Comments on: Deep Lard Horizon: 250,000 gallons of beef fat spill in Houston Ship Channel

By: hectorinwa

hectorinwa — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

These jokes are offal.

By: Abelard Lindsay

Abelard Lindsay — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“And, there’s hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut…”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is just the tri tip of the tallow berg. The tank cowed under pressure. I hope O’Cleo anGus the cow weren’t HERE FORd this cow tipping event.

By: Ugly Canuck

Ugly Canuck — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fat city.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

SUEEEEeeet. This isn’t calf bad although all the puns are udderly ridiculous and rendered off the charts. We’ve just skimmed the surface and I’m not sure if we’ve milked it for all its worth. Have we gotten to the meat of it? Better beef it up…..OK I’m done

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You know someone’s gonna get suet.

(People, honestly, no one else thought of this? Tsk.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

damn those CSO’s if they had a proper wastewater management system this would have never been a problem!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If the fish ate the fat, then caught and rolled in some rice and seaweed they would be MOOSHI.
I cower to think of the cowleries

By: vinegartom

vinegartom — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I live in Houston and strangely this has not come upon my radar- but then I avoid television so- meh. A spill of this size of anything into Houston’s ship channel doesn’t surprise me in the least. This city’s idea of environmentalism is a joke in comparison to the efforts of other states- which wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t like to tout themselves as a “green” city. Incidentally they also like to think of themselves as “metropolitan” if that tells you anything. They might be- but only about as metropolitan as Chicago in the 1890s.

By: mfrankly

mfrankly — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ah, thereâ€™s the BoingBoing sense of humor, after reading the comments on the cigarette flicking story I was afraid it had been destroyed.

By: Prufrock451

Prufrock451 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

They need to beef up their safety precautions. Whoever is responsible needs to be hit with a fat fine. I’m sure there are more possible puns. I’m just skimming the surface here.

By: tyger11

tyger11 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Skim that up and you have some beef fat with Omega-3 fatty acids. Delicious and nutritious! (tastes nothing like chicken)

By: Prufrock451

Prufrock451 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And by the way, here comes the math:

Average cattle in the US carries 157 pounds of fat.

At a specific density of 0.911, beef fat is 7.6 pounds per gallon.

So we’re looking at 1.9 million pounds of beef fat. Divide by 157.

12,113 cows worth of fat.

I’m stopping right there because there’s leftover pot roast in the fridge and if I keep thinking about this I will never eat it.

By: Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Clearly, someone made a mis steak.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mmm… beef fat.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Curious what the effect will be on the ecosystem. Not the same as a toxic chemical spill, I assume. I’m thinking of bacteria and mico-organisms from the fat…. will certain sea creatures feast on this and grow disproportionately large?

By: Lexica

Lexica — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The link to the Coast Guard site doesn’t seem to be working, and searches on their site for “beef fat” or “houston ship channel” aren’t returning anything useful.

By: knoxblox

knoxblox — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hmmm. Close to being (not exactly the right ingredients) the world’s record for the largest beef bouillon?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Out of the frying pan, into the shipping channel.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If the aquatic life in the canal is anything like my cat, they’ll have it cleaned up in no time.
Then they can have a contest to catch the highest cholesterol carp in history.

By: Winski

Winski — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Xeni:

We’re there like 10,000 white trash pick-up trucks lined up on the shore of the channel trying to get some of that Lard?? My goodness, that would have fried so many catfish and hush puppies for the locals they would have had to build extra church pews just to hold the extra white fat butts created by this lard-o-polloza..!!!

By: BookGuy

BookGuy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great. I just hand lunch, and now I’m already hungry again.

That said, I was disappointed that the linked article wasn’t a bit meatier. They have the marrow of the story, but not much else to chew on.

By: erg79

erg79 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Before today I was not aware of the phrase “value-added oleochemicals.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

SOAP!

By: Prufrock451

Prufrock451 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking of value-added, those oleochemicals now contain bonus leukemia!

http://www.uthouston.edu/distinctions/archive/2007/may/archive.htm?id=795285

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It sounds like a lot, but spread out over the Houston Ship Channel it’s really pretty tallow.

By: Boondocker

Boondocker — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oog. Between the pictures and the puns, I’m feeling a lot worse than before I read this.

By: jim.cowling

jim.cowling — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Beef fat is tallow. Pig fat is lard.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paraphraing Rush Limbaugh, God will eat the fat.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

P.S., God will chew the fat before he eats it.