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You're right a lot of things has benefited from rebranding. For example instead of 'cow feet juice', it's now Jello.
by leptoniscool 6y ago
You're right a lot of things has benefited from rebranding.
For example instead of 'cow feet juice', it's now Jello.
- TheMagicHorsey 6y agoOMG! This is the worst TIL of my entire life. I eat a shameful amount of Jello as an adult, and I did not know this!
- throwaway316943 6y agoIt’s good for you
- hh3k0 6y agoI'd argue that cow feet are best for cows.
- Spooky23 6y agoIf people didn’t eat cows or drink milk, they’d be like most other large ruminants... extinct.
- ashtonkem 6y agoBeing selected as a food species for a more successful species is a classic example of the conundrum of evolution; it’s great for the species and pretty bad for the individual.
- MisterTea 6y agoThey don't need them after they've been sent to the market.
- taneq 6y agoIf it makes you feel better it's often pig feet, and sometimes various knees. Also, gelatin is in EVERYTHING. Good luck eating virtually any dessert if you're a strict vegetarian.
- dashundchen 6y agoAs someone who eats plant based, that is definitely not the case in the US. Gelatin is very easy to avoid. Outside of jello itself, the common desserts that contain it are chewy candies and some mousse type desserts. So canolli, mousse, and flan frequently have gelatin, along with things like Starbursts and some chewing gums, but other than that I have not found it to be a common ingredient.
- taneq 6y agoWeird... In Australia (last I checked at least, maybe it's changed) it's commonly in chocolate, ice cream, and any kind of soft sweet, to the point where it's nigh impossible to get any of the above without it.
- worker767424 6y ago> chocolate Definitely not in anything like a bar of chocolate. > ice cream Oddly, this seems to vary a lot by country. It's rare in the US, though. Guar gum is common, though.
- interestica 6y agoDo they still use horse parts for the glue that keeps the boxes shut?
- brailsafe 6y agoI hope so, horses are terrifying.
- scythe 6y agoYou know, it's kind of funny. Horses might have a better argument than any other animal for being the natural predator of humans. Specifically, nomadic depredations on preindustrial societies comprised armies with a proportionally small number of humans and a large number of horses pillaging towns and cities full of horseless humans. In 13th-century Asia, the average horse probably had a better life than the average human. The same thing happened shortly after the horse was (re)introduced to North America in the sixteenth century; settled agricultural societies were quickly overrun by horse-riding nomads.
- masklinn 6y agoHopefully, what else are you going to do with hooves and bones otherwise, throw them away? That's wasteful! (in reality there's almost no chance, synthetic glues are way easier to manufacture and manage, outside of gelatin animal glues would near-only be used for restoration or specialty applications e.g. some lutherie and other speciality woodworking)
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago'Terra Preta'
- legerdemain 6y agoNo, but there are plenty of horse parts in red wine.
- worker767424 6y ago
- JTbane 6y agoluckily there are alternatives if you are vegan, such as agar and pectin
- throwawgler87 6y agoAnyone know if gelatin causes extra animals to be killed? If not, you probably could feel okay about it.
- WalterSear 6y agoEverything that increases the profit of a system, by being a revenue source or even just reducing the cost of the process, contributes to the system. Yes, animals are being killed and ground up to make gelatin.
- CobrastanJorji 6y agoWell, maybe. By finding a valuable use for an otherwise unused part of the animal, you're increasing the value of raising and slaughtering animals, and increasing the value of something usually encourages more of it. But it's more interesting than that because the main market is for the meat, and if the availability of meat were to decrease because it's not as profitable, one would expect the price to go back up a bit, which would in turn encourage more production.
- yholio 6y agoThat's a strange way to frame it. Reducing waste will allow farmers to cover more of the production costs using non-meat revenue. In a competitive market, this will push them to lower the price of meat, stimulating its consumption, and increasing the number of animals, which in turn will lead to economies of scale, lower costs and prices, even higher demand and even more animals.
- barrkel 6y agoYou don't know the elasticity of demand for the non-meat parts. Parent was hypothesising that the demand for it might be inelastic so the price would go up. Further, a lower price for meat may stimulate demand but it will more likely suppress production rather than increase it. It depends on the costs of raising the animals and the opportunity costs of the farmers. Excess profit is what generally attracts competition and more production. Lower prices are not normally associated with larger profits. Only a few "markets" are much different; e.g. oil, gas, etc. There's two sides to every price setting action, supply and demand. The current price is where they cross now, so the shapes of the respective curves aren't necessarily clear.
- TylerE 6y agoRapeseed -> Canola
- mv4 6y agoPatagonian toothfish -> Chilean sea bass
- arcticbull 6y agoSlimehead -> Orange Roughy
- 29athrowaway 6y agoFraud -> Subprime mortgage crisis Theft -> Quantitative Easing
- SAI_Peregrinus 6y agoBank Fraud -> Identity Theft
- chihuahua 6y agoBank robbery -> Undocumented withdrawal
- hjek 6y agoalligator pear → avocado
- jcims 6y agoOoh, that one went the wrong way imho
- rpastuszak 6y agoOr rather: testicles -> alligator pear
- legerdemain 6y agoBut in actual reality: edible testicles -> mountain oysters.
