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The 1906 book The Jungle described a common tactic of using sawdust as an ingredient in sausages, used as cheap filler. People would seem to be eating well, but would still be undernourished. This book helped create the US FDA, which banned such practices.
I wonder if a tasteless filler without
calories should be allowed. Perhaps sawdust is a poor choice, but there must be some industrial product that can't be digested yet doesn't cause harm. This could be used as a diet product -allowing for filling, low-cal foods without too much reduction in flavor.
(?) Arbocel® Powdered Cellulose
http://jrs.venux.ne...ations/pet_food.vml
"indigestible raw fiber content of 98%" - I think this is what you're looking for. Except, of course, it's intended for dogfood. [DrCurry, Aug 08 2006]
Tasti D Lite
http://www.tastidlite.com/pages/faq.html
Main ingredient: air. Read the "What is Overrun?" FAQ [Worldgineer, Aug 08 2006]
Stone diet
Seals_20do_20it_2e_...lets_20eat_20stones
Hey might work and wont hurt... really... [madness, Aug 09 2006]
the nutritional value of lettuce
http://www.nutritio...ts-001-02s01wq.html
7.2 calories per serving [jutta, Aug 10 2006]
Miracle Noodle (konjac-mannan pasta)
http://www.miraclenoodle.com/
Zero calories, pure soluble fiber. [jutta, Oct 03 2006]
Oh look, truth is ahead of fiction.
http://shine.yahoo....food-200000107.html
Number 3 is wood (cellulose) [ye_river_xiv, Mar 09 2012]
food adulteration in the Victorian era
http://books.google...v=onepage&q&f=false
..care of Karl Marx, of all people... [not_morrison_rm, Mar 12 2012]
Cellulose
http://www.ukfoodguide.net/e460.htm
Also called E460, it's commonly used in human food. [Voice, Mar 13 2012]
Wood Cheese
http://www.bloomber...penne-could-be-wood
To serve on your sausages. [Worldgineer, Feb 18 2016]
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Rusk is used as filler in cheap sausages. Soya protein is used in cheap hamburgers. Admittedly, neither is taste-free, and they do have some caloric value. |
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One sawdust and stone pizza, please. |
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Commonly referred to as "fairy food," in science fiction at least. |
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This is what they stick all those products like Tasti D Llite. It's certainly tasteless (yech!). |
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Look on the back of a package of shredded cheese. The ingredient that prevents the cheese sticking together is cellulose. |
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Perfect, [DrC]. But what's a Tasti D Llite? |
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Ah, found it. It's filled with air. |
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Something used in food just to make up room, which has no nutritional value at all - what is used in Mcdonalds? |
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Tasti D Lite is something that looks like ice cream, tastes like cardboard, and has every woman under 30 in Manhattan addicted to it. |
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Bun... These would of course be properly labeled this time, right? |
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Put yeast in the sausage. As it's baked, it will expand, giving you a giant sausage with the same amount of meat. |
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Stone might work --- and hey seals do it... |
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Seals also bark madly and some hold their breath for upwards of half an hour. We should all do that too. |
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[mad] Aren't seals kind of fat? |
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Yeah, but the delicious little pups are worth every calorie. Mmmmm... |
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I have it on good authority that seal tastes gross, as does cormorant and seagull. |
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Not like albatros, spotted owl, bald eagle and walrus at all. |
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Good idea...but it will probably end up causing cancer. I waiting to hear that about Tasti D Lite. |
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You know lettuce has no nutritional value, and its sort of used as a "filler". Maybe that seemingly useless veggie can be enhanced? I think it is time for a face lift. |
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Hmmm I recomend an epxoy resin for that job --- it will probably accept lettice as a filler and will bond nicely to your face... |
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Think talcum powder might work better as the filler though. You could just put a light dusting over the areas that need a lift and then apply the resin to bond, seal and make it all shinny. |
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Not that kind of filler, [mad]. Though I'm betting whatever's in Miracle Noodle will work for either job. |
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By the way, great link [jutta]. I think they have my basic idea thought out - just add it to other products to reduce their caloric values. |
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"It's bloody albatros flavor!" Sorry,
someone had to say it. Thanks 2 fries for
the inspiration. |
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In some european countries, after the first world war, with food shortages, and stuff, the bakers used to substitute sawdust for flour, this is no shit. |
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"So I'll have the whole grain high-top with blue-gum flavour, and do you stock bloodwood flavour?" |
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Since sawdust would not "bake" in the typical sense, does this in fact make them "halfbakers"? |
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It may turn out that sawdust might have been one of the lesser harmful additives in comparision to Olestra, Partially Hydrogenated X oil, Sodium Earthebate (whatever that is), etc. |
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I voted against, but It's only me. |
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I am thinking that toasted pecan sawdust might have a great flavor for sausages. Seriously. I am getting hungry thinking about it. |
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It was in the news a year ago that Taco Bell uses up to 40%
"filler" in their "meat". I don't know anyone who lost weight
eating it though. |
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Well, filler isn't necessarily low-cal. Traditionally,
the cheapest meatless sausages -- cheaper even
than minced organs -- are made with blood. IIRC
there was a West-German chancellor whose hobby
was inventing new recipes for blood sausage. |
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<edit> Helmut Kohl, apparently. According to the
Goethe Institute, the traditional German food he
inflicted on visiting heads of state was actually
witty and ironic, but nobody got the joke except
Jacques Chirac. |
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where it all began see link to Das Capital. See all that tedious reading of the actual book (in English, admittedly) in my student days served some purpose...sort of... |
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//Taco Bell uses up to 40% "filler" in their "meat"//
It was vice versa - 64% filler. |
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The "filler" is the safe part to eat. It's the meat part that is toxic and gives you cancer according to the World Health Organisation. |
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If everything you eat contains sawdust you will soon
become board. |
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//It's the meat part that is toxic and gives you
cancer// |
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[xen], if you're a good baker I'll give you a new
soapbox for Christmas. Your old one is wearing out. |
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The problem with with using fillers in sausages is that
you would still need the same amount of (if not
more) fat to give a good mouthfeel and flavour. |
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[Max] So you've tried this? That mouthfeel you're experiencing
are splinters. |
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I agree with everyone - it saves so much time. |
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Except for bastards taking sawdust away from baby
termites, to put in human food. |
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You could put the baby termites in there with the
sawdust. |
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The stuff with sawdust in it actually tastes like sawdust, so I don't see how they're making money on it. |
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Because it tastes better than some American food? |
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To be fair, not all American food is bland, tasteless, textureless uninspiring sludge seemingly produced by blending cellulose, salt and high-fructose corn syrup. |
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Then again, probably not all members of the SS were arrogant, brutal, xenophobic anti-semitic goose-stepping bullies. |
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Anyone who's ever suffered Taco Bell's "refried beans", an alleged comestible made from recycled wall insulation, will most likely agree. |
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