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i would try it....as long as it's not in powdery form like astronaut ice cream-wouldn't that be weird, eating beer?

Can you "grow" beer? I thought from the article that the barley was grown in space but the beer itself was brewed on planet Earth.

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Mushroom - Mother Nature's mold. Grown in dirt, smell like dirt, taste like heaven. May induce satisfaction, hallucination or increase in height or speed (a concept highly marketed by the Nintendo Corporation). Also deadly.

Banana: A milky-white dense fruit grown in its very own fruit carrying receptacle. However, even though it is both a healthy and delicious treat, take note, that it can also double as a deadly weapon in such arenas like Mario Kart, or Looney Toons chase scenes. Further adding to this "bad boy" appeal is its extremely taboo phallic-esque shape, which has resulted in it being touted as the "ladies man" of the fruit world; joining the ranks of such other famous studs such as the cucumber. Is also prone to be spelled out repeatedly in overplayed Gwen Stefani songs.

Slice: Surely Loving Italian Cuisine Everyday.

Zagat - a paperback compilation of restaurant ratings submitted by pithy patrons. Though widely believed to be founded by two New Yorkers, it is actually the result of a government initiative to increase the use of quotation marks.

mini-burgers: an abomination on the plate of right-minded, food-loving, individuals.

Sauvignon Blanc - the type of stare that a person gives another person after the later says something unbelievable relating to food. i.e. "I don't like chocolate or bacon."

Chocolate: see "crack" of the food world.

Chinese: a descriptive term used in American cooking to describe something fried or cooked deeply with oil.

Tenderloin: a term used to localize a cow's pain.

egg⋅plant
   /ˈɛgˌplænt, -ˌplɑnt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [eg-plant, -plahnt]

–noun
1. a meaty plant from an egg, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade Rhode Island Red family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
2. the fruit of this poultry plant is used as a table vegetable.
3. egg shaped, as is its large seed which is removed from a hen's nether regions and placed large side down in rich soil, cracked slightly, covered with coffee grounds, then watered with strong coffee, (the forgotten nutrient) every morning. This plant needs regular feeding with ground bacon bits to produce the best results. May be pasteurized for longer storage. Preferred seeds come from free-range humanely raised chickens.

amuse-bouche: A bite-sized appetizer served in restaurants, highlighting the affectations of the chef, usually complimented by a specific wine. It is employed on menus for the enjoyment of the wait staff. They receive a much needed break in tension as Mid-Western American customers make funny faces and delightful noises while attempting to pronounce it.

It has also been scientifically proven that said customers enjoy food served to them three times more when they have difficulty in pronouncing the dish. Firmly planting the amuse-bouche in restaurant profitability.

scale of difficulty/recipe difficulty: A misleading, non-standard scale by which experienced cooks work out their rather twisted senses of humor on unsuspecting home cooks, new culinary students, or any other hapless person who may attempt the recipe. The math for the scale is a geologarithmic progression where "easy"/one star/fork/symbol represents working in a professionally equipped kitchen with at least one assistant or "commis" and "difficult" or "advanced" or four/five symbols represents a recipe that no one, even a professionally trained, seasoned culinary professional under the influence of illicit substances should attempt without a full kitchen brigade and possibly two kitchens.