Serious Mermaid Question

[Derin_Edala]

Tastes like chicken

Very unlikely. It's be very fatty meat, for the purposes of insulation. Probably like seal.

 

[AliceShiki]

Mermaids aren't born; a mad scientist makes them by stitching people and fish together. Naturally, there is some cross-contamination of flavors at the transition point.

Ed... Ward?

Why eat mermaid when you can eat chicken?

Lynn-chan knows her things~ *nod nod nod*

 

[ThrillingHuman]

H-how do you know that? Ha-have you ate mermaid before? And now this leads to my second question, if mermaids were real, would they be endangered? Like, just think about it. If they tasted like chicken, wouldn't some people actually eat them? So, would they be endangered?

I am pleading the fifth of the first question, the second answer depends on their ability to reproduce. If they did it as fast as humans, they'd outlive us, considering just how much more space they have. Maybe we'd be the endangered one, seeing how they'd control the seas

 

[RepresentingCaution]

That would cause massive immune problems. The blood systems aren't even compatible.

They've got drugs for that. The drugs add their own flavor that kinda tastes like lemon caper sauce.

 

[Derin_Edala]

They've got drugs for that. The drugs add their own flavor that kinda tastes like lemon caper sauce.

That's such an expensive and dangerous route to go down. Immune drugs aren't perfect, wreak havok with your immune system, and don't sole the whole incompatible blood problem. Better to just make one animal.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

That's such an expensive and dangerous route to go down. Immune drugs aren't perfect, wreak havok with your immune system, and don't sole the whole incompatible blood problem. Better to just make one animal.

Nobody ever said mermaids were cheap!

 

[Derin_Edala]

Nobody ever said mermaids were cheap!

THEY COULD BE THOUGH. IF YOU MADE THEM PROPERLY.

 

[peelsdeeni]

THEY COULD BE THOUGH

idk why, but I'm getting some illegal vibes here

 

[RepresentingCaution]

THEY COULD BE THOUGH. IF YOU MADE THEM PROPERLY.

Then they wouldn't be a luxury item anymore. The commoners would start eating them, and then the rich would have to find a different delicacy to enjoy when they want to show off how much money they have.

 

[Derin_Edala]

Then they wouldn't be a luxury item anymore. The commoners would start eating them, and then the rich would have to find a different delicacy to enjoy when they want to show off how much money they have.

Nonsense. You can cut down the manufacturing and maintenance costs severely and not affect the sales costs. Da Beers have been doing it for decades. All that extra money goes into your pocket instead of buying immunosuppresants and sinking into losses when they die too early.

idk why, but I'm getting some illegal vibes here

I take offense to the idea that my bioengineered mermaid flesh market might not comply with the law in every way.

 

[Agentt]

One of my friends here used to be a merman, before he went away.
He said only his lower part was human,
There is no mixing, its just human one millimetre, and fish the next millimetre

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Nonsense. You can cut down the manufacturing and maintenance costs severely and not affect the sales costs. Da Beers have been doing it for decades. All that extra money goes into your pocket instead of buying immunosuppresants and sinking into losses when they die too early.

But they taste better with the immunosuppressants!

 

[BenJepheneT]

But they taste better with the immunosuppressants!

then jack up the immunosuppressants prices. it's gonna be real scummy; like selling a lot of phones but not the chargers.

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

The DNA of a mermaid contains both the full set of human (or other species from the 'homo' genus) chromosomes and the full set of.. whatever fish their tail looks likes' chromosomes. This actually happens in nature now and then as well (although it is at least a million times easier for plants); rutabagas are the combined vegetable containing 100% each of both turnip and cabbage DNA. Rutabagas have 19 pairs of chromosomes, while turnips have 10 and cabbage has 9.