interesting stuff from Moyashimon

moyashimon.txt

s1e01:
  - dead seal
  - pickled seal delicacy, a Canadian fermented meal known as "Kiviak"
    - fill the seal's insides with about 70 to 80 seagulls
    - drink its intestinal fulids by sucking it out through their bowels
    - "it feels like a rice bran or nattaou bean paste... with a meat taste"
    - "originally the northern natives ate raw meats to compensate for their lack of vegetable comsumption. Once the practice of cooking meat arrived, they were not able to obtain enough vitamines from simply eating cooked meat, that is why they Kiviak as a spread, putting it on top of their cooked meat to help meet their daily nutritional needs."
    - "i.e. the  northern natives obtained vitamins from abundant nutrients created by the fermented bacteria"
  - miso soup containing A. oyrzae
  - yogurt containing S. lactis bulgaricus
  - lactobacillus
  - l.yogurti
  - Lactobaciullus plantarum is used for lactic acid production
  - professor grabs a bottle claiming it is vinegar undergoing fermentation
  - lead character grabs A. aceti
    - Acetobacter aceti is used in industrial fermentation facilities
    - lead character claims it should have this inside it, and that the drink the professor is holding is probably a rice wine instead
  - professor exlaims, "it really is an acetobacter", after viewing it through the compound light microscope
  - picture of ayeast cell taken with an electron microscope shown
  - microbe colonies cultivated in a chalet which may be found in public washrooms: B. halodurans (they are playing a game: S-ken)
  - B. nattou (found in nattou bean pastes)
  - S. cerevisiae (microbes found in bakeries)
  - T. rubrum: a common cause of athlete's foot, jock itch and ringworm
  - fructivorans: used to ferment Japanese sake but ar more commonly known to spoil food
  - credits give thanks to Autodesk
  - microbe theater one:
    - Oryzae, a common fungus used in research
    - yeast factory: a place which makes yeast fungus
    - common items with yeast in it: miso soup, soy sauce, and sake
    - implication that yeast grows rapidly
    - "Chrysogenum, a green fungus": Penicillium chrhysogenum is a mold that is widely distributed in nature, and is often found living on foods and in indoor environments

s1e05:
  - experiment:
    - maze where bacteria finds the shortest path with food at the entrance and exit
  - new alcoholic beverage (i haven't heard of it at least):
    - shochu
  - microbe theater five:
    - cerevisiae, "the fermenter", purpose: turn sugar into alcohol, brew starch into sugar
    - "oh i ate alcohol and i pooped sugar"
    - pure brewing microbesfermentation girls
      CHINESE CHAR : sweet sakea
      8            : bitter sake
      10           : i brew in cold temps
      1601         : great ginjou sake