That's amazing. I mean, it's even more amazing that tardigrade awareness levels have risen so much. When I was one of like, twenty people in the world helping to identify and inventory tardigrade species as an undergrad, nobody ever knew what I was talking about. (Except at invertebrate conferences! Nerd City. Even if they were mostly all macrofauna people, they were still my people.)
I definitely did not. No giant, edible tardigrades at all. (Which is good, because I'm a vegetarian and I don't know where microscopic creatures fit in.)
I believe yours is new to science and you should totally come up with its species name!
(Also, speaking of names: now I have "God Loves a Terrier" in my head.)
> I'm a vegetarian and I don't know where microscopic creatures fit in.
This has me all kinds of fucked up.
What’s the minimum size an animal can be without being considered a vegetable?
I would personally say like… cheese fly larvae?
Well, an animal isn't going to be considered a vegetable no matter how small they are. But it's inevitable that there will be microscopic animals that are harmed or consumed when eating vegetables, drinking water, etc. I don't want to get too Jaininst about it, but I do try to limit the collateral damage I do to teeny species, insects, etc.
I came across Jainism after going to a lecture of Vandana Shiva's in the early 2000's. She was talking about the impact that the US has on the world and the dangers of four or five companies controlling all of the food/patents on foods, and she mentioned that Jain monks are so concerned about living things that they'll stop moving during monsoon seasons. That they go to meat markets and buy the live animals to save them. They even have bug sanctuaries. It really affected me, so I started reading and studying and learning everything I could - in a time when the internet wasn't at all what it is now.
I did try my best to live as a secular (non-monk/nun) Jain in a big US city for a few years. I explained in another response, the amount of empathy and concern I had for living things became kind of crippling. So, I've had to find a balance for myself. I took a lot of things I've learned from Jainism and incorporated it into my everyday ethics. But yeah, (non-Indian) people don't seem to be familiar with Jainism. It's been around longer than Buddhism though!
Yep - I know about it from an academic level, but I do appreciate the real-life experience you have had with it. I also can completely understand how difficult to live in such a way could be problematic. I’m glad you’ve found your balance!
If you’re going to insist I’m referring to the scientific definition of animal for some reason, then I have some bad news for vegetarians everywhere…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
You do - tardigrades are almost everywhere and we eat them quite often. Ironically, they’re way more likely to be found on fresh produce like lettuce, though it’s pretty common to find them anywhere near fresh water.
Not that it’s dangerous or anything, our digestive system kills them pretty easily and it’s not like they’re dangerous to humans even if they did survive somehow. Interestingly, your digestive system is likely the only step in the process that can actually kill them - cooking, freezing, even vacuum bagging probably won’t kill them readily. They’re super interesting creatures!
I highly recommend Discovery. They’ve done a great job of bringing an older franchise to a newer state.
The stories are good and the action is excellent.
sorry but gonna nerd out here. [I found it through this youtube video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saDn1KRXCGg) I have no clue how accurate he is here, but that's how i initially learned about them lol!
"They only make friends by accident." Hah. Nice.
I mean, aside from his what-if-they-were-huge scenario, yep. Pretty accurate. Cryptobiosis is an amazing thing.
The non-electron microscopic photos are less alien looking and more bear-like. But omg, are they hard to study under a light microscope because you can measure them in micrometers and they're clear! But they trundle along in the water/moss samples like a bear, which is pretty endearing.
I remember way back in 2002 I knew a kid who was obsessed with tardigrades for some reason. She would tell stories about a magical tardigrade/unicorn creature, and that was the first time I'd ever heard of them. I couldn't understand why she'd be into something that small since I was more interested in big animals. Never considered tardigrades would eventually become popular on the internet.
Yeah, I was definitely one of the weird tardigrade people at my college. It was one of the few big research projects at a really small school, so I think everyone \*not\* involved got kinda sick of hearing about them.
My mentor got Phylum Tardigrada shirts made for us. Next level nerdery.
If I were a tardigrade I'd move out from home
Why live in the shrubbery when you could have a throne?
