Wastewater…in your face!
Has anyone taken a gander at the city of San Diego’s Metropolitan Wastewater
Department website? You simply must. The headline for this post is the headline for the sites children’s section, only it doesn’t read quite that smoothly. An alternative reading might be “Wastewater…Sewage, in your face!” Either way, gross.
Someone at MWD has decided that the city’s school children need a thorough understanding of how sewage gets moved and treated, and they’ve decided to abandon all dignity. On the site, you can send your friends “some cool pictures of sewage,” hear sewage related music, play wastewater games, or make food items that look like waste.
Yup, food that looks like poop: Sewage Soda and Fake Sludge Cakes. Sludge, in sewage terms, is the dense clot of solid waste that they filter out of the wastewater. Can we all agree that that’s just gross? Can we also agree that some CityBeat staffer will have to make some of these concoctions and report back? Stay tuned.
Perhaps they’re just getting our children used to the idea of turning poo water into drinking water.
Sounds like a job for the girl that eats everything. I can do the poop-esque cakes. Don’t know about slurping slimy noodles in murky water.
go for it, o food critic!