Comments on: Tanker-truck full of inedible pig blood http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: apoxia http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1682540 apoxia Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1682540 The internet says: "Fish meals with high oil contents can present problems during storage. Fish oil in the meal will oxidise after production and the reaction can lead to considerable rises in temperature. This can become a fire hazard." Combustible might be a better way to describe it rather than explosive. But if its locked up in a shipping container in the sun with other containers all around the results could be pretty disastrous. When exporting the stuff the documentation had to note it was a fire hazard. The internet says: “Fish meals with high oil contents can present problems during storage. Fish oil in the meal will oxidise after production and the reaction can lead to considerable rises in temperature. This can become a fire hazard.”

Combustible might be a better way to describe it rather than explosive. But if its locked up in a shipping container in the sun with other containers all around the results could be pretty disastrous.

When exporting the stuff the documentation had to note it was a fire hazard.

]]> By: kringlebertfistyebuns http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1682054 kringlebertfistyebuns Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1682054 Wait...fish meal is explosive?  How, from the dust?  Or something else? Wait…fish meal is explosive?  How, from the dust?  Or something else?

]]> By: CLamb http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681995 CLamb Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681995  It's especially good for pig vampires.  It’s especially good for pig vampires.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681833 Antinous / Moderator Mon, 18 Mar 2013 02:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681833 <blockquote>Better to weaponize bio-degradable pork</blockquote>Why bother when raw poultry is already such an effective bioweapon?

Better to weaponize bio-degradable pork

Why bother when raw poultry is already such an effective bioweapon?

]]> By: toyg http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681775 toyg Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681775 Better to weaponize bio-degradable pork than spent uranium, which has a half-life of centuries. Thanks to NATO ordnance, Boznia will keep having high rates of tumours for quite a long time; a bit of pig blood would have just helped plants grow a bit faster for a year or two. Better to weaponize bio-degradable pork than spent uranium, which has a half-life of centuries. Thanks to NATO ordnance, Boznia will keep having high rates of tumours for quite a long time; a bit of pig blood would have just helped plants grow a bit faster for a year or two.

]]> By: Gilbert Wham http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681772 Gilbert Wham Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681772 Righteous and apposite Thrash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8mEOiI4pjs Righteous and apposite Thrash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8mEOiI4pjs

]]> By: Gilbert Wham http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681771 Gilbert Wham Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681771 My friend's dad worked his whole life for Birds (they of custard-powder fame). He was blown up several times in food product-related detonations.  My friend’s dad worked his whole life for Birds (they of custard-powder fame). He was blown up several times in food product-related detonations. 

]]> By: Gilbert Wham http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681770 Gilbert Wham Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681770  <i>Crunchy</i> pig-blood, you say? Why was I not informed?  Crunchy pig-blood, you say? Why was I not informed?

]]> By: Gilbert Wham http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681769 Gilbert Wham Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681769 Yea, I say unto thee once more: Black Pudding. Yea, I say unto thee once more: Black Pudding.

]]> By: Gilbert Wham http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681767 Gilbert Wham Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681767 Black pudding. English or the Spanish kind. 'Everything but the squeal', as the saying goes... Black pudding. English or the Spanish kind. ‘Everything but the squeal’, as the saying goes…

]]> By: tomrigid http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681516 tomrigid Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681516 Cowschwitz Cowschwitz

]]> By: chgoliz http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681457 chgoliz Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681457  Durian. Which I love. And Casu Marzu.  Which I don't.  Durian.

Which I love.

And Casu Marzu.  Which I don’t.

]]> By: chgoliz http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681453 chgoliz Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681453  In heels.  In heels.

]]> By: jackie31337 http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681424 jackie31337 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681424 In Finland, they sell pigs' blood by the liter in the frozen food section. People use it for making <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blodplättar" rel="nofollow">pancakes</a>. In Finland, they sell pigs’ blood by the liter in the frozen food section. People use it for making pancakes.

]]> By: Marc Mielke http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681380 Marc Mielke Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681380 I'm more reminded of 'Pig Blood Blues' by Clive Barker: "Don't believe them if they said I never loved you, or if they said I ran away. I never did. They fed me to the pig. I love you. -Tommy" I’m more reminded of ‘Pig Blood Blues’ by Clive Barker:

“Don’t believe them if they said I never loved you, or if they said I ran away. I never did. They fed me to the pig. I love you. -Tommy”

]]> By: cavalrysword http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681379 cavalrysword Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681379 Ah.  Thank you.  You can almost always get past me with a reference to a horror film, as I avoid them.  The characters do such stupid things, like running down the middle of the street to get away from a car.  I can't bear to watch it. Ah.  Thank you.  You can almost always get past me with a reference to a horror film, as I avoid them.  The characters do such stupid things, like running down the middle of the street to get away from a car.  I can’t bear to watch it.

