Meaning of shmeat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Animal meat grown artificially from a tissue culture.
   neologism, uncountable
2. Synonym of meat (“penis”).
   slang, uncountable, vulgar

Examples

“His work involves turning formless, textureless patches of the stuff into mass-produced form — like meat sheets, or what one might affectionately call "shmeat." […] So, to recap the opinions on the state of shmeat: It's animal-friendly but bad for the environment; we have the how-to, but not the how-come; unleashing unknown technologies is fodder for nightmares.”

“The ambitions for schmeat are huge, but the taste evidently falls short of a standard burger. The problem is a "technical bottleneck," Post (whose name rhymes with cost) told the audience at the Riverside Studios in West London.”

“It's now an OED word of the year, though at a cost of £250,000 a burger, we won't be seeing easy schmeat any time soon[.]”

“Lab meat — known as in vitro meat, cultured meat, or shmeat — was first produced by Dutch scientists in 2012. The shmeat beefburger is made from the muscle cells of cows, treated with a protein that promotes tissue growth.”

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