A curiously repulsive blend of cellulose fibres and sugars, in a spreadable form. Tasteless, yet filling. Spread on bread or toast, it tastes just like a mixture of shredded paper and sugar.

Served up in a container shaped like a printer, whenever you really, REALLY don't need it.

NB: This idea would not exist if (a) there wasn't a HB category Food:Office Supplies: Paper, and (b) Lexmark could make a printer that could print more than a dozen sheets without suffering a Total Reality Failure.
-- 8th of 7, Nov 18 2008

Nice category choice! Instruction_20Granules
Must be why my idea fell short... [theleopard, Nov 19 2008]

Do you appreciate the irony of this being a mixture of polysaccharides and di- or monosaccharides? Possibly even with the same monomer?
-- nineteenthly, Nov 18 2008


Yes.
-- 8th of 7, Nov 19 2008


//A curiously repulsive blend of cellulose fibres and sugars, in a spreadable form//

So just like soggy cornflakes then?
-- DrBob, Nov 19 2008


+ here's a cellulose bun to spread it on...gross but inventive idea. tasteless insures it's not a flavor!
-- xandram, Nov 19 2008


[+] As a matter of fact, I'm cursing at a Minolta Color laser printer right now because it's alternating between jamming the paper and smearing the ink on the sheets that it's letting through. So I guess I could have a bagel with paper jam or a smear.
-- theGem, Nov 19 2008


// Nice category choice! //

Well, you either got it, or you ain't ..... <collective sniggering/>
-- 8th of 7, Nov 19 2008


sick ;-)
-- blissmiss, Nov 20 2008


Thankyou.
-- 8th of 7, Nov 20 2008


I'm sure I've ingested some medicinal version of the final product... {Turns out to be 'Lactulose'}
-- Jinbish, Nov 21 2008


I'm pretty sure I had this once at a chow-hall at Ft. Stewart georgia. I ate it then, I'd eat it now.

[+]
-- MikeD, Nov 23 2008


//[...] a mixture of polysaccharides and di- or monosaccharides// I wish I did - could someone explain?
-- pertinax, Nov 24 2008


<sigh/>

Cellulose, the principal polymeric component of wood, and by derivation, paper, is a polysaccharide - a long chain of simple sugar molecules.

The "sugars" with which humans are familair in their diet are glucose, fructose, sucrose, lactose (mono- and di-saccharides) ... depending on their origin. Thus, "jam" is very rich in these sugars, the irony of the idea being that the cellulose in the paper is also a long-chain sugar. Thus this idea is also "sugar jam".

Any more biochemistry questions, don't hesitate to ask.
-- 8th of 7, Nov 24 2008


Thank you. (I'm assuming on etymological grounds that a monomer is a linear unit of which one, two or many would make up a mono-, di- or poly-saccharide).
-- pertinax, Nov 24 2008


Is biochemisrty in anyway related to biochemistry?
-- coprocephalous, Nov 24 2008


Yse it is.
-- pertinax, Nov 24 2008


High in fiber.
-- nick_n_uit, Nov 30 2008



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