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Skriven 2007-07-26 20:53:36 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: RE: inedible species 888
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Hulllooooooooooo Michael!

->  -> I don't see it impossible - as I understand it, you just extract
->  -> protein out of a sludge or slurry made of unwanted animal parts,
->  -> bleach it out, flavor it, and spin it into more-or-less convincing
->  -> fibers.
->  HN> While it may not be impossible it certainly would make the end 
product
->  HN> quite  expensive I suspect!
-> 
-> I don't know about that - don't they do that anyhow with trash
-> fish? The nudibranchs would just require the added step of
-> neutralizing the acid sludge, if that isn't taken care of in
-> the bleaching process.
-> 
That and the fact that even though they are fairly plentiful, they are not 
gregarious and you have to search for them individually. And they live in the 
mudflats, Amanda was adament about me not going out with her..she was 
afraid my back would go out from the exertion of trying to walk in thigh deep 
mud. (personally I think she was afraid I'd have a heart attack out there and 
she'd have to haul my carcass to shore (GRIN))

-> 
->  HN> Happily her funding problems are over for the duration ( or so it
->  HN> seems) as  she has more grants than she has opportunities to fulfill
->  HN> them! She is still  following the slime trail (pun intended) to see
->  HN> where it leads in terms of  having any sort of effect on the feeding
->  HN> rates of the crabs.  
-> 
-> There's gotta be a use for that slime. I think there would be a
-> lot to be learned (as I've said) from the properties of mucus of
-> all sorts (and, for the retentive scientist of the future, of
-> feces, for that matter).
-> 
I tend to agree, but Amanda is much less interested in the chemical 
properties of the slime than she is the reactions of the nearby animals to the 
slime's presence.  I'd be more inclined to study the slime as I think as you do

there must be something interesting going on there!

->  -> Butter pecan ice cream
->  HN> Ooooh one of my favorites! That and Black Walnut, Pistachio, and
->  HN> licorice!
-> 
-> You can make black walnut and pistachio pretty much by the same
-> method (I'd omit the shenanigans with the butter, though, for
-> these). Licorice, well, I found this on chow.com (which appears
-> to be the same as chowhound.com - is it?) -
-> 
I have no idea whatsoever about chowhound.com...never been there (grin)
I like the licorice ice cream...because I like licorice...and the coloring they
use 
to make it black is really a very lovely shade of blue (the next day at least) 
when it is thinned out by the uh....water in the "facility" !
chat with you soon
hap 
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