Lard Pour Lard
March 8, 2018 7:27 PM Subscribe
FATBERG is focused on the construction and growth of a floating island of fat. Fat performs a unique and vital function as an energy reserve, stored within the body for times of scarcity. And yet, from a western perspective, fat has lost this function. It is stored and stored some more, but rarely used for its original purpose. Fat simply is.
*shudders*
*reads links again*
*shudders forever*
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 11:29 PM on March 8, 2018
*reads links again*
*shudders forever*
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 11:29 PM on March 8, 2018
Cause the sea doesn't have enough junk floating in it already
It doesn't seem like this one ball of fat in a dock is doing any more damage than someone's boat, though, and they're clearly having an enormous amount of fun making it. It's entirely ridiculous, but there are some entertaining conceptual ideas that come out of it and it keeps these guys out of the pub on the weekend.
posted by howfar at 1:33 AM on March 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
It doesn't seem like this one ball of fat in a dock is doing any more damage than someone's boat, though, and they're clearly having an enormous amount of fun making it. It's entirely ridiculous, but there are some entertaining conceptual ideas that come out of it and it keeps these guys out of the pub on the weekend.
posted by howfar at 1:33 AM on March 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
The idea of sailing it to the north pole is interesting though.
What's the thermal capacity of fat? How will it behave when frozen?
It makes me wonder about shipping sawdust to the north pole and freezing it up with ice to make a giant pykrete burg. It would be a great carbon sink, and would melt more slowly because of the lower thermal conductivity.
(Although these are post hoc justifictions. I just think it would be cool). Could you make a pykrete fatberg? Like, sawdust and frozen fat? How would that behave?
It would certainly burn pretty well if you got it going....
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 3:15 AM on March 9, 2018 [3 favorites]
What's the thermal capacity of fat? How will it behave when frozen?
It makes me wonder about shipping sawdust to the north pole and freezing it up with ice to make a giant pykrete burg. It would be a great carbon sink, and would melt more slowly because of the lower thermal conductivity.
(Although these are post hoc justifictions. I just think it would be cool). Could you make a pykrete fatberg? Like, sawdust and frozen fat? How would that behave?
It would certainly burn pretty well if you got it going....
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 3:15 AM on March 9, 2018 [3 favorites]
Land of fat, made from...the fat of the land?
Now I have Prodigy stuck in my head...
I'm the fatberg starter, lipid instigator
I'm the grease addicted, danger illustrated
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:01 AM on March 9, 2018 [7 favorites]
Now I have Prodigy stuck in my head...
I'm the fatberg starter, lipid instigator
I'm the grease addicted, danger illustrated
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:01 AM on March 9, 2018 [7 favorites]
When they say "FATBERG FLOATFEST" I envision something more like a pumpkin regatta, but with people wedging (easing?) themselves into fatbergs and paddling along the canal.
It's entirely ridiculous, but there are some entertaining conceptual ideas that come out of it and it keeps these guys out of the pub on the weekend.
That's the beauty of it. The fatberg regatta could be sponsored by local pubs, and the only thing they'd need to give would be the waste contents of their deep fat fryers. Win-win!
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:07 AM on March 9, 2018
It's entirely ridiculous, but there are some entertaining conceptual ideas that come out of it and it keeps these guys out of the pub on the weekend.
That's the beauty of it. The fatberg regatta could be sponsored by local pubs, and the only thing they'd need to give would be the waste contents of their deep fat fryers. Win-win!
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:07 AM on March 9, 2018
So as not to abuse the edit window...
That should be all caps:
FATBERG REGATTA.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:08 AM on March 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
That should be all caps:
FATBERG REGATTA.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:08 AM on March 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
The sovereign off-shore nation people have a unique opportunity here!
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 5:11 AM on March 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 5:11 AM on March 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
The Fat of the Land
becomes
The Fat of the Sea
like
The Chicken of the Land
becomes
The Chicken of the Sea
posted by mfoight at 7:34 AM on March 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
becomes
The Fat of the Sea
like
The Chicken of the Land
becomes
The Chicken of the Sea
posted by mfoight at 7:34 AM on March 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
Where are they getting the fat? The first link notes that it’s a mix of vegetable and animal and that when they acquire some, they melt it down and pour it onto the berg, but no real details on where and how. Is the process haphazard—whenever they happen upon fat they add it to the berg? Or is it more formal, with regular deliveries of excess fat arriving at predetermined times? So many questions about process.
Also. Why haven’t the sea gulls above (and the fish below) eaten it already?
posted by notyou at 7:37 AM on March 9, 2018
Also. Why haven’t the sea gulls above (and the fish below) eaten it already?
posted by notyou at 7:37 AM on March 9, 2018
Don't know about Fatbergs, but Southern California has had Fatburger for many years (which I determined long ago was inferior to In-N-Out).
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:49 AM on March 9, 2018
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:49 AM on March 9, 2018
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