frankenmeat

English

Etymology

From franken- +‎ meat.

Noun

frankenmeat (countable and uncountable, plural frankenmeats)

  1. (derogatory) Artificial, lab-grown, or vegan meat.
    • 2013 August 6, John Michael McGrath, “The Frankenmeat of the Future”, in Hazlitt‎[1]:
      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.
    • 2018 November 9, Edith Zimmerman, “What Should We Call Frankenmeat?”, in The Cut‎[2]:
      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.
    • 2019 December 9, Zarrar Khukro, “Is this way to a healthy future? Fake' meat, made in a lab”, in The Asian Age‎[3]:
      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.
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