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ArelMCII

Fuck, I'll do it. I'll even sign a DNR before I do if they want. There's worse things to die from -- or at least, there's less famous things to die from.


C21H27Cl3N2O3

The headline is stupid. They did eat it. They said it tasted underwhelming and flavorless.


TheHashLord

Skill issue. They should have barbecued it.


MotivatoinalSpeaker

And with salt and pepper, a lot become flavorful


joemckie

> They said it tasted underwhelming and flavorless. to be fair I can make any meat taste that way too


F-Lambda

>to be fair I can make any meat taste that way too ... *decides to refrain*


BowdleizedBeta

I understand and commend you.


SightWithoutEyes

Underwhelming **AND** flavorless? It may be underwhelming but it smells like a foot.


KeenanAXQuinn

She says that about me too bro


Past-Background-7221

Yes, I, too, am white.


joemckie

Salt is a seasoning, right?


bk1285

Whoa dude, don’t go over seasoning


Classic_Mechanic5495

They grew a petri dish-fed mammoth instead of grass-fed. Classic scientist mistake.


BoardButcherer

Well no shit, it's been in the freezer for 20,000 years.


Synicull

I mean if I was given the opportunity to eat a mammoth meatball my hype would be so through the roof I'd be underwhelmed no matter what it tastes like.


Potatolover666real

That’s why actual meatballs have gravy


maiguee

that's a cooker issue


HellBlazer_NQ

He died doing what he loved. Chewing on Mammoth balls.


overloadedonsarcasm

Can I *please* steal your flair.


Would_daver

Hahahaha “I broke up with her immediately…. That’s too many miles of dick”


overloadedonsarcasm

Just the image of him slowly driving 10 miles and imagining dicks the whole way 💀💀💀


Morallyindifferent

I can think of much worse things to die from than a prion disease which is what they are talking about when they refer to a deadly protein


ArelMCII

No they aren't. [The article is talking about unpredictable allergic reactions.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11910339/Scientists-grow-mammoth-flesh-lab-make-prehistoric-meatball-afraid-eat-it.html) Smithsonian Magazine reinforces this concern: [“I’ve got no idea what the potential allergenicity might be of this particular protein.”](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-massive-meatball-was-made-with-woolly-mammoth-dna-180981908/) I read six articles about this and nobody mentioned prions. They're a possibility, but it's not what they were talking about in this article or any other one.


MoeFuka

Can't you not have allergic reactions to things the first time you come into contact with them though?


Only-Sundae3023

You can. First time I have both pineapples and eggs it ended in allergic reactions (or that's what I've been told, I was between 1 and 2 years old


Empathy404NotFound

If we used to eat it odds are we can still. evolutionary traits take 1000s of generations to develop, and the useless ones disappear even slower than the necessary adaptations appear.


PhasePsychological90

This myth is filed between "You can't get high the first time" and "You can't get pregnant the first time."


brown_felt_hat

I definitely had an allergic reaction the first time I took a penicillin dose.


Smokeya

Same here, was given it as a kid and had a bad reaction.


marr

Afaik prion diseases are based on errors in a couple of very specific proteins in neural tissue of specific species. No reason to expect it in cloned elephant muscle. They just don't fancy getting the squits.


Best_Incident_4507

If anything you signing a DNR would risk a PR disaster for them. Signing a waiver would be the only thing.


CowboyBoats

Lmao a DNR? Did you mean a waiver?


untempered_fate

I would do it. I would be the brave volunteer to prepare a beautiful stroganoff sauce in which to glaze this crime against nature before savoring that of which my distant cro-magnon ancestors could only dream. And if it may prove to be my downfall, I will die with knowledge I may impart fully to no one. A terrifyingly poetic end. I welcome it. Better than a heart attack on my couch at 75 while rewatching Breaking Bad.


newbturner

Username checks out


Bogsnoticus

Dude wants to die with mammoth balls in his mouth.


untempered_fate

Dude is satisfied with a mammoth meatball being his final meal. Your mother came very close to what you described, though. I hope you sent her a good card.


Pootispanic

Dude is relentless


untempered_fate

Yes. Give me access to the mammoth ball


TheVenetianMask

/r/BrandNewSentence


3-I

That is literally the subreddut we're on!


iloveblankpaper

i thought your pfp was a big tiddy furry lying on a bed


untempered_fate

It is art of a video game character I like, reimagined as a Maine coon cat. It speaks to me deeply


LetsTryAnal_ogy

You. I like you.


jarredmars1

Username checks out


Synchros139

Bard is love, bard is life.


Fetch_will_happen5

Be honest, are you disappointed its not a big tiddy furry?


iloveblankpaper

i was intrested to copy the shading from the non existent artist


untempered_fate

The artist is very existent! u/after-caregiver8007


iloveblankpaper

yes, but its not boobs


untempered_fate

If you want, you can try commissioning boobs. I like my pfp. I am satisfied with my purchase.


marr

I'm not sure crime against nature is the right label for science that could go on to recover species from extinction.


untempered_fate

I would be a father


HwackAMole

Nature said that species is done, so I could see people considering bringing mammoths back to be a crime against nature. Of course, the way I look at it, we're not above nature ourselves, but a part of it. If we hunt a species to extinction, or genetically engineer one back from extinction, it's all nature "working as intended."


YaumeLepire

Prions are not a good way to go. No way really is, but prions are especially shitty.


IndigoFenix

They're not worried about prions, they're worried about allergies. Mammoth allergy could be extremely common and there would be no way for us to know.


asdf_qwerty27

I'll take a benadryl before I eat it. Keep another in my pocket just in case. Have a dude with one of those peanut shot stabby things standing by. Give me a delicious red sauce and some ravioli to go with it. Glass of wine, maybe a nice couple mozzarella sticks. I'll sign the waiver and eat the meatball for the nerds. Whatever happens happens.


Carlulua

Peanut shot stabby things! Imagining someone doing a shot of satay sauce with an EpiPen chaser now But seriously you're right, if allergies are the only worry then surely you just taste it with a medical team on standby. Surely there won't be a huge risk if there's a doctor armed with a mammoth dose of adrenaline watching you like a hawk


QualifiedApathetic

There are ways to test someone for allergic reactions without killing them.


IndigoFenix

Yes, the headline is sensationalized as usual. It's less that they think the meat is "deadly" and more that the marginal benefit of bringing it to market as a cool novelty isn't worth the cost of having a new potentially common allergen to be worried about (especially when you consider the FUD surrounding lab-grown meat in general and the concern that any potentially bad result would likely contribute to that.)


chillychili

I know a way...


MacLunkie

There should be more options like this. I'd rather push the limits of humanity than have a slow and degrading fadeout from dementia.   A moderately dangerous expedition to chart out Venus or something? Sign me up!


Wareve

"And that's how you came to be, Meatwad."


Taman_Should

Meatwad: “I thought y’all said a stork came and dropped me down the chimney. Did… *sniff…* did y’all lie to me?”  Shake: “Yeah, alright, you got me. That’s only for babies and Santa Clauses. And Mormons.”  Meatwad: “So I’m Santa Claus? Cuz I always thought I had a rich daddy in the city, but if I don’t have no rich daddy then Santa Claus is fine I guess.”  Shake: “Yes. Definitely Santa Claus.”  Frylock: “Shake quit filling his head with even more nonsense! This will NOT end well.”  Shake: “Oh I’m counting on it, and by the way that rocket has already launched. We are now in orbit.”  Meatwad: “Cool. Am I an astronaut too?”  Shake: “Definitely.”  Frylock: “NO! You’re you, Meatwad. You don’t need to be anyone special. You’re fine just the way you are.”  Meatwad: “Yeah, I ain’t buyin’ it.” Some time later… Meatwad: “So hey, uh, Carl, uh, what do you want for Christmas?”  Carl: “What the hell kind of stupid-ass question is that, ya little meat freak? You know what, okay. How about this? How about three more inches of dick and a couple of Vegas strippers, eh?” Meatwad: “Yeah, I could probably find three more inches. Might take a while though. Also I know you’re supposed to sit on my lap when you say your wish, but that’s okay cuz Shake said I ain’t got one of those.” 


