Hasta La Gadget!

Feb 27

Lab making salami out of Jennifer Lawrence?

How can you resist?

(Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

Whenever someone tells me they’re serious, I’m wary. Whenever someone tells me they’re “100 percent serious,” I imagine their noses at twice the length.

So when I hear that BiteLabs is making salami out of celebrity tissue, I reach for a precautionary Kleenex.

BiteLabs offers an impressive headline: “Eat Celebrity Meat.” After all, it’s what we do every day.

We masticate on celebrities’ personal lives and we swallow the storylines often peddled by their own PR people.

But would we really push a little genetic matter from a celebrity into our mouths and stomachs? Of course we would. It would be something to talk about, to post on our every social network.

BiteLabs promises that it will obtain biopsies from the likes of Jennifer Lawrence (“A Different Type of Hunger Game”), James Franco (“He’s Sexy. He’s Artsy. Let’s Make Him Salami”) and, quite naturally, Kanye West (“Always Push The Boundaries In Taste”).

The fine minds at Motherboard speculate that this is all a fine satire on Silicon Valley’s latest penchant in saving the world: artificially created food.