Good lord, even the name is disgusting! Why not just call it "Splorp" or "Bleaaaagh"?

Well, I tried some of their imitation chicken nuggets, and man, I didn't feel very good. I know I'm done eating this stuff! But come on, this is the year 2002, don't you want to be eating food grown in a VAT!?

I am puzzled by this article. Quorn is absolutely great. Almost everyone I know eats it, and I've never heard of any complaints.

Hey, easier on the environment, low in fat...I'm willing to try it no matter what the article says.

Quorn burgers are very nice. And a nation that can eat Twinkies can eat anything.

While I'd never eat this stuff (I'm convinced it leaked into our space-time from a Pohl / Kornbluth novel), I really don't think that making a few people sick is enough of a reason not to certify it: Milk products give many people gastric problems. Peanuts can outright kill those allergic to them. If you get the quorn queasies, just don't eat the stuff.

Of qourse: Stuff with quorn qontents should be qlearly labeled.

"But come on, this is the year 2002, don't you want to be eating food grown in a VAT!?"

Well, how about drinking beverages grown in a vat? We've been doing that for millenia, and those beverages all contain 5-20% of a toxic chemical that can and does cause death when consumed in large enough doses. In fact, some beverages undergo post-processing steps to concentrate those toxic byproducts of microorganisms' metabolisms.

This stuff quorn may or may not be good or healthy, but this whole "it's new, it's evil, it's going to kill us all" thing bugs me sometimes.

On the other hand, saying quorn is made from "diminutive mushrooms" is qurap!

Of course, any story broken by the raving lunatics at CSPI has a mighty steep curb of credibility to climb over. They were the same ones who were fulminating against movie popcorn a few years back, you may recall. Man, I was sure grateful for THAT expose! I quickly moved away from my all-movie-popcorn diet, and I feel much better for it. Thanks, CSPI!

One might ask why an organization with so few actual scientists on board seems to feel the need to trumpet the word "science" in its name. Maybe it's because "Center for Whiny Anal-retentive Joyless NaderNuts" doesn't get as much press?

Edited by author 08-13-2002 05:31 PM
quorn is made from Fusarium venenatum here not Fusarium gramineurum. i seached and a lot of people say gramineurum, did it change?

also, it doesn't make me sick, and it's tasty. :) (it's not a mushroom though)

one time a hamburger made me throw up. hamburgers, the original vomit-burger!

I liked Quorn. I used to eat lots of it. It's been very widely available in the UK for over ten years. It's tasty and healthier than meat. But it eating it will make me ill, not because of the "mycoprotein", but because of the milk and eggs in it. Milk and eggs make me sick. No more stilton or fried egg and chips for me.

Some people are physically intolerant to some foods, it happens.