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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Pamplona

‘Our imitation is total’: Spanish tech startup aims to put 3D-printed meat on our plates

3D-printed food
3D-printed food produced by Cocuus, including steak, bacon and oysters. Photograph: Markel Redondo/The Guardian

Cocuus, a cutting-edge tech startup headquartered in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Pamplona, embraces the cliches of its sector every bit as willingly as the drunken tourists who blithely entrust themselves to fate, horns and hooves during the Spanish city’s bull-running festival each July.

Table football? Check. Lager and IPA on tap? Check. Inspirational messaging – preferably an Alice in Wonderland homage that reads, “I believe in six impossible things before breakfast”? Check. What about some sci-fi memorabilia, perhaps a Tintin moon rocket and an Alien xenomorph head? Check. Obviously.

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