]]> By: Vanwall Green http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681319 Vanwall Green Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681319 I was driving in the middle of nowhere California, and came up on a big rig with the 'radioactive hazard' triangle open on the back. Passed it very quickly.  I was driving in the middle of nowhere California, and came up on a big rig with the ‘radioactive hazard’ triangle open on the back. Passed it very quickly. 

]]> By: apoxia http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681292 apoxia Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681292  Luckily for me the company I was employed by was a middle man between the producer and the overseas buyer, and so the worst we had were sample bags of meal we sent for testing. My primary function was completing the export documentation. However, those sample bags came in handy for garden fertiliser.  Luckily for me the company I was employed by was a middle man between the producer and the overseas buyer, and so the worst we had were sample bags of meal we sent for testing. My primary function was completing the export documentation. However, those sample bags came in handy for garden fertiliser.

]]> By: Dennis Smith http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681290 Dennis Smith Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681290 Might be horse DNA in there. Might be horse DNA in there.

]]> By: Robert http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681276 Robert Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681276 The funny thing is, Jewish law allows eating nonkosher/treif if it's required for you to stay alive. So a Jewish vampire may drink blood. Seriously, the things I ran across when researching my screenplay. The funny thing is, Jewish law allows eating nonkosher/treif if it’s required for you to stay alive. So a Jewish vampire may drink blood. Seriously, the things I ran across when researching my screenplay.

]]> By: Dave Green http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681274 Dave Green Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681274 Reminds me when I worked at a Toronto abbatoire; the plant filled one whole tanker truck every 8 hours! What goes out in the tanker isn't the worst; you should  see what goes out in the covered trucks, and into the city sewers. Reminds me when I worked at a Toronto abbatoire; the plant filled one whole tanker truck every 8 hours! What goes out in the tanker isn’t the worst; you should  see what goes out in the covered trucks, and into the city sewers.

]]> By: welcomeabored http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681266 welcomeabored Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681266 Every so once in a while, I think about the game show, 'What's My Line?'  That job description sounds like a sure winner - the panel would be stumped. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbZliXx8kIQ Every so once in a while, I think about the game show, ‘What’s My Line?’  That job description sounds like a sure winner – the panel would be stumped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbZliXx8kIQ

]]> By: billstewart http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681258 billstewart Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681258 There's a Taiwanese snack that gets called "rice cakes", little cubes of rice and pork blood fried crunchy.  I'm a vegetarian, so I don't eat the things, but my wife gets them at the local boba drink place.  And there's black pudding at the pub. There’s a Taiwanese snack that gets called “rice cakes”, little cubes of rice and pork blood fried crunchy.  I’m a vegetarian, so I don’t eat the things, but my wife gets them at the local boba drink place.  And there’s black pudding at the pub.

]]> By: Charles-A Rovira http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681248 Charles-A Rovira Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681248 Well <b><i>that</i></b>'s why they call it "<b>Red Bull</b>". Well that‘s why they call it “Red Bull“.

]]> By: Charles-A Rovira http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681246 Charles-A Rovira Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681246 Feedlots are abominations for everyone and everything. I can't imagine a more soul deadening place to work except Nazi concentration camps, where nothing come out except for immediate burial. Feedlots are abominations for everyone and everything.

I can’t imagine a more soul deadening place to work except Nazi concentration camps, where nothing come out except for immediate burial.

]]> By: Felton / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681236 Felton / Moderator Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681236 It's another reference to the film Carrie. It’s another reference to the film Carrie.

]]> By: Preston Sturges http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681231 Preston Sturges Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681231 It's probably going to an exclusive sex fetish club.   It's hard to dismiss that idea when so many impressionable young guys have been raised on slasher movies.   It’s probably going to an exclusive sex fetish club.  

It’s hard to dismiss that idea when so many impressionable young guys have been raised on slasher movies.  

]]> By: Ray Perkins http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681229 Ray Perkins Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681229 Had to take some stuff to the city dump once. A truck pulled in beside us filled with this yellow slop which was from the local rendering plant. The plant turned things like bloated cow carcasses into fertilizer. The stuff they couldn't use was taken to the dump. Unbelievable horrid smell. I really don't know how people could work in that plant. Had to take some stuff to the city dump once. A truck pulled in beside us filled with this yellow slop which was from the local rendering plant. The plant turned things like bloated cow carcasses into fertilizer. The stuff they couldn’t use was taken to the dump. Unbelievable horrid smell. I really don’t know how people could work in that plant.

]]> By: Diogenes http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681226 Diogenes Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681226  Indeed.  Feedlots are kryptonite to carnivores.  The stench is beyond adequate description.  Indeed.  Feedlots are kryptonite to carnivores.  The stench is beyond adequate description.

]]> By: Diogenes http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/tanker-truck-full-of-inedible.html#comment-1681225 Diogenes Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=218984#comment-1681225 Damn, niktemadur beat me! Damn, niktemadur beat me!

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