Amalgamation of "
shit" and "
meat", animal tissue engineered in a petri dish, sponsored by PETA, supposedly with the aim of replacing
meat for consumption.
"Shmeat is such a horrible
name, it sounds like what you get when you cross
shit and meat." -- cdog, offalgood.com article comment
"If it looks like an egg yolk made of
blood, it's shmeat"