Instant coffee for Vampires
Blood Meal
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
sleen@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
As a vampire I finally found a use for my expresso machine
snooggums@midwest.social 8 months ago
I love the idea of a vampire having kitchen appliances for which they have no use just like regular people.
fed0sine@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Espresso with an S!
It’s counterintuitive since making an espresso shot with a warmed up machine is quite fast. 😜
blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The best part of waaaking up…
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 8 months ago
It makes sense to clarify. There are many dishes made with blood, black pudding and blood sausage comes to mind.
JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Also it’s good to let people know because dogs absolutely love that shit and you have to be careful to keep it out of areas dogs can get at it.
I worked in a green house and one customer’s dog dug up an entire tree she planted to get at the blood meal she put in the bottom of the hole. Dog was okay, but needed to stay at the vets a few days to monitor the vomiting and their iron levels.
Deebster@programming.dev 8 months ago
what fucked up tumblr subculture has my shitpost reached
I’ve never been on tumblr and just assumed the whole site was like that.
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I mean, it says it’s a meal right on the front. /s
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Stuff is expensive. It’s the best thing I’ve found for keeping deer from eating my plants, but then I got a dog that just went nuts for the stuff and would just eat it like mad when he went outside. So now the dear just eat my plants again.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Our dachshund picks up and eats all kind of shit. She’s a destroyer of SHOES and CPAP masks, of course, but she also eats rocks, plastic, or whatever else she finds.
The other day I walk in, and she has 2 milkbones (we don’t buy them and I have no idea where they came from). She just moved them around for a few days and never ate those.
Dogs are weird.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The way dogs handle new food is interesting. They have very short digestive tracts so the idea for them is to eat everything once, and if it makes them sick it will make them sick very quickly. They then know not to eat something.
Thats a possible reason for the aversion. They can also associate foods with traumatic events sort of like humans do.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is what I came here to say. The clarification on the post is not about humans eating plant food, it’s about idiot fucking pets eating plant food. They eat grass, why wouldn’t they chow down on something that smells like blood.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I feel like the tumblr user asking why it’s necessary to tell people not to eat blood meal must have forgotten they’re on tumblr. The whole site is just smut curated by the generation that turned eating tide pods into a meme.
kungen@feddit.nu 8 months ago
Uhm, hello, it says blood MEAL, so of course it’s made to be eaten.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
In that case you’re gonna love bone meal.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And TBF if it were actually just dried blood with no additives then it wouldn’t be so bad.
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can I use the iron in this to forge a sword??
GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sure, but you’d need a lot.
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ahh, that says you might need ~2.3 kg of iron sand after removing the non-iron from the material. Blood meal appears to be .2% iron by weight. Very napkin quality math says you’d need ~1150 bags to get enough iron
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 8 months ago
My first thought was if it could be rehydrated and used as a more easily acquired prop blood, as opposed to pig’s blood.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 8 months ago
My first thought was “this is a much easier way for a Vampire to eat than stealing from a blood bank.”
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If animal blood is acceptable then I’m not really sure why stealing from a blood bank would be a primary course of action in the first place…
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
In many cultures blood, sometimes dried is used in cooking.
For example blood sausage and blood pancakes are eaten in finland
Ignot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sweden, Ireland, France, Spain and Italy also use them for sausage-like products (these I know of, I’m sure there’s more)
UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 months ago
forbidden nesquik
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Don’t look at bone meal (in the same section of the store)
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Iron helps us play!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hello, Joe.
i_failed_turing_test@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Let me introduce you to blood sausages…
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Ya, I assumed this was like instant mash for blood pudding. Probably would have second guessed it if I saw it in the gardening aisle, though.
hannesh93@feddit.org 8 months ago
Is this an US thing? I’m fairly certain I’ve never seen that in Germany
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 months ago
No, you can find this in garden shops in Europe.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Why would you find eating blood disgusting? You know where meat comes from, right? And why it’s red?
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Meat is red because of myoglobin, a protein found in mammalian muscle tissue that turns red when exposed to oxygen.
Myoglobin is different from hemoglobin though, which is the stuff in blood. Most of the time, your meat only has a tiny amount of hemoglobin in it by the time it gets to your table.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Myoglobin is red because of the iron atoms it interacts with. So is hemoglobin. But thanks for mansplaining.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Its still safe to say that someone who eats meat is also eating blood, right?
can@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
dumbass@leminal.space 8 months ago
Look, nobody is saying you should eat the whole bag, but a teaspoon every so often as a treat maybe?
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Could it serve as an iron supplement?
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 8 months ago
Tumblr goths, ffs.
10_0@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
This reminds me on PICA and ppl eating clay, don’t they get sick?
occhionaut@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nah, dont worry about em. Theyll be o-clay.
teamevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fuckin lame ass cosplay suburban vampire bullshit. Most likely teenage but also really gross lame adults. OR…Carrie enthusiasts.
superkret@feddit.org 8 months ago
If I use this to fertilize my veggies, are they still vegan?
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Two factors to consider id say. Blood isn’t the only organic source of nitrogen so it’s not as if its necessary, thus I’d wager many vegans would consider it unnecessary animal suffering, at least in theory. However the caveat would be blood is byproduct, no ones killing the animals in order to obtain blood meal, many people including vegans may think it more ethical to not let it go to waste.
superkret@feddit.org 8 months ago
That second point would require intimate knowledge about which animal parts would be disposed of if they didn’t find a buyer.
In reality, everything is used. If there wasn’t a market for part of an animal, a use was found and a market created (which is part of the reason why industrially produced white sugar, beer, wine, apple juice, potato chips and bread usually aren’t vegan).
Anyway, vegans usually don’t care about whether an animal product could be leftover. Their philosophy boils down to “Just fucking leave animals in peace.”
ninjabard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Whether or not. Not weather.
Vedlt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Even honey isn’t okay with some (I have no idea the %, could be most or just a small number) of vegans. So regardless of how the blood was obtained, there is at least some who would not consider it vegan.
fireweed@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are vegan blood meal alternatives out there to resolve this exact conundrum.
But the reality is, unless your plants are being grown hydroponically in a sealed warehouse or similar, chances are real good that they are feeding on decaying animals (either directly or indirectly) whether you like it or not. They’re mostly insects and annelids and such, but still animals.
superkret@feddit.org 8 months ago
The issue for vegans is whether animal slaughter was involved and whether they supported it with their purchase.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Humans are just as much part of nature as everything else
teamevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Life feeds on life feeds on life, plants don’t care how you died just how your nutrients are able to be absorbed.
anivia@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Doesn’t have to be hydroponics, using coco coir instead of soil will also fix that issue