# Cannibalism trope **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958 "2020-01-05T02:17:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/61 "2020-01-09T20:32:48Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Well, the fact of the matter, is, that while people who lived in the tropics, particularly near large bodies of water, did NOT boil their laundry… Hey, I saw _ **Papillon** _. People who lived in the tropics had hardly any laundry to boil! :o ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/62 "2020-01-09T20:41:02Z")
> [@lingyi](#): > > I think we should do away with calling anything edible, nuts. As a guy it makes me a little self conscious and nervous! 😃 Avoid Jamie Oliver’s cooking shows. He likes to drop his beautiful, gorgeous nuts on the counter from a height and give 'em a good bash with a rolling pin! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/63 "2020-01-09T20:54:03Z")
Other uses of enormous cast-iron kettles: [Bugs Bunny in Little Hiawatha (1944) - YouTube](https://youtu.be/-UvR9A6dw4I?t=47)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/64 "2020-01-09T21:45:04Z")
The end of laundry-boiling would have been in the 1930s. FDR’s supporters often used an automatic washing machine as a symbol for him and his policies, because it was the TVA that brought electricity to rural parts of the country and enabled the use of electric appliances. Which caught on very quickly, because doing laundry by hand is a horrible chore. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/65 "2020-01-09T21:54:06Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The end of laundry-boiling would have been in the 1930s. FDR’s supporters often used an automatic washing machine as a symbol for him and his policies, because it was the TVA that brought electricity to rural parts of the country and enabled the use of electric appliances. Which caught on very quickly, because doing laundry by hand is a horrible chore. I’m pretty sure my grandparents, fresh off the boat from Austria-Hungary, did in their backyard in Milwaukee, too. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/66 "2020-01-09T22:01:33Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > …what I can never understand is where the hell did they get a giant, 4 foot diameter iron pot!? From 1976 I heard of the [Idi Amin Hot Tub](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGHFgW88dJU), which “will hold up to five full-grownup adults, plus a little room for some of the children, and lots of vegetables and onion and salt”. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/67 "2020-01-09T22:16:38Z")
What do you call a leper in a hot tub? Stu. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/68 "2020-01-09T22:25:42Z")
> [@lingyi](#): > > Is it from National Lampoon? I have the mags somewhere. No idea; but some of these sound like Hustler magazine’s taste in cartoons. > [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > I can buy that they cook people with their clothes on but what I can never understand is where the hell did they get a giant, 4 foot diameter iron pot!? Other than boiling missionaries what would do with a pot like that? ) You would use a pot that size to scald hogs in; you boil them just long enough so the hair and bristles will come off easily. Nowadays people use things like metal troughs. ETA: What did the cannibal say to the dinner guest who arrived late? “I’m sorry; everyone’s eaten.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/69 "2020-01-09T22:31:21Z")
You heard about the cannibal who walked into a pizza joint and asked for one with everybody? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/70 "2020-01-09T22:37:51Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Avoid Jamie Oliver’s cooking shows. He likes to drop his beautiful, gorgeous nuts on the counter from a height and give 'em a good bash with a rolling pin! :eek: He hates it when they get burned or oily, though. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/71 "2020-01-10T01:09:49Z")
The cannibal housewife was preparing dinner when she found she was out of baby oil. She went next door to borrow some only to find her neighbor was out, too. Fortunately, she did have some Olive Oyl to spare. ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/72 "2020-01-10T22:23:34Z")
If you arrive late to a cannibal dinner party you may be left with a cold shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/73 "2020-01-10T23:01:52Z")
If you’re into Mini-Golf and have a hankering for some humanary stew, there’s a [cannibal-themed hole](https://photos.app.goo.gl/nMe5Y2pZMrysRx9n7) at the course in Guerneville, CA. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/74 "2020-01-10T23:55:39Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > They ate a monkey that they killed with poison? Does that not affect you if you eat it? Curare, the famed South American arrow / dart poison is perfectly safe to eat in the amounts that is needed to kill a game animal via a puncture wound. In other parts of the world where the arrow poison is deadly when ingested, the area surrounding the hit (and most poison) is cut off the carcass, and the rest of the poison is sufficiently dispersed in the bloodstream of the animal to pose no problem for the (mostly muscle tissue) eaters. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/75 "2020-01-11T03:36:02Z")
At cannibal weddings, the bride and and groom are always toasted. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/76 "2020-01-11T03:58:55Z")
Do Mexican cannibals eat humanudo? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958/77 "2020-01-11T04:26:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Do Mexican cannibals eat humanudo? On Sundays it’s Tacos el Pastor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-trope/845958.md?page=3)