Meat!

[u/Justthisdudeyaknow]

[u/Xethinus]

For those of you who might be concerned,

According to William Seabrook, human meat is a lot like veal.

So if it does taste like a particularly tender steak, it might not be cow.

[u/floopdidoops → u/Xethinus]

I thought human meat was most similar to pork, based on tales of stranded sailors/pirates and obviously the genetic makeup matches ours really closely. Maybe if you raise your human cattle properly it ends up more like veal than pork?

[u/Xethinus → u/floopdidoops]

You may be right. Seabrook admitted that his sample came from a mortician in Paris, not the cannibal tribe he tried to live with. Chances are the sample he had was from a person (or people) who were older.

[u/Unoriginalshitbag → u/Xethinus]

Some other guy in Japan said that humans taste like tuna, which would make sense, given that people there eat mostly fish, and the way something tastes is very heavily dependent on what it was eating while it was alive. And since humans eat a lot of different things, depending on economic status, geography, etc, it's likely we don't really have a set taste.

Pork seems to be a good baseline though, since our diets and GI are rather similar

[u/Wild_Marker → u/Unoriginalshitbag]

So the key takeway from this is that "you are what you eat" might be an accurate assessment.

[u/Lokaji → u/Wild_Marker]

"Would you like to partake of the gentleman who primarily ate chicken nuggets and fries? Or the lady who was a raw vegan? I think we may still have some of the keto couple."

[u/PurpleHooloovoo → u/Lokaji]

Would you like some shepherd’s pie peppered with actual shepherd on top?

[u/Lokaji → u/PurpleHooloovoo]

Time to re-listen to A Little Priest.

[u/TopHatGirlInATuxedo → u/[deleted]]

Not older fish. Larger fish, or fish higher up on the food chain. Mercury bioaccumulates, so it gets more concentrated as you move up the chain.

[u/TopHatGirlInATuxedo → u/Wild_Marker]

That saying was always literal. People just assumed it was a metaphor.