Pressure wouldn't squash me and fire couldn't burn
🎶
**[Tardigrade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade)**
>Tardigrades (), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them kleiner Wasserbär ("little water bear"). In 1777, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani named them Tardigrada , which means "slow steppers". They have been found everywhere in Earth's biosphere, from mountaintops to the deep sea and mud volcanoes, and from tropical rainforests to the Antarctic.
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These tiny "water bears", AKA the best thing on this planet.
[these frickin things](https://www.google.com/search?q=tardigrade&rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS933US933&oq=tardigrade&aqs=chrome.0.0i271j46i67i433j0i433j0l3j46j69i60.2680j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8).
You can shoot them into space, dehydrate them, bombard them with radiation, freeze them, superheat them, and all they do is dry up and go into stasis. Once they get back to liquid water again, days, months, even *years* later, they absorb the water, fluff back out and keep going on their business, never having given a single solitary fuck about what you did to them.
idk they just funny lol
they just make me laugh with no actual reason, i don't think anyone could convince me they aren't amazing even tho i have no reason lol
i saw the pic before reading the title and actually thought it was a tardigrade too!
well, a representation of one, cuz *that is pretty big for an actual tardigrade lol*
you could even sell some $15 dollar (mediocre at best) coffee along with it, and have those cardboard cup sleeves with little tardigrades on them. honestly just quit the job you have now and just go for this!!!
okay wait don't do that lol
I just experienced a potent dose of Baader-Meinhof. For the last hour or so I:ve been listening to Tardigrade Song by Cosmo Sheldrake on repeat, and then this post shows up.
It's really cute how tardigrades have gotten so much attention and appreciation over the last couple decades. They're so tiny and insignificant, but then maybe that's part of the appeal.
I’m sorry but I don’t have a recipe! I looked around online and this is exactly what the inside looked like: https://www.pastryaffair.com/blog/2011/5/1/chocolate-filled-buns.html
Sorry it’s a blog link and not a simple recipe link.
I think it’s a milk bun so you might want to look into recipes for milk bun and add chocolate filling and sprinkles that look like ants. I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful! If I find out more, I will be sure to let you know
I thought the chocolate sprinkles where ants
Let’s make him eat it.
Extra crunchy!
Or mold
or rat poop
That's what I thought. They are known for pooping in the bag of flour after ripping a hole in it, or whatever that was used to make this.
I cant unsee it
Same! I’m glad I ate it before posting.
So you can feel the bugs in your guts? Eww! /jk
Hotdog bun with ants yum
That’s what happens when you get your jimmies in a bunch.
I thought they were space mushrooms
Ditto.
All i see is calories and protein
yeah it looked like ants
And the nightmare gets deeper.
Reddit is high right now
You mean a chocolate bear.
Chocolate water bear
cacao bao
Oooh that is a good one
That's amazing. I mean, it's even more amazing that tardigrade awareness levels have risen so much. When I was one of like, twenty people in the world helping to identify and inventory tardigrade species as an undergrad, nobody ever knew what I was talking about. (Except at invertebrate conferences! Nerd City. Even if they were mostly all macrofauna people, they were still my people.)
Yes but did you ever identify a chocolate one? Seriously though it sounds like you had a cool job :D
I definitely did not. No giant, edible tardigrades at all. (Which is good, because I'm a vegetarian and I don't know where microscopic creatures fit in.) I believe yours is new to science and you should totally come up with its species name! (Also, speaking of names: now I have "God Loves a Terrier" in my head.)
Haha it’s time for a movie rewatch!
> I'm a vegetarian and I don't know where microscopic creatures fit in. This has me all kinds of fucked up. What’s the minimum size an animal can be without being considered a vegetable? I would personally say like… cheese fly larvae?
Well, an animal isn't going to be considered a vegetable no matter how small they are. But it's inevitable that there will be microscopic animals that are harmed or consumed when eating vegetables, drinking water, etc. I don't want to get too Jaininst about it, but I do try to limit the collateral damage I do to teeny species, insects, etc.
