@mike808@yakkoTDI My kid had a strawberry Frosty the other day. It was so cloyingly sweet I couldn’t stand it. Frostys are chocolate. Anything else is a sin.
@yakkoTDI What are these “chocolate freckles” of which you speak? I’ve never heard of them before, and I don’t remember anything but smoothness in any frosty I’ve had.
My son just started a new job at a Bay area startup that purports to create food protein literally out of thin air. In 2022. Uh-huh, right.
So the Soylent jokes have been thick lately.
(Interesting website, though. https://www.airprotein.com/)
@macromeh The protein in the air is usually called “insects” but most people don’t want flies on their salad…
I looked a their website and I think I understand what they’re doing. If so, then their entire advertising campaign is utterly false and intentionally misleading. (I guess that isn’t any surprise.) I think they’re just getting protein from bacteria (or yeast) while feeding them “elements from the air.” Basically, it’s as much made from air as regular meat is.
I could be wrong, though. (but if so, their website sure isn’t doing anything to correct me)
@macromeh@xobzoo Yeah, looks way past blue-sky to me, well off into “You want me to believe what?” land. I wonder if any of their key people were part of Nikola…
They say they’re using fermentation, and claim to be consuming CO2 when fermentation produces it…
@blaineg@werehatrack@xobzoo Well, apparently there is enough CO2 available in the air to enable soybeans to make their proteins. So it doesn’t seem like such a stretch that engineered microorganisms in a bio-reactor could do something similar (and maybe even more efficiently). In any case, my son is thrilled to put his newly minted Master’s in Bio-process Engineering to use in return for butt-loads of startup money.
I really do want to try an air-scallop, though.
Warm 'n greasy.
@werehatrack Thin 'n runny.
Do they also serve soylent red and soylent yellow?
@yakkoTDI They just introduced “Strawberry” Frostys, so its either people or beaver anal gland extract or both.
@mike808 From what I remember only green had people in it.
@mike808 @yakkoTDI My kid had a strawberry Frosty the other day. It was so cloyingly sweet I couldn’t stand it. Frostys are chocolate. Anything else is a sin.
@mike808 @yakkoTDI I guess that’s why I haven’t been seeing any little green men lately.
@kostia Frostys are not even that good in chocolate anymore. Ever since they got rid of the chocolate freckles they haven’t been the same.
@kostia @yakkoTDI True dat.
@yakkoTDI What are these “chocolate freckles” of which you speak? I’ve never heard of them before, and I don’t remember anything but smoothness in any frosty I’ve had.
@xobzoo @yakkoTDI Same here.
@PooltoyWolf @xobzoo @yakkoTDI
They were bits of cocoa that weren’t quite tempered correctly and they didn’t all dissolve into the mixture.
@mike808 @xobzoo @yakkoTDI Huh, never knew that. TIL
My son just started a new job at a Bay area startup that purports to create food protein literally out of thin air. In 2022. Uh-huh, right.
So the Soylent jokes have been thick lately.
(Interesting website, though. https://www.airprotein.com/)
@macromeh The protein in the air is usually called “insects” but most people don’t want flies on their salad…
I looked a their website and I think I understand what they’re doing. If so, then their entire advertising campaign is utterly false and intentionally misleading. (I guess that isn’t any surprise.) I think they’re just getting protein from bacteria (or yeast) while feeding them “elements from the air.” Basically, it’s as much made from air as regular meat is.
I could be wrong, though. (but if so, their website sure isn’t doing anything to correct me)
@macromeh @xobzoo Yeah, looks way past blue-sky to me, well off into “You want me to believe what?” land. I wonder if any of their key people were part of Nikola…
They say they’re using fermentation, and claim to be consuming CO2 when fermentation produces it…
@macromeh @werehatrack @xobzoo The only semi-skeptical take I found on it.
Based on an old NASA experiment, they say.
https://www.livescience.com/air-protein-meat.html
@blaineg @macromeh @xobzoo Given the tiny percentage of ambient air that is actually CO2, they are leaving out a lot of relevant facts.
@blaineg @werehatrack @xobzoo Well, apparently there is enough CO2 available in the air to enable soybeans to make their proteins. So it doesn’t seem like such a stretch that engineered microorganisms in a bio-reactor could do something similar (and maybe even more efficiently). In any case, my son is thrilled to put his newly minted Master’s in Bio-process Engineering to use in return for butt-loads of startup money.
I really do want to try an air-scallop, though.
gross
I think they’re calling it “pink slime” these days. And/or “hot dog filler.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/probably-still-eating-pink-slime-170000122.html
@ircon96 wtf?
@SEGAStaRBiTS64 IKR?? Bad timing for summer grilling season!