Taboo food and drink

Interesting article indeed.

The biggest "common" taboos around here are probably dog or horse. Just because Americans are kinda nuts about dogs and horses and think eating them is beyond yucky.

I thought the bit about capybara being declared a fish was funny.
 
Not sure if I could do it - I never travel by bus in Canada so don't get that sort of Munchies. (What sort of castrophic failure happened in his brain?) In reality it clearly occurs moderately frequently when people are put in extreme survival situations - and it is life or death. Outside that, it seems to occur only in buses in Canada or through newspapers in Germany

There were some prisoners in the early days of the penal colonies here - who would escape with a walking "sandwich". One recpatured alone after doing this several times claimed it tasted better than pork.

Have to watch out - remember "laughing sickness" from New Guinea. White missionaires could not find out why only women and children got this strange diseass. Turned out the men got the real pork and the women and children got the long pork - it was a long pork disease

In reality it is analagous to mad cow- or mad man. Ugly things can occur if you feed an animal back to the same animal - especially if they are not in good health.

if you are doing it - ditto the previous post - young well reared solid build person. However in any situation this is likely to come up - barring pane crash at high altitude this is not likely to be available

This is a great thread to think about before lunch! Might go for a salad today
 
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I would eat my own clothes before I eat some of those things Ive seen Bear Grylls eat. That grub popper was disgusting!
 
A Filipino friend of mine was telling me about all the funky things that his family grew up on before coming to the states and some of them were just ungodly.

For instance, take a dog, any dog will do. Now you need to starve said dog for a good long time, make sure he's really well evacuated.

Once your dog is good and hungry, feed him all the rice and water he can handle. Just keep feeedding and feeedding and feeedding until he's about to pop.

Now it's time to off the puppy. Once he's out of commission, you promptly remove his stomach, already pre-stuffed with rice and bake at around 350 for about an hour.

Season to taste and serve.

And with this a thought: I wonder how PETA is doing at their third world headquarters.
 
Not going the Asian food thing - value of human and other life is clearly quite different in 3rd world countries (beacause it must)

Solyent green - very prohetic. Harvesting the oceans but the oceans dying off due to pollution - sound familiar??

In the Australian Special Forces Entrance test - they make the most disgusting food gloop possible entrails colourings ... and if candidates show any hesitancy to eat they fail.

Readign a book recently by an SAS mentioned goats heads ...... I reckon special forces contact/local liaison teams could really fill out this thread.
 
Man. I just watched ALIVE yesterday, and I was wondering who had the stones to eat humans if in a situation like that. I could, and I would. The selling point to me was when they were talkin bout it and he said that if he died, and he knew his body could possably save lives then he would be pissed if they didnt eat him. I think alot of people would share those thoughts. Its a wicked subject, but survival is wicked.
 
You know why cannibals don't eat clowns......they taste funny! Man I love cheesy jokes.


Seriously though, if I died in a survival situation I would not be upset if I was eaten. Leave my head and cash and prizes alone and we are good. I mean I would be dead if I wanted to haunt you I could always float after you. As far as me eating another person, not sure if I could do that. The sight of animal blood doesn't bother me but the sight of human blood makes me queezy. I guess if it was cooked I would eat it and not know any better.

The real question is, Would you eat yourself? Carve off a hunk of thigh and ask for ketchup.
 
I'll eat most things if need be. I've only had a couple of fail type things. 1] After delighting in putting the case that shrimps and prawns aren't too dissimilar to woodlice I hatched a plan. Pop woodlouse into mouth and pass it across to playmate during a kiss. I popped in the louse and sat with it roaming around my mouth for a few minutes so as not to arouse suspicion. Some when during the transfer it became clear that it had babies, loads of them, and had shed them all over my tongue. Too funny. Fail. 2] Totally brained down an alley smoking a long one with two women I just met. I thought they were a bit dizzy so I decided to serve them up some. Dunno what got into me but I figured I could chomp the snail on the wall shell and all. Kinda had this notion it would be like a thick egg shell. As you know, it's more akin to grabbing a shell off the beach and trying to bite through it. Oops. Yup, I have excelled at dumb stuff. Drink the contents of the deep fat fryer, crispy bits and all. How many inches of garlic puree on a handful of catfood. Special applause goes to an amigo who wanted to eat the goldfish. I told him he could have them if he could chug them down with the water like an egg in milk. He picked up the 2'*1' tank...., yup, valiant effort.
 
orrey45 said:
The real question is, Would you eat yourself? Carve off a hunk of thigh and ask for ketchup.
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Stephen King wrote a great story about this situation, its called Survivor Type. its in one of his short story books, ie: Skeleton Crew or Night Shift.

was very well written, i fully recommend reading that story as well as both those books. -- Eric
 
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Stephen King wrote a great story about this situation, its called Survivor Type. its in one of his short story books, ie: Skeleton Crew or Night Shift.

was very well written, i fully recommend reading that story as well as both those books. -- Eric[/QUOTE

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There is no need to,.
Your body starts cannibalizing itself at some point. Your body starts breaking down the protein in your organs and muscles.

Dont be dramatic and cut a stake off you. Your body will do it :D
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As a child, I was shown by my caregiver what it was to go hungry. All I'll say here, is that you cannot say what you will and won't eat until you are starving.
 
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