What's for dinner, honey?

[Griffith500]

Good Faggots taste awesome, but that's because Pork Belly is one of the greatest tastes to come out of an animal. Seriously, if you worry about what actually goes in to food, etc, then you might as well not eat anything (particularly anyone who eats takeaways, which is basically everyone). Offal tastes great, but it has to be super fresh. Lambs Liver is one of my favourites, the fact it's very cheap and pretty good for you with high levels of Iron and Vitamin A.

Black pudding is the food of Gods geniuses.

Go different with cuts of meat/animal, you can save a load of money and experience new flavours. Lamb Breasts for example, cheapest cut of Lamb by a long shot, yet it doesn't suffer in flavour.

You're probably right. The faggots I tried were likely the roughest going - looking at the ingredients, they shouldn't have tasted as bad as they did.
Black pudding, actually, is a similar deal; you can get some really foul tasting stuff. Luckily, I found a good butcher in the Outer Hebrides, and I've not needed to try anywhere else since.
Must be an offal thing; you've got to know how not to make it awful.

What's interesting is that people have shied away from the (now) more obscure animal "parts" as availability / affordability / affluence has risen. I wonder what our ancestors would have thought if they knew they could recycle their excrement into another meal.

Waste not; want not - indeed.

 

[Danisfast]

Jokes about how McDonalds recipies have finally been rediscovered, and now having grounds on which to abuse loved-ones' cooking aside, I don't see how methods like this can be prevented from taking their place in the future.

We ARE getting more numerous and the costs of feeding ourselves (in many ways) is also expanding faster than we can keep up with it. This is a potentially golden solution to a serious problem. The only thing standing in our way is our own psychology. They've even gone to the trouble of making it taste and resemble one of our favourite foods (instead of leaving it as a strange grey lump). We shouldn't look to overcome too much psychologically (or else risk losing our sense of perspective), but this is one thing that must (should it get there) be given a good chance.

A few years ago, the British public made a clear statement of intention the their veggies were not to be genetically modified in any way. At the time, it seemed like the right thing to do. Now however, with the global economy effecting prices, and diseases and other natural occurances (like the weather) constantly threatening to weaken our ability to meet demand, we're not looking so clever. This is, of course, unlike the Japanese who do consume GM foods and still have among the highest life-expectancies in the world. Although I do note that GM has only been around long enough to disprove drastic or most significant health effects, and this is not necessarily intended to imply that it prolongs life expectancy.

Done right, we can solve many of the World's problems with findings like this.

 

[FoolKiller]

They've even gone to the trouble of making it taste and resemble one of our favourite foods (instead of leaving it as a strange grey lump).

They claim it tastes and resembles one of our favorite foods, but I've been down that road.

That does not taste good, at least not remotely close to a real hamburger, and they started with something that doesn't, literally, taste like crap. In fact, I will take any soy-based product over fake soy meat.

I should also note that Boca Burgers are loaded with sodium to achieve what taste they do have. Low in fat, low in calories, but 520mg of sodium per burger vs 80 mg in a 1/4lb (4oz) hamburger (unseasoned, the way it should be). Now how much salt is necessary to make crap taste kind of, sort of like meat?

You do raise a good point about how something like this can be a huge key to helping solve hunger in parts of the world. But I suggest that instead of making us overcome our psychological misgivings we give this Soylent Brown (I guess it can also come in green and yellowish varieties, maybe with a little corn mixed in) to the areas that struggle with starvation. Even if they know what it is they may want it. But then, cost effectiveness may play a role there and if they can't make this for less than real meat I doubt you will se much improvement in any way.

 

[Moot]

This is surely what people on a return trip to Mars will be eating.

 

[DK]

I joked about this on Facebook, saying that Austria is well ahead of Japan - in 1889 they actually made a baby from crap (guess who?)