shmeat

alternative schmeat

1. neologismuncountableAnimal meat grown artificially from a tissue culture.

   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[.]

   2013 December 1, James Palmer, “Schmeat: Where Did That Come From?”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022

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   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.

   2008 May 20, Ketzel Levine, “Lab-Grown Meat a Reality, But Who Will Eat It?”, in NPR, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2023

   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.

   2013 August 5, Catherine Mayer, “Meet 'Schmeat': Say Hello to the Stem-Cell Hamburger”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2023

   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.

   2015, Stuart A. Kallen, Running Dry: The Global Water Crisis, Minneapolis, M.N.: Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 28

   Synonyms: cultured meat, clean meat

alternative schmeat

1. slanguncountablevulgarSynonym of meat (“penis”).

   Synonyms: anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga