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	Space caramel made from giant jellyfish

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9-17-2009 11:42 AM

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9-17-2009 12:01 PM

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And in doing so, we give the Japanese a reason to decimate yet another link in the food chain.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c9f5e291-c4c9-44bc-bbb9-75f18373f017/68CD2BD1-7ED7-4464-B63E-321F715F70FB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/09/space-caramel-made-from-giant-jellyfish/" href="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/09/space-caramel-made-from-giant-jellyfish/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.pinktentacle.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/09/space-caramel-made-from-giant-jellyfish/"><P>In the latest move in Japan’s war on giant jellyfish, high school students in the town of Obama have developed a new type of caramel candy made from the enormous sea creatures — and they are offering it up as a snack for astronauts in space.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/09/space-caramel-made-from-giant-jellyfish/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pinktentacle.com/img/751F54DF-BB8B-4956-8B44-72EB24823107" alt="Echizen kurage, Nomura's jellyfish -- " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/09/space-caramel-made-from-giant-jellyfish/"><P>The space agency, which appears to be entertaining the proposal, is reportedly sending a representative to the school tomorrow (September 17) to evaluate the candy.</p> <P>Described as having a sweet and salty flavor, the caramel’s ingredients include sugar, starch syrup, and jellyfish powder, which is obtained by boiling the jellyfish down to a thick paste, drying it, and grinding it into fine particles. The most recent batch of caramel uses powder from Nomura’s jellyfish snared last month in fixed fishing nets in nearby Wakasa Bay. The bay is located in Fukui prefecture, which has been among the areas hardest hit by the giant jellyfish swarms in recent years.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/09/space-caramel-made-from-giant-jellyfish/">a local company began using it as an ingredient in their <A href="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/10/cookies-made-from-giant-jellyfish/">jellyfish cookies</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/09/space-caramel-made-from-giant-jellyfish/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pinktentacle.com/img/054021EA-6F78-4DB9-996B-C8E2E9DC5ECE" alt="Students pose with caramel made from giant jellyfish -- " /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/68CD2BD1-7ED7-4464-B63E-321F715F70FB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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