# cannibalism

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 12, 1999, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296 "1999-12-12T22:13:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![nid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b487fb/32.png) [@nid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nid)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296/1 "1999-12-12T22:13:00Z")

</div>

is eating yourself considered cannibalism?  
if not what is it?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![J.Alora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@J.Alora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J.Alora)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296/2 "1999-12-12T22:23:00Z")

</div>

What, you mean like fingernails, scabs, or boogers? Or perhaps an amputated limb?

Yuck. I’d rather eat another person.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296/3 "1999-12-12T22:36:00Z")

</div>

I guess you might be an \*autophage, although I can’t actually find that word in any references.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296/4 "1999-12-13T01:54:00Z")

</div>

No, it’s called being very flexible. 😉

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296/5 "1999-12-13T02:41:00Z")

</div>

I don’t know but if you do, does it taste like chicken?

* * *

“Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.”

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296/6 "1999-12-13T05:26:00Z")

</div>

Well, if he’s anything like most people, he tastes more like pork than chicken.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296/7 "1999-12-13T14:16:00Z")

</div>

Well,Louie,from what I heard,“You” don’t need to be that flexible! 😉

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296/8 "1999-12-13T16:00:00Z")

</div>

So do vegetarians avoid oral sex?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Lucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296/9 "1999-12-13T16:17:00Z")

</div>

Not at all, handy. We just don’t swollow.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Lucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism/5296/10 "1999-12-13T16:18:00Z")

</div>

Uh, that’s swallow. Dammit.