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Re:London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’ by gambiting on Monday February 05, 2018 @08:02AM (#16308482)
Fat is such a fantastic store of energy I am really surprised nothing evolved to eat it in this form.
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Re:London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’ by deadbunny on Monday February 05, 2018 @09:35AM (#16308947)
I see you've never been to Scotland.
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Re:London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’ by Graham24 on Monday February 05, 2018 @11:29AM (#16309832)
ouch!
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Re:London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’ by merpnderp on Monday February 05, 2018 @11:09AM (#16309654)
Given the recent Lancet study on the healthfulness of high fat diets, maybe these could be recycled for food.
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Re:London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’ by MertsA on Monday February 05, 2018 @11:49AM (#16309985)
The Chinese have quite the problem with exactly that. Eating something pulled out of a sewer tends to have health effects and gutter oil is sometimes made from grease from a sewer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil

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Re:London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’ by KozmoNau7 on Monday February 05, 2018 @01:17PM (#16310705)
The depths of human depravity know no bounds.
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