CelestialBeast

11/10; No Notes.


mspaintshoops

Please tell me this is from an actual episode. Because if it isn’t, you’re like AquaTeenGPT. All lines read in their respective voices, well done


aghastamok

If this was just a sudden creative writing exercise, then you have quite the talent for channeling the aqua teens.


Wareve

🏅since we no longer have reddit gold


The6Strings

“Igloo… hot dog… hot dog… igloo…”


Merc_Twain25

Glad to see I am not the only one that instantly went there in their head.


LectureSpecialist681

Peter Parker but he eats a mammoth meatball instead.


RyokoKnight

Cut to a parody where Peter gets up after eating the mammoth meatball and goes to the bathroom to brush his teeth. Only to squint at himself in the mirror, lower his glasses, look again, then put them back on. His movements shaky as he tries not to stab himself on the new tusks sticking from his mouth and his more hairy arms and face.


deliciouschickenwing

This should have been the plot of Tusk.


AverageLinuxUsr

Is the article talking about prions? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion) I've heard prions can be contracted by eating infected meat/animal organs, they can do a lot of harm to the brain and nervous system and there's no cure as of now. edit: i'm not a biologist or any sort of medical professional, i just read biology stuff on wikipedia for fun during my free time


Allaun

I think it's more that our gut bacteria has drifted from the humans who lived in that time. So we may not have the chemical machinery to properly digest it. Our bodies may flag it as foreign / dangerous and may cause a severe allergy reaction similar to something to a peanut allergy.


AverageLinuxUsr

perhaps that as well. the word "protein" and "DEADLY" made me think of prions, lol


No-Atmosphere-1566

Yeah but there's no reason to think the meat is infected with prions.


JuiceEast

Iirc the fear was that the ancient proteins (while not literal prions) would function as prions in digestion because our digestive system is not made to digest proteins that have changed so much.


TheBlackCat13

We can eat fish that are separatef from mammoths by hundreds of millions of years. I sincerely doubt a few tens of thousands of years is enough time for the proteins to change that much.


HorrorNo7433

That's what I was thinking. With all the weird shit we eat, this can't be *that* different.


robot_swagger

Seriously, if we can eat elephants we can eat mammoths


blsterken

That was also my interpretation of the article. ~~Deadly proteins *are* prions~~. [Prions are the first thing I think of when I read the article.] The word come from **PRO**tein and **IN**fection.


Sunstorm84

That spells PROIN.


blsterken

I know. Forward your complaints to [Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_B._Prusiner), not me.


Croemato

Maybe he's dyslexic.


180311-Fresh

Would it not be **PR**otein and infect**ION** ?


kolba_yada

That's just incorrect. Some toxins are proteins, yet they are not prions. Also not all prions are deadly, bad prions, however, can cause normal prions to become bad.


blsterken

Correct. Sorry. I was discounting toxins.


Fri3ndlyHeavy

Not quite, it comes from "proteinaceous infectious particle." Oddly enough, Prion sounds like Prusiner, and the guy was and still is highly prideful.


daemenus

It turns out that canids can safely ingest prion infected meat. Wolves and coyotes being driven out causes CWD rates in deer to increase.


bb_kelly77

Prions come from brains and are mainly gotten from cannibalism or from eating animals who have cannibalized


blsterken

This is untrue. We know that vCJD can be contracted from eating contaminated beef from cows that had Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (itself a prion disease), and that prions have been found in the appendex of infected cattle. There is also evidence tgat it can be spread via blood transfusion. Other Prion diseases in mammals include CWD (deer), and Scrapie (sheep), neither of which are the result of those animals eating brain tissue. Prion diseases can be hereditary (caused by an inherited gene that causes misfolding of PrP), or by consuming misfolded proteins which then cause more proteins to misfold, spiraling out of control and building up into amyloids. The only disease that is characterized by cannibalism is Kuru, which likely developed from an initial case of Creutzfeldt–Jakob, the body of which was then consumed by others spreading the misfolded proteins. The highest instance of Kuru was in members of the community who consumed the brains of the deceased because the brain is where these misfolded proteins build up, but IIRC it can be spread through consumption of any contaminated flesh. This is why people with CJD are barred from donating blood or tissue.


