Meat. It grows on trees now.

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― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Fruit from the new Meat Trees, developed by British scientists using gene-splicing technology, closely resembles ordinary grapefruit. But when you peel the large fruit open, inside is fresh beef."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

That is so bizarre. It's good, yet disturbing. I love grapefruit and I think I might have nightmares about meat grapefruit. In the end, it sounds like a fine idea. I'm feeling confused though. Very confused.
Me now, "Excuse me, but does this have meat in it?"
Me in the future, "Excuse me, but was this meat grown on a tree?"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Flying fucking cars, too much to ask? Apparently.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm, from the weekly world news entertainment gossip pages.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

You sure the dateline wasn't April 1?

Also, this sounds curiously familiar to an urban legend in which a research had spliced marijuana genes into orange trees to produce high-THC fruit.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

If this is true, it's almost as good as spider-goats.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

That is weird, but no weirder than using cows to make polymers in their milk based upon the same proteins in spiders web, which is something I heard about last year on NPR.

I hadn't heard about the goats, but same difference.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

andrew, there was just an article in slate.com about that...
http://slate.msn.com/id/2082929/

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

by the way, i'm confused and slightly repulsed at the idea of grapefruit meat. why would anyone think of that?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Because the people who write the Weekly World News are GENIUSES. DId I mention that my birthday is coming up?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasn't actually all that angry, I don't even have a license.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, was anyone really supposed to believe this or what?

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.kimstim.com/images/svank/meat2.jpeg

Holy farck, it's Svankmajer's fruit tree.
I would give anything to have the writing brilliance of the Weekly World News.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I do believe this, to a point. I wrote a paper about the possibility of this very same use of genetic engineering back in high school. Don't know why this story is in the entertainment section of Yahoo!, though.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, was anyone really supposed to believe this or what?
*sigh*

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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