The Woolly-Mammoth Meatball Is an All-Time Great Food Stunt
Wouldn’t you love to try it?
On Tuesday, two men at a museum in the Netherlands lifted a black sheet off a table to reveal a cantaloupe-size globe of overcooked meat perspiring under a bell jar. This was no ordinary spaghetti topper: It was a woolly-mammoth meatball, created by an Australian lab-grown-meat company called Vow.
The meatball, made using real mammoth DNA, supposedly smelled like cooked , and in press , it looked oddly furry, like it had been coughed up by a cat or rolled around by a dung beetle. Still, meat from a long-extinct behemoth that lived during the Ice Age—how could I want to try it?.
