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Re:Researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid by Beijinger on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:53PM (#39377246)
"International researchers have developed a beef-brice hybrid" is not a very good description. "rice-grown beef" is a better description. They bascially use rice as a scaffold to grow beef stem cells.
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Re:Researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid by PlunderBunny on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:59PM (#39377303)
"...a beef-brice hybrid..."

Ironically (as the young kids used to say), you've developed the perfect word for it: 'brice'.

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Re:Researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid by Arrath on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:29PM (#39377571)
Makes me think of Rimworld, out here growing brice and harvesting it for steaks. Or ranching ricalo's and slaughtering them for piles of rice.
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Re:Researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid by kelseyfrog on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:09PM (#39377400)
That's better than 'reef'.
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Re:Researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid by stephenr on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:08PM (#39377887)
Mostly because "reef" is already a word that means something, and coincidentally a word that's also used in combination with "beef" - "beef and reef", aka "surf and turf"; a steak served with prawns in garlic cream sauce.
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Re:Researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid by verve_rat on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @10:10PM (#39378659)
Or could go with bice as the end product, making the plant biceon?
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Re:Researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid by rajnathani on Thursday February 15, 2024 @06:03AM (#39381294)
> Ironically...

Pun: The iron content is definitely higher with brice.

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Re:Researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid by tromp on Thursday February 15, 2024 @12:35PM (#39385561)
Also, beefrice would get confused with beefries, the future hybrid of beef cells grown within fries :-)
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