- rpastuszak 6y ago(nahuatl) ahuakatl (testicles) -> (ES) aguacate -> (ES, EN) avocado Source: https://www.etymonline.com/word/avocado https://www.etymonline.com/word/avocado
- _tom_ 6y agoDolphin Fish -> Mahi Mahi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi-mahi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi-mahi
- Turing_Machine 6y agoDog salmon or chum salmon -> "keta" salmon, or "silverbrite" salmon.
- LinuxBender 6y agoCrushed parasitic beetles -> Starbucks strawberry drink [1] [1] - https://inhabitat.com/starbucks-admits-its-strawberry-drinks-are-colored-with-crushed-parasitic-beetles/ https://inhabitat.com/starbucks-admits-its-strawberry-drinks...
- Jedd 6y agoI suppose by some definitions, this beetle is a parasite, but it feeds from a specific species of cactus, which makes it a herbivore, so in the context of a story ostensibly alerting starbucks customers (and if you're a starbucks customer you've probably got deeper ethical issues to introspect on) it's an odd adjective. Aside - tracts of Australia, and doubtless elsewhere, have a major problem with the cactus that was introduced specifically to feed these beetles -- Opuntia aurantiaca, aka tiger pear. A cousin of the better known (and edible-fruiting) prickly pear, this one has smaller pads, grows only about 30-50cm high, but has much fiercer spikes, propagates way more easily, and the biological controls (cochineal beetle) are woefully less effective than, say, the Cactoblastis moth that's used to control prickly pear. Back to cochineal - for a very long time it was one of the very few ways to produce a reliable, consistent, persistent red dye. The incidence of anaphylactic shock and similarly strong reactions to cochineal, while non-zero, is tremendously low. Artificial dyes also have some non-trivial health concerns [0], and some manufacturers are moving back to cochineal for this reason. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=artificial+red+coccine+dye+health+effects https://www.google.com/search?q=artificial+red+coccine+dye+h...
- jacobolus 6y ago
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoHalf-digested plant cum, vomited out by insects = honey
- mirekrusin 6y agoCaviar vs fish babies.
- MS-DDOS 6y agoHN has been devovling into Reddit for a while now. Smh.
- dang 6y agoPlease see the last paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, including the links there.
- yongjik 6y agoWouldn't call it a successful rebranding. Cow feet soup is positively delicious (and rather expensive).
- ryanisnan 6y agoYou're missing the point. Cow feet soup might be positively delicious, but from a North American standpoint (and probably most western cultures), it's not something people are lining up for.
- jacoblambda 6y agoI wouldn't necessarily say that, pig feet soups are extremely popular in the south, particularly in Cajun cuisine. It's not exactly the same but is rather similar. Almost everyone knows what it is and it doesn't both us that it is what it is despite being in NA.
- treeman79 6y agoChicken foot soup also tasty. Burritos with an actual foot inside of, well coworkers say it’s good.
- skissane 6y ago> but from a North American standpoint (and probably most western cultures), it's not something people are lining up for. I’m an Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent and I’ve always been keen to try “weird” foods. Never had cow feet soup, but sounds tasty. I’m sure I’m not the only Westerner with this attitude either
- yongjik 6y agoI think there's a sizable population of Koreans in Australia, so if you have access to a Korea town, try to find a restaurant with "gomtang" (thick broth soup) in its name (or something similar) - the cow feet soup is called "joktang" or "ujoktang". In case you're curious, they look like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=%EC%A1%B1%ED%83%95&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=%EC%A1%B1%ED%83%95&tbm=isch That said, they're an acquired taste, so you may think it's an overpriced sugar-free lump of Jello in greasy water... YMMV. :)
- thunkshift1 6y agoHold up.. what?
- WalterSear 6y agoJello is called jello because it's made from gelatin. Which was some poor cow's hooves, among other things.
- mirekrusin 6y agoSushi vs cold, dead fish.
- chiefalchemist 6y agovs _raw_ dead fish :)
- JoeAltmaier 6y agovs _cold_ _raw_ dead fish :)
- specialist 6y agoThe way I heard it: bait -> sushi
- DevKoala 6y agoTerrorism -> Antifacism
- ficklepickle 6y agoChicken periods -> eggs
- zests 6y agoNuclear MRI (NMRI) -> MRI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging
- PhantomGremlin 6y agoOnce upon a time there was a startup that made laser equipment. They called themselves Coherent Radiation. Hmmm ... for some reason they decided to rebrand themselves as Coherent, Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent,_Inc.
- chiefalchemist 6y agoAffordable Care Act > ObamaCare
- smm11 6y agoObamaCare > RomneyCare
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoChinese Gooseberry -> Kiwi Fruit
- F_J_H 6y ago"Can I smoke while I pray" vs. "Can I pray while I smoke"
- elif 6y ago"cow feet juice" is actually a euphemism in itself. All kinds of connective tissue and meat plant scraps, as well as anything that grows in it during it's unrefrigerated transport and storage, go into gelatin.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoMost ancient: Bee(s) vomit -> Honey!
- ARandomerDude 6y agoCrossdresser -> transgender
- sizzle 6y agocoagulated cow puss --> cheese (got this one from "What The Health" documentary on Netflix)