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frankenmeat en · NOUN

Etymology

From franken- + meat.

Meanings

1. (countable, derogatory, uncountable) Artificial, lab-grown, or vegan meat.
   • I think that’s already “frankenmeat,” which has been around since at least 2011, although I’m now entertaining myself by coming up with terrible alternatives: GrowMeat. ManuFlesh. Okay, yes, this is hard. 2018 November 9, Edith Zimmerman, “What Should We Call Frankenmeat?”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020:
   • These frankenmeats first debuted in August 2013 when Dr Mark Post from the Maastricht University cooked and ate the world’s first lab-grown burger at a press conference. 2019 December 9, Zarrar Khukro, “Is this way to a healthy future? Fake' meat, made in a lab”, in DAWN, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2020:
   • The UN, for its part, has suggested eating insects as a way of feeding those extra mouths, which may put the frankenmeat ick factor in perspective. 2013 August 6, John Michael McGrath, “The Frankenmeat of the Future”, in Hazlitt, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2025:

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