traffic-summaries-before
FYI, the only reason why we're using bitly urls is to get some clickthru feedback for these links. Bitly provides free and public traffic data -- just add a "+" to the end of any of its shortened links, and you'll see.
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Pigturducken
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Weird foods
For those who haven't tried them, fried bamboo worms are both nutritious and tasty. Ditto for bee grubs.
Also, donkey meat is very lean, but otherwise tastes like beef veal.
Fried grasshoppers, and chocolate-covered ants didn't taste all that good.
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