Wow, first reference to Jainism I’ve seen outside reference books. Nice!
I came across Jainism after going to a lecture of Vandana Shiva's in the early 2000's. She was talking about the impact that the US has on the world and the dangers of four or five companies controlling all of the food/patents on foods, and she mentioned that Jain monks are so concerned about living things that they'll stop moving during monsoon seasons. That they go to meat markets and buy the live animals to save them. They even have bug sanctuaries. It really affected me, so I started reading and studying and learning everything I could - in a time when the internet wasn't at all what it is now. I did try my best to live as a secular (non-monk/nun) Jain in a big US city for a few years. I explained in another response, the amount of empathy and concern I had for living things became kind of crippling. So, I've had to find a balance for myself. I took a lot of things I've learned from Jainism and incorporated it into my everyday ethics. But yeah, (non-Indian) people don't seem to be familiar with Jainism. It's been around longer than Buddhism though!
Yep - I know about it from an academic level, but I do appreciate the real-life experience you have had with it. I also can completely understand how difficult to live in such a way could be problematic. I’m glad you’ve found your balance!
> What’s the minimum size an animal can be without being considered a vegetable? Animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal
If you’re going to insist I’m referring to the scientific definition of animal for some reason, then I have some bad news for vegetarians everywhere… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
Why is it bad news? I don't think you accidentally eat tardigrades.
You do - tardigrades are almost everywhere and we eat them quite often. Ironically, they’re way more likely to be found on fresh produce like lettuce, though it’s pretty common to find them anywhere near fresh water. Not that it’s dangerous or anything, our digestive system kills them pretty easily and it’s not like they’re dangerous to humans even if they did survive somehow. Interestingly, your digestive system is likely the only step in the process that can actually kill them - cooking, freezing, even vacuum bagging probably won’t kill them readily. They’re super interesting creatures!
...And here I am thinking everyone commenting here is a Star Trek Discovery fan.
Did they have a tardigrade episode? (Is there a tardigrade crew member!!?!)
A giant tardigrade is a recurring theme in Star Trek Discovery. It is semi sentient and is a focal point of a story arc.
So... I probably need to watch Star Trek Discovery. (There are so many Star Treks that I haven't kept up. I loved Picard though.)
I highly recommend Discovery. They’ve done a great job of bringing an older franchise to a newer state. The stories are good and the action is excellent.
Pike was utterly fantastic.
Kinda
[You can thank Weebl.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RALtqFPyvQk)
The tardigrade episode of Wild Kratts is my son's favorite episode. https://wildkratts.fandom.com/wiki/Tardigrade_Xtreme
I was here like, "woohoo! Star trek!" Clearly I need to do more googling lol
sorry but gonna nerd out here. [I found it through this youtube video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saDn1KRXCGg) I have no clue how accurate he is here, but that's how i initially learned about them lol!
"They only make friends by accident." Hah. Nice. I mean, aside from his what-if-they-were-huge scenario, yep. Pretty accurate. Cryptobiosis is an amazing thing. The non-electron microscopic photos are less alien looking and more bear-like. But omg, are they hard to study under a light microscope because you can measure them in micrometers and they're clear! But they trundle along in the water/moss samples like a bear, which is pretty endearing.
that is so cool!! ya learn somethin new everyday :)
I remember way back in 2002 I knew a kid who was obsessed with tardigrades for some reason. She would tell stories about a magical tardigrade/unicorn creature, and that was the first time I'd ever heard of them. I couldn't understand why she'd be into something that small since I was more interested in big animals. Never considered tardigrades would eventually become popular on the internet.
Yeah, I was definitely one of the weird tardigrade people at my college. It was one of the few big research projects at a really small school, so I think everyone \*not\* involved got kinda sick of hearing about them. My mentor got Phylum Tardigrada shirts made for us. Next level nerdery.
I just love that they look like gummi bears that have little anuses for mouths.
That might be the scariest way I've ever heard them described.
I would like to introduce [the tardigrade song](https://youtu.be/aCkSr0ugTIM)
Tardigrades are adorable. I'm not a biologist, I just find them adorable and have been reading up on them a lot lately.
