Would You Eat In-Vitro Meat? 2.83K Jeff Neumann 01/30/11 12:51PM Filed to: Food Food Meat Test tube meat shutterstock Vladimir Mironov Scientist Vladimir Mironov is at work in a South Carolina lab creating "cultured" meat, which he calls "charlem" — "Charleston engineered meat." Just think, one day you could buy test tube meat from a machine in a grocery store. Mmmm.