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Edible books should be easy to make using a sort of cellulose pulp with some soy mixed in for nourishment, maybe even add some sugar.
If a nomadic soul has exausted his survival abilities in the great wilderness, this would make for a handy last resort.
Land Rover Edible Desert Survival Guide
http://theinspirati...ert-survival-guide/
[xaviergisz, Jun 17 2012]
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"Shit! A bear! On top of everything else, a bear! What do we do, Jim? What does the guidebook say?"
"Uhm, I'm afraid bear attacks were yesterday's lunch. All we've got left are snakebite cures and a list of edible mushrooms..." |
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You'll have to carry it in a plastic bag so that ambient moisture doesn't cause it to break down and become mushy. Let me tell you from experience, NOBODY likes to eat mushy paper. |
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Surely all paper quickly becomes mushy when introduced to the mouth? |
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Currently, books are made out of a sort of cellulose pulp. |
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the recipe page would of course be
inedible |
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I dunno, [xenzag]. If I only need enough energy to get over the hill to civilization, but I'm completely tired and there are no ingredients around to cook with, I am going to need that edible recipe page. |
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I like the idea of the forlorn traveller getting lost somewhere, being forced to eat his survival book, only to be presented with a situation (say, a plethora of wild mushrooms, or meeting a tribe of people with counter-intuitive (but well documented) cultural traditions) in which the book would have proved invaluable. |
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It gets a bun from me as long as in the desert island SOS chapter it clearly advises the removal of said beach sign before rescue. |
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Bungston made me laugh, but on the other hand, humans can't digest cellulose, so your survival book would kill people. Probably by constipation and malnutrition, simultaneously, which sounds rather a horrid way to go. I'll take my chances with the bear. |
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Might I suggest rice paper? Then you could make some really nice rolls with the wild mushrooms. |
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//NOBODY likes to eat mushy paper.// |
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So the mushroom chapter's off the menu then? |
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If you don't mind stiff pages you could print on matzos. I have heard of blind people reading matzos as brail and being offended by the contents. |
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//So the mushroom chapter's
off the menu then?// |
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It would be cool if the pages
had the essence of their
content absorbed into them. |
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"Mines the psylocybin please." |
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"Mike over there has broken
his wrist, give him the opium
poppy" |
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They did it! I can't believe it! Arrgh! |
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Yet another Halfbaker learns the tragedy of true genius: if
the idea is a really good one, eventually someone with a
huge R&D budget will bake it. |
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//...if the idea is a really good one, eventually someone with a huge R&D budget will bake it.// |
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That's not a tragedy, that's a blessing. Being credited as the inspiration would be nice though. |
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Baked back in the 80's, I still have the book somewhere in my loft, but I have never tried to eat it. Not sure how nutritious it would be now, but I understand it had been fortified with vitamins which must have degraded by now. Sorry Baked [-ve] |
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// blind people reading matzos as brail and being offended by the contents. |
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Yes, and the old Stevie Wonder joke, about him getting a cheesegrater for xmas and saying it was the most violent book he'd ever read.. |
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But, more seriously, norii (as in that flat seaweed), you could write on it with a vegetable paste, and use wasabi for punctuation/danger signs. Three large blobs of wasabi for do not eat the pufferfish. |
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