# Is there an account of what humans taste like?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 29, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-account-of-what-humans-taste-like/247689 "2004-05-29T18:39:28Z")\
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**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:** [June 2, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-account-of-what-humans-taste-like/247689/41 "2004-06-02T14:47:45Z")

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Well, there’s a lot about Maori cannibalism here, but no one has mentioned the culture whose entire social structure was centered on cannibalism – the Aztecs. It’s notable that that society suffered from a lack of large domestic animals (basically they just had turkeys and dogs) which deprived them of significant sources of meat as well as methods for transporting non-meat food.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-account-of-what-humans-taste-like/247689/42 "2004-06-02T14:47:46Z")

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**Carnac the Magnificent** : (blows into envelope and removes card) The answer is, “Old Wive’s Tale”.

**Ed McMahon** : Old Wive’s Tale! And the question is…?

**Carnac the Magnificent** : (putting card to forehead) “What do cannibals eat last?”

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**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-account-of-what-humans-taste-like/247689/43 "2004-06-02T18:09:47Z")

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[Bugs Bunny]

I dub thee . . . Sir Loin of Beef!

[/Bugs Bunny]  
RR

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**Author:** ![zoltar7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b38774/32.png) [@zoltar7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoltar7)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-account-of-what-humans-taste-like/247689/44 "2004-06-02T18:37:50Z")

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The HBO America Undercover documentary [Cannibal: The Real Hannibal Lecters](http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/cannibal/) profiles Andrei Chikatilo, Arthur Shawcross, Jeffrey Dahmer and Issei Segawa. The piece includes interviews with Shawcross, and Segawa, as well as survivors of the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash.

The next [scheduled airing](http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_DETAIL=DETAIL&ID=93396) is Mon 6/21 at 02:55 AM on HBO2.

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