The sweet taste of cow pies yield an [ig]Nobel Prize for Japan!
Yahoo! News / AFP – Fri Oct 5, 2207—Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan accepts her 2007 Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard …Yamamoto developed a way to extract vanillin — vanilla fragrance and flavoring — from cow dung…more…
According to reports, while the charming Ms Yamamoto’s accepted her prize achievement, samples of the of her cow poop favored ice cream was offered to the other (ig)Nobel laureates seated on the stage while the crowd at the Harvard ceremony chanted, “Eat it! Eat it!”
For many years, Japanese have won many IgNoble Prizes such as the 2005 prize for Nutrition to the wacky fraud, Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats, who took a photo and analysed every one of his meals for 35 years (including his poops) or the 2004 Ig Nobel Peace prize to Daisuke Inoue for inventing karaoke.
See my 3Yen reports from 2006 and 2005 as well as the official list of “ig-Nobel past winners.”
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October 6th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Hey, I just saw this on JapanProbe and surprisingly nobody seemed to understand this is typical prank of a grad student in Chemical Engineering. That is, if you look at the chemical makeup of artificial vanilla and cow crap, they are similar. If you breakdown bullshit, you can make almost any artificial favor, ha, ha.