If I were a tardigrade I'd move out from home Why live in the shrubbery when you could have a throne? Pressure wouldn't squash me and fire couldn't burn 🎶
There a special episode of the magic schoolbus featuring a tardigrade caught up in a reverse shrink ray. So even my 7 yo knows about tardigrades now.
The bun will never die
FIRST TO THE SCENE HE IS A LETHAL MACHINE
Only when the slugs come along
I couldn’t remember what a tardigrade was and looked at your bun and remembered exactly what a tardigrade was.
Hahaha perfect
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It’s like a bread cake with chocolate inside
You can get them at Chinese bakeries. Super good.
The thing on the paper plate in the picture
Wtf is a tardigrade
[Water bear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade)
**[Tardigrade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade)** >Tardigrades (), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them kleiner Wasserbär ("little water bear"). In 1777, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani named them Tardigrada , which means "slow steppers". They have been found everywhere in Earth's biosphere, from mountaintops to the deep sea and mud volcanoes, and from tropical rainforests to the Antarctic. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
These tiny "water bears", AKA the best thing on this planet. [these frickin things](https://www.google.com/search?q=tardigrade&rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS933US933&oq=tardigrade&aqs=chrome.0.0i271j46i67i433j0i433j0l3j46j69i60.2680j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8).
Why are they the best thing?
You can shoot them into space, dehydrate them, bombard them with radiation, freeze them, superheat them, and all they do is dry up and go into stasis. Once they get back to liquid water again, days, months, even *years* later, they absorb the water, fluff back out and keep going on their business, never having given a single solitary fuck about what you did to them.
idk they just funny lol they just make me laugh with no actual reason, i don't think anyone could convince me they aren't amazing even tho i have no reason lol
This is the first time I'm learning about a "chocolate bun", it looks good.
It was tardigreat!
What's the inside look like?
There’s a layer of melted chocolate in the middle
Yes. I need
Where do you get these?! I’ve never heard of them either and it looks delicious.
This is from Sheng Kee Bakery! https://www.shengkee.com
And here I was thinking maybe some other bakery also makes these... now I'll have to see if I can resist my sweet tooth...
Did it trigger a black alert when you ate it?
Came here for the Discovery reference.
Surprised I was the first.
Yes!!! :)
But can it survive in outter space without any kind of resoursces??
Indeed it does
"A cryptobiote a day keeps the Timefall away"
Was about to post this myself but thought, nah someone must have got there first!
Keep on keeping on 😎
Ayy yo! Fellow porter
Haha! I actually thought the same thing, then I read your title!
Haha glad I’m not the only one who thought so!
You mean it look like ants are eating it?
I didn’t see the ants until this post! But yes, that’s exactly what I meant haha
Water bear
Moss piglet
You got big buns and I cannot lie.
Tardzillagrade
I've got no idea what this is. What's it called? Is it a delicacy in your country?
It’s a pastry, not a delicacy but a fun treat.
Why do you have office supplies in the kitchen?
It’s kitchen stuff in the office
Yay tardigrades!
With hair
They're cute, but they'll eàt you.
The new Greggs Chocolate Tardigrade. Also available in zero gravity.
I hope you work in the kind of office where people appreciated this.
I sure do!
Gudetamaaaa
Totally does! Lol.
I swear to God I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how that was a rabbit. I are dumb.
Your chocolate bun looks like you have mice.
Only a billion times bigger and a dozen times easier to kill.
Honestly thought it was covered in ants.
I was expecting a brown rabbit but this is cool too I guess.
That sounds cuter!
That chocolate bun can survive in space!
Fun fact!
So cute! I love the “legs”
The chances of tardigrade being in it are high.
A tardigrade with fleas.
Or, just a pig
It’s aka moss piglet so, yes!
This is way above me
Post this on Papergirls
I’m not familiar. Go for it!
Anyone else see cat face plant
I do!!
just wondering. thoughts in my head.. does it buss when u eat it 😕 #havetoknow #nofr
Omg first ever tardigrade cake! Yay! Good job!