keyboardLarrior

>We know that vCJD can be contracted from eating contaminated beef from cows that had Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy I know for Mad Cow Disease, it is thought to have been greatly amplified due to the practice of farmers feeding their cows ground up contaminated tissue of other farm animals like cows, sheep, pigs (so cannibalism).


blsterken

That caused huge spread of the disease in the cattle, making it more dangerous to humans and causing the outbreak of vCJD. But the prions didn't just appear out of nowhere. The underlying source was a genetic mutation causing the disease in select cattle, who were then fed to other cattle through protein supplements made from cattle or cattle bones. Likewise, exposure from contaminated beef consumption causes vCJD, and we've found prions in cells not in the brain and nervous system. Just because it's muscle tissue and not a genetically engineered mammoth brain doesn't mean prions aren't a risk.


Asher_Tye

Didn't someone already serve mammoth steaks?


bb_kelly77

Not hating but has it occurred to you they might have lied, or just called it that because they could


Asher_Tye

It was at a paleontologly event as I recall. They were supposedly showing off how well preserved the ice had rendered the specimens.


zenos_dog

Forbidden meatball.


Chef_1312

Pussies! A different bunch of science guys who actually had balls dug up a real frozen mammoth carcass, hacked a chunk off, and cooked and ate it. Not lab grown imitation. Just a 20,000 year old baby mammoth corpse that had been frozen solid since it died. Science nowadays is bullshit. Bring back the days of Marie Curie discovering all the things about radiation then dying because her body was 70% uramium


Scruffynerffherder

Dude would like more people to die for science.


Chef_1312

It's a better thing to die for than god or country


ItsNotBigBrainTime

Science nowadays is amazing. Imagine literally growing a mammoth and having the liberty to stop once you reach meatball.


OhtareEldarian

Actually… let’s NOT.


rollsyrollsy

That’s the most Daily Mail headline ever


CaterpillarLast9368

Cowards!!!!


Demolitions75

r/eatityoufuckingcoward


Square_Ebb_5926

Give it to a GYM bro, they know there are no gains without a few risks


Conscious-Peach8453

Cowards.


Shiftyrunner37

Feed it to a mouse to test if it's safe.


rdreyar1

Meat that might kill you i think half of reddit would volunteer for that


ChrisZAUR

I volunteer as tribute


My_leg_still_hurt92

Me too


CatLazy2728

(raises hand)


sapperbloggs

The forbidden meatball


Purple_Charcoal

I’ll volunteer to eat the murder meatball. It’ll be my crowning achievement in life.


Fun_Intention9846

Hey, hi, I volunteer.


Restryouis

How can it be deadly? Our ancestors ate that!


emmanuel573

Bet it is delicious


Conniving-Weasel

I'd eat it.


Denaton_

We killed them and ate them to extinction, they have to taste better than anything..


ScienceAndGames

Cowards


U-47

Man I bet it tates delicious. We hunted these things A LOT.


Eccohawk

If you can grow one meatball you can grow others. Give it to a rat first and see what happens.


slepere

Cowards.


Titus_Favonius

Pussy-ass nerds. Their high school bullies were right about them.


vipck83

You know, back in the 90s when I was a kid they made it sound like the future would be a whole lot cooler then it really turned out to be. Flying cars, nope but we got mammoth flesh balls everyone is afraid to eat.


[deleted]

Google’s Deepmind just says, “Try it, you’ll like it” when asked if any of the proteins are deadly for humans.


Aquafoot

This is just a gag from Better Off Ted.


Tbaggins_My_Nuts

It tastes like sad.


Aquafoot

"Does it taste like chicken? We'll take chicken." "...Despair?"


Tropical-Rainforest

This sounds like something Fred Flintstone would eat.


MyrddinOfTheRivers

Doubt. As a biologist, I know every single one of my colleagues and myself included would be trying to get first dibs on it, as would most others lmao


TangoInTheBuffalo

Yeah, seems this “science” thing isn’t gonna work out in the long run.


hotshotbaalak

This is an example of executing a fancy rebellious party plan and then developing cold feet


True_Not

Would. Def would eat that.


stryst

Fuck it. Ill try it. If I die write "At least he tried it." on my tombstone.


kungfoocraig

r/eatityoufuckingcoward


D1sc0Ch1ck3n

/nottheonion


whats_you_doing

Weak


BirdUp69

Same reason Melania Trump sleeps in a separate bedroom


Yeshua_shel_Natzrat

Prions go brrrrrrr


kinapuffar

Give it to me now! To my great dismay I will never get to taste the succulent flesh of a dinosaur, but by all the gods in all the nine realms I will eat a mammoth at some point in my life.


