From Abstruce Goose:
Mmmmm…
This makes me even more motivated to throw the Darwin Day Dinner Party idea I’ve had in my head for a couple years. Everyone brings something they cooked, complete with a list of all the recipes, and you map out everything you ate on a giant tree of life, trying to cover as many orders of life as possible. Then you can look in awe at how millions of years of evolution (and a couple thousand of years of artificial selection) resulted in delicious food that’s now sitting in your belly.
That, and we can always use one more excuse to drink beer – have to represent the yeast!
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Michael Hoffman
February 9, 2011 at 5:21 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
If you haven’t seen it yet, you’ll probably also like this study from the Annals of Improbable Research:
Alan Eckert
February 9, 2011 at 5:39 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
You can add bacteria to that convergence because they are required for digestion.
dummyaccount
February 9, 2011 at 5:46 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
test comment nom nom nom
J. Mark
February 9, 2011 at 5:56 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
The main reason I used to believe in God was BLTs….add some avocado to that would ya please….
mike
February 9, 2011 at 6:29 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Mmmmmmmmm Phylum Feast aaaaaaaaahhh. I proposed once proposed a contest for the most phylums phylae phlyli? in a food. Of course, ungulates dominate most of our foods, but that’s because they are soooooo tasty.
SkeptimusPrime
February 9, 2011 at 6:58 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
This is awesome, I should print this out and put it on my refrigerator to remind me to eat more BLTs.
Katie Hartman
February 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“…trying to cover as many orders of life as possible.”D’aw, vegans lose. :(
Gus Snarp
February 9, 2011 at 7:33 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
mmmmm. Bacon. Droooooolllllll.
Noelley B
February 9, 2011 at 7:53 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
A Jen-hosted atheist potluck? I can think of a few ladies I know who show up for that who would never go to an atheist meet at a bar.You could do it in a park this summer, and people with kids could come.
SpitefulFox
February 9, 2011 at 7:54 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Pigs: The magical miracle animal.
jen
February 9, 2011 at 8:15 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
go for it!
Sam Barnett-Cormack
February 9, 2011 at 9:31 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
add some blue cheese, get bacteria in the mix too…
Joebiohorn
February 9, 2011 at 11:41 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Your party idea reminds me of one held for a fellow graduate student on successful defense of his thesis. He had studied, among other things, an enzyme the he obtained from chicken livers purchased at a supermarket. At he party, we were served, among other things, a nice chicken liver pate. Our professor interrupted the celebration to say that there was one more question for the defense. He handed the student the recipe for the pate and asked “What’s the specific activity for your enzyme at each step in this recipe?”
Sam Barnett-Cormack
February 9, 2011 at 11:58 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
You call them ‘defences’ in the states? Here’s it’s still a ‘viva voce’ (‘living voice’), generally called a viva (pronounced, usually, ‘vie-ver’, rather than the more appropriate to the Latin – or modern latinate languages – ‘vee-va’).
Hans
February 10, 2011 at 2:47 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
What is the LCA of the BLT? Now that’s a thesis topic…
Steve Caldwell
February 10, 2011 at 3:33 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
You could add some low-lactose milk products to the menu. Although you won’t be ingesting archaea bacteria, you would be eating food products that are produced with Pyrococcus enzymes:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A…And I suppose you could add beans to the menu and let the methanogen archaea bacteria in the human gut trumpet their presence to the world.
Daniel Schealler
February 10, 2011 at 4:03 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
If you want to make a BLT from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Charly
February 10, 2011 at 11:09 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
If there is any vinegar in the food, bacteria are necesarry to prduce it .
Sam Barnett-Cormack
February 10, 2011 at 12:19 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Well, that’s taken care of by the mayo, then – the picture needs the mayo to go back to vinegar, going back to whatever-fruit-or-grain-you-choose and yeast and bacteria…
ScottInAL
February 10, 2011 at 2:53 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Agreed! BLATs are even better!
mike
February 10, 2011 at 3:26 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
nice
Carla
February 11, 2011 at 10:24 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
My favorite BLT in the Seattle area, and it’s not to far from UDub is in Madison Park at Scoup De Jour, PLUS bonus they have ice cream. the bacon is fried to order per sandwich and it’s simply delightful. Here’s a yelp link.http://www.yelp.com/biz/scoop-…
Leonard Andrew Spencer
February 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Sure, but all that really matters is the margin. The winner’s going to be the first one willing to make some of the bacon from long pig.
alex
February 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
How DARE you speak such blasphemy here!Seriously… Avocados on BLTs? Sounds gross.
Daniel Schealler
February 18, 2011 at 10:05 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
BLATs. Are. Awesome.Although you did give me a fun thought:”And thou shalt not place avocado upon a BLT as with nachos, for it is an abomination.”