Eating Human.....

[untamed]

^ I'm so looking forward to the film! Viggo Mortensen is one of the few actors I truly like!

 

[Suveges]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33574

 

[New Blades]

There are a few nice looking college girls walking around my neighborhood that I would eat.

 

[JCavSD]

mmmm....forbidden college girls....

 

[wintermute]

I watched a show once that said by the time most people are willing to eat each other the human meat doesn't hold much for nutrition.

Good point. So if you want to survive it has to be a conscious decision before you're stark raving mad from hunger. Want some meat on those bones. Plus emaciated long pig is probably really tough and stringy. You need a little fat in there to make it nice and juicy...nice sizzle on the fire.

We should juxtapose this thread with the current eating roadkill thread.

Hey, anyone want to go camping?

 

[Masteroffajitas]

If all hope was lost and they just died. But I wouldn't kill for human meat.

 

[Toucan Oasis]

I will definitely say that if it's my wife, no way I'm eating her.

Please be careful with your choice of words.
I'm a sensitive fellow

 

[Ken C.]

In an extreme survival situation I'll hunt you, I'll kill you, I'll eat you. I have no reservations about doing what I need to do to survive.

 

[valcas1]

I think it is very hard to actually comprehend this from the comfort of our chair in front of the keyboard.

I believe I could eat another human if it meant my survival. Even if it were my family that had died. It is all a mental game and your will to survive at any cost. That's my opinion at the moment.

 

[Bushman5]

you need tenderize the cut of meat, perhaps with a rock (rock works well too to dispatch your food), and then marinate the cut of meat in an acidic liquid, perhaps a whole bunch of ants crushed up and mixed with water. The acidic liquid tenderizes the meat and tends to remove some of the nasty human flavour (depending on the deceased's diet).

at this point rinse the cut clean and pat dry, perhaps basting in rendered fat and grilling slowly, adding hardwoods to the fire to smoke the meat and add flavour. Eats well with some fava beans and a nice chianti.



as Esav said.....

 

[Joben]

(Note to self)

Do NOT accept invitation for wilderness skills hike from J. Wade, Dylside, Talfuchre or Silverfoxknows!

This actually raises an interesting point...related to the one others have brought up about family members. In a survival situation obviously you would want to be able to trust the one's you're with.

If you take a responce like Ken C.'s above at face value...

If he would kill and eat you if the need arose, wouldn't he steal your boots or you canteen at the drop of a hat? Would he help support you if you busted an ankle?

 

[LMT66]

I think Babe Winklemans wife had a show about this. Anything is palatable with enough condiments and Shore lunch batter.

If my life depended on it......... pass me a couple ribs!

 

[Bushman5]

this is a great topic, it actually goes hand in hand with an article i'm currently writing, "Why Vegetarianism has no place in the wilderness"

 

[zhangmaster12]

Id rather die than eat family or friends. I know my family would never try to eat me, and Ill never be able to kill a family member. But if a friends tries to eat me, hes on the menu. As for random ppl, the answer is yes.

BUT only in an eat or die situation.

 

[mikeal]

There is a writeup floating around the Internet on how to do it properly. It it seems to be written just for shock value, but it was interesting anyway. It's been a while since I read it, but the two things I remember are:

1. Make sure they are very well done. Everything living in them can live in you.
2. Most of the meat is in the thighs.

 

[DRMUDD]

Do you think we'd taste better in chili con carne or a nice vegetable stew?

 

[keithcarter]

This very interesting subject goes to show the vast ignorance of we humans, who think we know so much.

Any human we eat is (usually) dead first. Of course, mosquitos and other bugs prefer us live, so they can get another meal tomorrow.

But rare is the American who has ever seen a dead person. Oh, yeah, funerals. But there the person is really chemically stabilized tissue covered in an opaque coating of petroleum-derived makeup. The reality is no one would go to Grandma's funeral if they could see her blackened lips, eyelids crazyglued together, and the wire through her gums holding her jaws together so her tongue doesn't hang out.

The reality of death is no fun, which is why we as a people insulate ourselves from it. We cremate in private, where in India the pyre is public. We bury in a vault, to preserve the looks of the deceased, not thinking of the oxygen-hating bacteria that will immediately start to grow over her face in thick patches. The most common comment at a funeral is "She looks so good". The makeup and chemicals make our ignorant brains feel better. The alternative is a stench of decay that would make a maggot gag.

Meat is meat, no matter what the source. Years ago in Africa human meat was considered a necessary part of the diet in some tribes. Even recently, eating the brains was considered a common funeral ritual. (Probably still is, even though some tribespeople were getting an equivalent of Mad Cow Disease from human neural viruses.)

I sometimes think we in medicine don't get paid for what we do, but for taking care of ugly things so others don't have to see them.

People like to discuss "How would we survive if an asteroid hit and all the food was wiped out?" Truly, as long as there are other humans wandering around, I'll have all the food I can eat.

Finally, The Donner party stuck in the mountains had 90% of the women survive and 90% of the men die. Thats because female metabolism stores much more fat than male, in order to produce an infant, and the Donner women lived off the energy in their greater adipose tissue (fat) stores.

So the lesson here is - eat the women first.

 

[dipbait]

you need tenderize the cut of meat, perhaps with a rock (rock works well too to dispatch your food), and then marinate the cut of meat in an acidic liquid, perhaps a whole bunch of ants crushed up and mixed with water. The acidic liquid tenderizes the meat and tends to remove some of the nasty human flavour (depending on the deceased's diet).

at this point rinse the cut clean and pat dry, perhaps basting in rendered fat and grilling slowly, adding hardwoods to the fire to smoke the meat and add flavour. Eats well with some fava beans and a nice chianti.



as Esav said.....

From the Jeffery Dahmer cookbook?

 

[charadeur]

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

 

[Bushman5]

From the Jeffery Dahmer cookbook?

mope, using crushed ants is something some bush people do to tenderize wild game and add a spicy flavour.

the fava beans and chianti is from Dr Hannibal Lecters school of fine dining....