Who in the hell wants to eat Kelp?

[Dis]

I think any worker working a square with a kelp farm should cause 1 drone . Sure it's edible, but no one wants to actually eat the stuff.

[Chaos Theory]

Well, just consider how the various factions use kelp:

Zak: Kelp is reflavored and retextured with modern science!
Morgan: The poor eat kelp because they're poor
Miriam: Kelp is manna!
Yang: It is every citizen's nutritional duty to eat the cheapest, most plentiful food, even if it's kelp
Santiago: Eating kelp builds character
Deirdre: Eating kelp helps you become one with the planet
Lal: People eat insects. What's wrong with kelp?
Aki Zeta-5: Flavor is irrelevant
Domai: If you eat kelp, you'll grow up to be big and strong!
Roze: Kelp is just like ramen!
Cha Dawn: Eat kelp, or the mindworms will eat you
Svensgaard: Land-food is for the weak

[Method]

Maybe fish eat kelp, and we eat the fish that it attracts?

[Patashu]

Method: Wouldn't it make more sense to build a fishery instead then?

As for the Kelp...maybe it's run through a machine that turns it into something more edible? *shrug*

[Zeiter]

People probably don't eat the kelp right out of the ocean. I'm sure they harvest it, dry it out, maybe combine it with other foods, and then they eat it. They also probably eat fish too. Remember, sea squares produce 1 nut without any kelp. Perhaps this is from eating fish? Then the kelp adds 2 nuts.

I can't say that I've ever had kelp, but who knows, maybe it's not that bad? Maybe it is something like a mix between asparagus and brussel sprouts, both of which I happen to like (yep, I'm wierd.) Regardless of the taste, though, I'm sure the kelp is nutritional. In a society like Yang's, that's all that matters. Maybe kelp farms being harvested by Morgan should only yield 2 nuts, because we all know how spoiled those Morganites are.

[Vev]

I've once been through a kelp phase, it isn't too bad. In some tropical islands, kelp is farmed as a cash crop.

[Darsnan]

I've eaten kelp on a number of occasions, primarily when I was in Korea. It was used to wrap a rice/ meat/ vegetable combo which was then dipped in soy sauce. It was also sold dried out - took a little getting used to, and was more of a novelty to us Americans than anything else. Sort of like spinach, only saltier IMO. Can't be as bad as vegemite......


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[Skanky Burns]

Nothing is as bad as vegemite.

[Barinthus]

I actually do like kelp... of earth variety that is anyway. I don't know about the Planet's.

[Skanky Burns]

Well, the kelp on Planet is of the man-made variety, so it is probably safe to assume that is very similar to that on Earth. Maybe with a few gene tweaks.

[Lefty Scaevola]

I eat kelp/seaweed, by choice. Many millions Japanese do so, and I am sure, also many millions others.

[SynthetGod8]

I'd use it as a raw material in my matter resequencers. Turn 1 pound of unappetizing kelp into a hot, juicy steak with a side-order of mashed potatoes in under 5 minutes.

And if you don't have a matter resequencer, a recycler would work just as well. Kelp-steak and kelp-potatoes. Almost as good, but without any taste.

What did you think the Recycling Tanks were for? All those surplus tonnes of kelp, corpses, and bodily waste get broken down, mixed together, purified for nutritional content, flavor and texture are added, dry it all out, wrap it in a colorful cellophane package, and enjoy! Manna for the masses, from the masses.

Soylent Green: It's what's for dinner... after all, it's your duty.

[Barinthus]

Sounds like that stuff people eat in the real world in Matrix.

[Frankychan]

Kelp is good....seaweed, that is.

Lot's of ppl here eat it with raw fish. That stuff is the bomb!

[Skanky Burns]

As in it very often kills people? I agree.