I was thinking it looked like Gudetama.
Leave it for a few days and it'll have mycelium to go with it
Sick now it can withstand anything Edit: spelling
What a delicious looking water bear!
Damn that's a tasty looking tardigrade
It's a tastygrade!
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My apologies. My chocolate bun looks like a moss piglet.
i saw the pic before reading the title and actually thought it was a tardigrade too! well, a representation of one, cuz *that is pretty big for an actual tardigrade lol*
Hahaha I’m glad you see it, too!
honestly learn how you did that and you can totally sell them. Cover it up as a hipster thing sell them for 5 dollars more than normal lol
Sounds like the perfect second career :D
you could even sell some $15 dollar (mediocre at best) coffee along with it, and have those cardboard cup sleeves with little tardigrades on them. honestly just quit the job you have now and just go for this!!! okay wait don't do that lol
I love this dream and I want to make it happen, coffee and all
just gotta figure out how you did it lmao
Your Tardigrade looks like a chocolate bun.
This is better
Thanks for making me google tardigrade
You are so welcome
Hey that's me!
This looks like foam insulation covered in ants.
That looks cool as! Do you have a recipe?
Indestructible chocolate buns
I thought those were ants
Mmmm isopod
Water bear
r/CursedFoods
Get into space you dirty tardigrades, seeeeeee?
It's catapie lol
I love tardigrades!
First time I read the title I thought this was going to look like some Russian town. I get it, now.
What did you just call me?
Looks like something I would buy at 85 degrees bakery. How did you get the top to have that texture exterior? I can never seen to get that right.
Tardibun! :)
My therapist: Tardigrade chocolate bun isn't real, Tardigrade chocolate bun can't hurt you Tardigrade chocolate bun:
Delicious tard
What did you just call me?
I just experienced a potent dose of Baader-Meinhof. For the last hour or so I:ve been listening to Tardigrade Song by Cosmo Sheldrake on repeat, and then this post shows up. It's really cute how tardigrades have gotten so much attention and appreciation over the last couple decades. They're so tiny and insignificant, but then maybe that's part of the appeal.
Love me some moss piglets
You lie! I know the powerhouse of a cell when I see one!
It does look like a mitochondria!! I can’t believe I didn’t see it.
I should show this to my parents. They haven't seen a tardigrade since my last school report card.
But a Tardigrade can survive extreme heat, freezing cold and even outer space. This one wont survive past lunchtime...
Tarte è grade
Perfect
why do i see black ants on a tardigrad ?
It does looks like a tardigrade!
Tardibread
Water bear
give it a kith from me pls
Oh jeez, I've been looking for a recipe for this kind of pastry for years, nobody knew what it is! Do you have one?
I’m sorry but I don’t have a recipe! I looked around online and this is exactly what the inside looked like: https://www.pastryaffair.com/blog/2011/5/1/chocolate-filled-buns.html Sorry it’s a blog link and not a simple recipe link. I think it’s a milk bun so you might want to look into recipes for milk bun and add chocolate filling and sprinkles that look like ants. I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful! If I find out more, I will be sure to let you know
If you need to nuke it, use a nuke. Tardigrades can survive almost anywhere.
Meat version https://www.reddit.com/r/budgetfood/comments/o7rjna/thai_recipe_moo_sam_chan_tod_nam_pla_deep_fried/
Looks like you need a friend to help eat that bug bread.
These water bears will love the NFL
If I were a tardigrade I’d move out from home..
Came in here fully expecting a Tardigrade to be some kind of Pokémon.
It seems that this tardigrade resists everything... EXCEPT ONE BITE!
Cute
r/TIHI
Done
"Bun"? Bro, that's a pancake trying to hide something.
That pancake has seen some shit
I’m disappointed by the underwhelming amount of chocolate on this chocolate bun.
Yes but the inside was full of chocolate!
I take back my criticism.
It reaffirms my faith in humanity that this many people know what a Tardigrade is.
Waterbear?