Human flesh: red meat or white meat?

Just wondering :smiley:

read meat i believe

Hmm, I did a quick scan through my copy of TO SERVE MAN - a cookbook for people (Karl Wurf, Owlswick Press) failed to find the subject or red or white adressed directly. However, Mr Wurf often compares menschfleish to pork. From this, I assume that human flesh is white meat.

Thew natives in New Guinea called it “long Pig”-------so I assume it must have be the ,“other white meat.”

Breast, or leg?

Pink like pigs.

Unable to choose a good red or white wine with your meal?

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Heh, last I heard, human meat is loaded with cholesterol, sodium, etc. I guess we really are what we eat huh?

But a sick part of me wonders, if human meat is full of all this unhealthy stuff, wouldn’t that just make us taste that much better? I know it was a common topic in a lot of horror stories about cannibalism- people who weren’t normally cannibals but once they discovered how delicious other people tasted, they went crazy go nuts and started pigging out on people. But it still makes you wonder- would dining on the abs of some couch potato be very tasty? All that well-marbled meat, probably tastes so strong you don’t even have to season it, what with all the beer and potato chips the guy probably consumed in his short life… :wink:

And an even more controversial question- what would constitute human veal? A human under six years of age? Or before puberty?

For a year, I embraced something called “Bug-Eye Vegetarianism.” Meat from mammals with big, human-type eyes (Beef, pork, lamb) was off the menu, but non-mammalian food from critters with little bug-like eyes (Seafood, poultry) was just fine. “Red meat” generally refers to the former, “white meat” to the latter. The pork industry likes to invite comparison to white meats so you’ll overlook the incredibly unhealthy content in their delicious product.

For all practical purposes, human flesh would be red meat. Go with a good, thick pasta and some marinara sauce with it. Buon appetito!

Wurf’s introduction deals with what type of human is the best meal.

I have heard that the meat of carnivores has an unpleasant taste. Theoretically one could attempt raise their own stock on a vegetarian diet. But, this is impractical for many reasons.

Here in Philadelphia, I’d think the best specimens would be those Buddhists, Hindus, and such who don’t consume meat for religious reasons. Not only would flavor not be a problem, many such individuals will refrain from commiting violence even when faced with death. This makes slaughtering a much easier process.

It’s the other other white meat.

Depends.

Muscle tissue that is more active have higher percentages of a protein called myoglobin, which stores extra oxygen for use by the muscle. Myoglobin makes meat red.

No, a runner who doesn’t do a lot of ab work, the legs and possibly the arms would be red meat, but the abdominal muscles would be white (or, more likely pink) meat.

Your average couch potato would be all white meat, plus a lot of fat.

Someone who walks a lot, but doesn’t get much in the way of other kinds of exercise would be red meat in the legs, but probably white meat elsewhere- hip and gleuteal muscles would most likely be pink.

An all-over well conditioned athlete, who did lots of cardio, free weights, strength training and ab work would probably be all red meat, with maybe a pit of pink in areas that weren’t as well worked.

Hope that helps.

Cite?

two cannibals eating a clown

…does this meat taste funny to you…? :smiley:

Two cannibals are sitting down at the dinner table when one of them heaves a big sigh.

The other cannibal asks: “What’s wrong?”

The first says: “Oh, I just can’t stand my mother-in-law.”

The other says: “So? Then just eat the vegetables.”

:smiley:

The difference between regular people and cannibals :

When a regular kid gets home, he asks : “What’s for dinner Mom ?”
When a cannibal kids gets home, he asks : “What’s for dinner… Mom?” :smiley:

Did you hear the one about the cannibal who dumped his girlfriend?

Think about it