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Taipei, Taiwan (AP) - Diners tempted to lick a plate after a delicious meal can now go a step further - eat the plate.
Chen Liang-erh, 50, an amateur inventor, announced Friday that he had perfected an edible plate made from wheat grain, and that he planned to mass-produce
it and other edible crockery including cups, bowls and food containers.
Chen spent six years developing the plate, which he said would retail at about 7 cents each.
Diners who don't want to eat the items - which taste like unsalted popcorn - can boil them for a nutritious meal for animals, he said.
Chen said this can help reduce pollution caused by discarded crockery. The only disadvantage, he said, is his crockery cannot be washed and reused.
wheat grain you say...
...how about maybe...corn grain...??
just a suggestion.
Sounds like a workable alternative to paper plates and plastic dishes, for things like picnics.
Wonder if ants like wheat or corn grain or whatever.
Bob
...bugs, ants, beetles, whatever...like anything not kept clean and covered. It matters not whether paper, wheat, rice, corn oats... skin for that matter...
skin? oh my Gooood!
Bob
Very funny. If i invite friends to my place i can say sorry, i didn't coock anything but feel free to eat the plates lol.
This reminds me of the song The candyman, in one place it says you can even eat the dishes. Lol!!!
Lelia
...here it is more, I didn't cook anything...let's head out over to Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar ~~~OR~~~ PIZZA HUT ~~~OR~~~ Little Ceasar's Pizza ~~~OR~~~ A&W RootBeer ~~~OR~~~ China City ~~~OR~~~ TACO BELL ~~~OR~~~ KFC ~~~OR~~~ Pondersosa ~~~OR~~~ MacDonalds ~~~OR~~~ Burger King ~~~OR~~~ StarBucks ~~~OR~~~ ...and the list goes on.. the list goes on... *HomeMade Picnic Lunch is good too, use the Park system's picnic tables... **Paper Plates are good to "take-along" no dishes to wash...THEN again LEAVES are GR'gr'gr'grATE to use as plates...ALL NATURAL! ***and AGAIN, NO Dishes to wash!!!! smile
...here buk buk buk...
...here buk buk buk...
...Mmmmmmmmmm chicken on zePlate!
TASTY! smile
Wow. Eatible Dishes? How cool.! If that ever did work out and I could buy some, I'd probably only want the plates and bowls. I could eat from them and then make my dogs a meal with that and some meat and vegies. *smile* I have already been thinking about how I might be able to get some good dishes without spending too much or worrying about them breaking or turning up missing. I was thinking of getting some hard plastic ones that look nice (instead of the glass ones), and also some disposable paper or plastic ones for when I want to give someone something so I won't have to worry about getting it back. (Actually the plastic ones could be washed to be used again or put in recycling.) I would also get plastic silverware for the same reasons, although I migh have some metal ones at home but I would not want the metal ones leaving the house. But with the eatible dishes, that would be cool because then if I ever went camping or just didn't feel like washing dishes, I could use them and then my dogs could easily get something out of it as well, or I could eat them myself with something. *smile*
The only thing is, if you had the bowls and wanted to put something hot and soupy like soup or beans or something, I wonder how good it would be for that.? I mean, I wonder if it could eventually leak thru the bowl.? I know it might "cook" it a little if it were too hot but yeah. There's probably a limit to what foods you can eat from it I would think.