Now that is a band name if ever I saw one! 
I took the pitting to be more for the incident where the guy killed his pregnant wife to eat her, and not the incidents where the people eaten were already dead.
Was there still room to draw a little sun up in the corner?
My understanding is that historians have always read about the cannibalism in written accounts of the time, but been reluctant to actually believe it, suspecting it was exaggeration or rhetorical flourish.
Okay, this cracked me up.
Well, I think it is another degree of bad to kill your family and eat them. Worse still to dig up a buried and partly-rotted corpse and chow down- that’s what I’m really putting the label ‘necrocannibal’ onto. Obviously most cannibalism victims are going to end up dead… anyway, it is hard to believe that people would not prefer death to eating something out of a grave.
Sorry, hmmm, let’s see… What did the Brit say after he ate his wife?
Bloody good!
How’s that?
But they only now have physical evidence for this one. Before now it could be doubted- and since this goes a step further than the other stories, I preferred it that way. Pardon me if my monocle pops out into my tea when archaeology confirms stories like this.
I’ve read about it happening during the siege of Rome. Also, there is evidence of cannibalism among the Puebloan Indians of the Southwest, but it isn’t clear if it was for reasons of survival or if they cracked up in some other way. Seems pretty rare overall.
Yes!
Ladies annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd Gentleman, please put your hands together for Zombie John Smith and the Jamestown Necro’s!
Entirely my fault.
I was doing a little time travel, dropped into Jamestown to check it out. This young woman walks by and I say “wow, she looks good enough to eat”. Next thing I know…
Teach me to use modernisms in pre-modern cultures.
I, for one, am going to refer to barbeque as “Carbonado” for the rest of my life.
There are reports of it during the Siege of Leningrad as well. Understandable–once you’ve eaten all of the dogs and the Hermitage cats and you’re reduced to eating wallpaper paste scraped off the walls, Comrade Ivan’s scrawny, recently deceased corpse is going to look pretty scrumptious.
Fair warning to all: If I am in danger of literally starving, and your cold, dead corpse is in front of me, I’m chowing down.
I had to look up Alfred Packer on wikipedia. Interesting story.
Are the Green Bay Packers named after him?
You can have my cold, dead corpse when you pry it away from my cold, dead fingers.
They also made a movie about him.
He was generally known as Alferd Packer. And I give you the Alferd Packer Restaurant & Grill at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Deal!
I’m confused about the Pitting. So some colonists ate dead human bodies to survive. Fair enough, it happens in emergency situations.
Some guy killed his pregnant wife and baby and was hanged for it. Again, sounds like a just punishment.
Who did wrong and where?
As well, there were many reports of Japanese troops involved in eating captured airmen and local villagers. This is documented in Antony Beevor’s The Second World War
Am I the only one who misread the thread title as Jonestown?
Based on our other threads about food, I assume the complaint is that they didn’t eat them with bacon.
That and at the feast some cannibals weren’t willing to move over a seat so that the cannibal friends could all eat together.