# Do Black People Taste Different Then White People? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454 "2011-07-18T15:29:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/61 "2011-07-19T19:52:36Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > I suppose you could start by eating people of many races from a group of people who wouldn’t be missed, like politicians or used-car salesmen. Are you kidding me, don’t you know how hard it is to clean one of those? ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/62 "2011-07-20T13:53:42Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Not quite, but a nice white Zinfandel pairs with either. Let’s not be snobs here! I believe the “standard” is with fava beans and a nice Chianti… ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/63 "2011-07-20T16:11:18Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#): > > still with the outsized pot method of cooking Where are they getting giant iron pots anyway? They don’t grow in the jungle. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/64 "2011-07-20T17:19:15Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > I believe the “standard” is with fava beans and a nice Chianti… The Chianti was only in the movie. The book had… some other, more sophisticated wine, don’t remember what. No, I don’t know what that means either, but according to wine snobs, Book Hannibal [del]had better taste[/del] had a more refined palate. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/65 "2011-07-20T19:15:23Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Upon further thought. It turns out that people can detect the major histocompatibility complex, an important component of the immune system by scent, and it affects whether they find someone attractive or not. So, wild speculation time: Scent is a component of taste, and the different “races” _might_ just have enough of a consistent difference in their MHCs to lend them a different taste. Now that is serious talk. Is it the OP’s wish ? ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/66 "2011-07-20T20:22:42Z")
This raises the question of who a zombie would eat first ? Quick serious point, on a trailer for a documentary about cannibals on British t.v., a tribesman said that he’d eaten both men and women and they tasted the same. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/67 "2011-07-21T14:24:25Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > They represent the [Blue People.](http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyperry3/Blue_Fugates_Troublesome_Creek.html) Thanks, runner pat! 🙂 A very interesting story! Knowledge, expanded! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/68 "2011-07-21T14:30:55Z")
> [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](#): > > Based on my observations, white pussy & black pussy taste just the same. I will concur that they taste _about_ the same, but “black pussy” is most definitely, _ **JUICIER!** _ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/69 "2011-07-21T14:40:13Z")
I’m confused. It seems the OP graced us with his one and only post, then lost his way back to this site to find the answer to his question. Makes me think… ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/70 "2011-07-21T15:14:19Z")
…Somebody ate him? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Wisthekiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wisthekiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wisthekiller)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/71 "2011-07-21T21:55:58Z")
IIRC some cannibals were interviewed and asked. According to them the Japanese are the best, Americans are too salty, and people kinda taste like SPAM. There’s no joke in that. That’s how it is. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/72 "2011-07-21T23:07:54Z")
> [@Wisthekiller](#): > > IIRC some cannibals were interviewed and asked. According to them the Japanese are the best, Americans are too salty, and people kinda taste like SPAM. > > There’s no joke in that. That’s how it is. _ **Spam?!** _ Really?!? Spam is pretty damn salty as it is, IMO. And Americans are _ **saltier** _, than Spam? I would have guessed… (Wait for it…) Chicken! \ Hey! Somebody had to do it! ---
**Author:** ![pete66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8c91f0/32.png) [@pete66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pete66)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/73 "2011-07-21T23:54:06Z")
Soylent Green is People! I wonder if it was discussions like this that got that started. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/74 "2011-07-22T01:36:27Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > This raises the question of who a zombie would eat first ? > > Quick serious point, on a trailer for a documentary about cannibals on British t.v., a tribesman said that he’d eaten both men and women and they tasted the same. WWZJE? I am sooo going to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/75 "2011-07-22T04:01:44Z")
> [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](#): > > Based on my observations, white pussy & black pussy taste just the same. Bah. Anecdotal evedence, at best. We’re going to need a lot of volunteers, and some blindfolds. It’s time for _ **SCIENCE!!** _ We’re also going to need a palate cleanser of some kind. Sorbet, maybe some crackers. – This could be the best dopefest ever . . . ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/76 "2011-07-26T04:36:41Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Since this is about food, I’m moving it to Cafe Society. > > Colibri > General Questions Moderator Funniest thing in the whole thread. :p:p ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/77 "2011-07-26T11:05:31Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > We’re also going to need a palate cleanser of some kind. Sorbet, maybe some crackers. " Hey, you got graham cracker’s in my pubic hair !! Well, you got pubic hairs on my graham crackers. Two great tastes that taste great together !!! " :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/78 "2011-07-26T12:32:52Z")
Just don’t roast the missionaries, they’re friars. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/79 "2011-07-26T22:19:15Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Just don’t roast the missionaries, they’re friars. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454/80 "2011-07-29T03:24:37Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > This raises the question of who a zombie would eat first? The tender, sweet young thing. Or is that tigers? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-taste-different-then-white-people/589454.md?page=5)