# Does anyone else enjoy the taste of blood? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 9, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-enjoy-the-taste-of-blood/425778 "2007-11-09T14:25:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-enjoy-the-taste-of-blood/425778/21 "2007-11-09T20:50:34Z")
I like the taste of blood. To the point that, after I patched up the wife a few weekends ago, I was strongly tempted to lick the blood off my fingers (she had cut herself, and bled everywhere… I applied first aid, and she is fine). I didn’t, as it had started to dry and was loosing it’s appeal, and I was worried the wife would freak out. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-enjoy-the-taste-of-blood/425778/22 "2007-11-09T21:07:24Z")
Yes, I find that feasting on other people’s blood is just not the same when it is starting to congeal. Anyway, I have always assumed, in what is probably a total WAG, that that not-unpleasant metallic tang is down to the iron in the haemoglobin, which I vaguely remember from Biology lessons. I am probably totally wrong about that. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-enjoy-the-taste-of-blood/425778/23 "2007-11-10T00:44:45Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] Cooked blood, in things like kishka or duck blood soup, is good. Can’t say I’d care to drink a glass raw, though. [/QUOTE] Downing a glass of cobra blood is supposed to be the sign of a real man in certain quarters here. Guess I’ll remain a wimp. Drinking snake blood is more of a Chinese thing, though, I believe. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-enjoy-the-taste-of-blood/425778/24 "2007-11-10T00:46:15Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] I just accidentally gave myself a needle stick with a hypodermic needle earlier on this morning. [/QUOTE] So how long HAVE you been a junkie anyway? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-enjoy-the-taste-of-blood/425778/25 "2007-11-10T01:08:06Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] So how long HAVE you been a junkie anyway? 😃 [/QUOTE] Recovered. Three hours. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-enjoy-the-taste-of-blood/425778/26 "2007-11-10T03:03:22Z")
I confess, after reading a lot of Evangelion stories, and being in general good health\*, I’ve sometimes wondered exactly what blood tastes like myself, and what the best way of finding out would be. \*I just don’t end up bleeding that often, or with much volume. I did, however, once gouge my finger so I could check the back of a bank deposit envelope in blood (I didn’t have a pen). ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-enjoy-the-taste-of-blood/425778/27 "2007-11-10T18:21:18Z")
I like sucking on small wounds, and find the bloodiness of medium cooked meat to be tasty as well. But when I had a tooth taken out, either the amount of blood in my mouth or else the fact that it went “stale” or perhaps that it was combined with cotton turned me off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-enjoy-the-taste-of-blood/425778.md?page=1)