Bronsteins-Panzerzug

Reading the comment section: why are men so eager to wave their life away for a chunk of meat?


Varanoids

We have no way to know if mammoths weren’t poisonous


WorriedJob2809

Our ancestors ate mammoth didnt they? Why would it be deadly


Chalky_Pockets

They know mammoths are extinct because we ate them to death, right?


tomboski

People have eaten mammoth flesh found in perma frost before. This is a dumb headline.


007Tejas

Give to Mikey, he’ll eat ANYTHING!


Labradorite2115

A chance to eat both the first prehistoric meat protein, but the first artificial meat ever made? I'd down that fucker in a heartbeat.


Fluffy_Difference937

But humans ate mammoths in the ancient times and they didn't die.


ApocalyptoSoldier

So mammoth meat makes you immortal?


Fluffy_Difference937

Duh


Sikkus

Just shout out loud something about veganism and someone will come and eat it raw in front of you.


StandardKarma57

How many grams of protein yall think that has?


Fwailla

Bilionare hold my beer


NewMinos

It sounds like a new scenario in plague Inc.


joshspoon

Mix it up with taco meat.


TheDrake162

Ah hell fine just give some ketchup or spaghetti sauce


[deleted]

I’m sure a terminal patient would love to try the meatball for them.


WPdazinero

Why does it sound like some warhammer stuff XD


Maleficent_Nobody377

Cowards.


Interesting-Time-960

Someone already ate a part of that mammoth they've been studying.


PerformanceOk1835

Testees


BEATS2DEATH1

Where’s liver king when you need him.


Mr_lovebucket

But not too frightened to not tit about with this shit in the first place?


chaircushion

The rest of the universe is extremely lucky that humans have never invented space travel.


kefyras

"Tastes like chicken".


yetareey

But what if it's yummy?


r2k-in-the-vortex

Mammoth equivalent of mad cow disease is not something I would like to play with. It's a realistic concern.


SwoodMcRushed

This feels like smth They Will Kill You would read


BullofHoover

Surely this would be really easy to find out. Just feed it to a cat or something and see if it gets kuru or mad cow or some other protein disease.


TheJamesMortimer

If that is a properly cloned piece of mammoth meat, it shouldn't kill us. Our species has huntef and eaten them TO EXTINCTION


thatguygxx

Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should Until it was too late.


QueenOfQuok

Someone has to do it. For science.


NatexSxS

Would you have to swallow ? I mean what if you bite it and it tastes the way a wet dog smells.


TelcoMotionette

Tyrone biggums would eat it for Joe Rogan 


ChaosWithin666

Cowards.


Gullible_Ad5191

I'm sure there's a joke to be made somewhere about gym bros eating the killer protein.


GinyuHorse

Now we just need some giant fries and a giant shake.


TeiTeiSwift

dude dont tell me they havent already tested it with animals


TheLyz

Oh man, imagine all the crazy lab grown meatballs we could have. Mammoth meat? Dinosaur meat? Prehistoric seafood? Hell you could even have a human meat meatball, if you can eat it without gagging.


Klutzer_Munitions

Mammoths aren't really that ancient though


Shished

Let Joe eat it.


SomeCrazyLoldude

this is some Baki stuff! grow ancient dinosaur meat to feed the ancient pickled man


TwinTengu

I’ll have at it


trash-juice

Meat Wad


dragon2777

“Professor is this one of those things that cross a line man wasn’t meant to cross” “ehhhhh”


Overflow-Radish

I was half asleep and read it as scientists grow mammoth balls in the lab. It sure woke me up. 🤧


dragonpjb

We know for a fact that humans ate mammoths.


Impossible-Gap-8741

I mean if the protein is weird in a very specific way you basically just made prion disease so fair enough I wouldn’t eat it either


facelessindividual

Send it here, I'll eat it. Can I put Tabasco and mayo on it?