You're going to love the taste of in vitro meat, admit it.
It's a good question. Given that one can taste in meat whether the cow was raised on grass or corn, what is in vitro meat going to taste like?
Try Tofutti sometime:
http://www.tofutti.com/ourProducts.asp
Why ditch just (99% of) the lactose when you can ditch the cow's entire involvement? :)
My supermarket carries it near the cow-milk ice cream, yours might too.
I like the cow parts. Cow parts=creamy. I've had Tofutti. My supermarkets are awash in Tofutti and Rice Dream and at least six other kinds of non-dairy "ice-cream." I've tried several of them. There's no substitute for cow.
Why only cow though? I've had yoghurt from sheep's milk, I think. It was very good.
Why are Iranians lactose-intolerant? Don't they arrange marriages by exchanging herds of cattle? (Or is it camels? Is camel milk low-lactose?)
After a primary culturing with bacteria (like making yogurt), lactose can be made into alcohol using ordinary yeast.
I think Tofutti is a little gross (though in a strangely compelling way), but It's Soy Delicious (NOT the fruit-sweetened kind; the good stuff) and Double Rainbow Soy Cream are as good as regular, IMO.
Why are Iranians lactose-intolerant?
Punishment from God.
Why are Iranians lactose-intolerant?
Because they could get their vitamin D year round from the sun like most of the civilized world. It's only us poor northerners that had to suckle year round to avoid rickets.
Oh, and in my opinion regular Breyer's vanilla is about as good as ice cream gets.
Breyer's is good. I'm also a big fan of Haagen Dazs. Brigham's vanilla is delicious--not as rich as Haagen Dazs--but you can't get Brigham's outside of New England. (They make great peppermint stick ice cream too.)
I never totally got on the ice cream richness bandwagon. And it's not nice to tease about good things I can't get.
I didn't mean to tease. When you come to Massachusetts, you'll have to try some.
You live in Boston and you eat ice cream other than Toscanini's? Blasphemy, I say!
Brigham's is supermarket ice cream, and I've never heard of Toscanini's. Is that in the North End. I'm on a low budget anyway.
I'm a fan of JP Licks. Herrell's is good too.
Cambridge. The original is in Central Square, and there's a branch in Harvard Square (and I think still in the MIT student center.) By far the best ice cream I've ever had -- weird flavors, but nothing that's weird just to be weird, the sort of thing where you realize that you've always wanted cardamom ice cream. And plenty of normal flavors too.
When you come to Massachusetts, you'll have to try some.
I would very much love to! I don't think it will happen any time soon, though. That's a pity.
One ice cream provider that has the odd combination of attributes of being
a) Boston-based before opening a number of branches in New York
and yet
b) really good
is Emack & Bollio's. In fact, it's excellent.
Sorry, baseball has infected my opinion of all things Boston, except for maybe the commenters here.
I think Mass might be the nation's ice cream capital. I once heard that we had the highest per capita consumption of ice cream anywhere in the U.S.
Speaking of unusual flavors, though it appears to have gone mainstream, does anyone know how cake batter flavored ice cream is made?
I think that Ben and Jerry's has a trademark on Chunky Munky, so when J.P. Lick's decided to do a knock off they had to come up with their own name.
Their knock off name was hilarious: Lumpy Primate.
Now that bacon ice cream has gone from a concept to a reality, I'm anxious to see the the next ice cream flavor whose arrival I've been awaiting: Biscuits 'N Gravy.
There's gravy flavor soda -- I saw it on line at Thanksgiving last year.
The Tosci's is gone from MIT, I think it's a burrito place now. They used to give me free ice cream.
I once had lobster ice cream somewhere in Maine. It sucked. It was basically vanilla with buttered chunks of cold lobster thrown in.
gravy flavor soda
Not just gravy, but the whole Thanksgiving meal!
Bacon ice cream! That's like popcorn jelly beans.
The best I've ever had was basil-flavored gelato at Laboratorio del Gelato in New York's Lower East Side. I sampled the flavor on a lark and it blew my mind.
This conversation is reminding me of the dubious culinary merits but sterling integrity of the commercial version of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. That vomit bean tastes like vomit. I was nearly sick when I ate them the first time.
Are the people of India lactose-intolerant? Why are the cows sacred, then?
"This is extremely nasty. Can't prosecute you for that."
OMG. "Flown from Iraq." "Anthrax ripple." It's like they were reading today's headlines.
I respect them. It would have been so easy to make a root beer bean and call it vomit, but they didn't. I think it's my duty to continue to consume them when they're sold, to support integrity in product tie ins.
Yeah Tia, here's the 10 flavor discovery box of Bertie's Botts. In addition to vomit, they've got bacon (hey' there apostropher) and rotten egg.
You could buy, but not eat, them. You could buy them and give them as gifts.
Or put them in a bowl on your desk for the faculty members who are constantly looking for candy to mooch.
Yes! I demand that Grape Nuts taste like both grapes and nuts!
Totally off topic, but you know those multiflavored dog biscuits that come in differently colored and shaped pieces? The "cheese" is a nice yellow and shaped like a cheese wedge, for example?
They all taste the same! Absolutely the same!
Liars!
If you want them to taste like nuts, is that with or without shaving?
Grape nut ice cream is tasty. Or the memory of it would be, if not clouded by the suggestion in 43.
They all taste the same! Absolutely the same!
Also, Beggin' Strips do not taste like bacon.
Bostoniangirl,
Have you tried them?
Haven't you?
Can't say that I'm a dog food coinnoisseur. We used to give our chocolate lab cheap hot dogs as a treat. Those I've tried.
Goddamned Tia has me writing slash in my head whenever two commenters get into any kind of prolonged or playful exchange. It's like a disease.
whenever two commenters get into any kind of prolonged or playful exchange
Ogged and I should be hooking up any thread now.
I guess I'm the only one who's watched Rescue Me; otherwise someone would have to have mentioned beefstachio ice cream.
We used to give our chocolate lab cheap hot dogs as a treat.
At the lab I treated my cheap dog to hot chocolate.
But, yeah, I've tried dog biscuits. Other than the grit they aren't too bad. The label lists no meat products, so how bad can they be?
Labs treated his cheap hottie to... OK, gotta work "dog" and "chocolate" in there and I can't bring myself to sign my name to that.
Ha, slo, I had forgotten all about that. I think "double peaches of pleasure" maybe wiped it out.
52: The benefits of using your real name, it keeps you from going to far over the top.
We used to give our chocolate lab cheap hot dogs as a treat.
Chocolate research doesn't have the prestige of medical research, but it's still important. I'm sure we can expect major breakthroughs from BG's lab.
Sadly, he's not ours any more. My Dad couldn't take care of him anymore, and my parents are retired to the Caribbean. Quarantine would have been too much for poor Boswell.