List of Food "EVIL" People Liked

Markxxx · January 13, 2009, 12:52am

I guess it’d depend on who you consider evil, but anyway

Does anyone know what kind of foods, evil people like Hitler or Stalin or Mussolini, or Pol Pot liked?

I know Idi Amin and Bokassa like to eat people

But it’d be cool to find a list of food evil people liked. Then you could have a party with like Hitler Peanut Butter Sanwhiches. And Stalin Cracked Crab and Mussolini Tossed Salad etc etc etc

Markxxx · January 13, 2009, 12:54am

Oops sorry I meant to put this in Cafe Society. I’ll ask the mod to move it

samclem · January 13, 2009, 12:57am

I moved it, but it actually may have done better in General Questions. Let’s leave it here for now.

Ephemera · January 13, 2009, 1:05am

Hitler’s commonly considered a vegetarian. Not sure of the veracity of that claim, though.

Paul_in_Qatar · January 13, 2009, 1:32am

Hitler was found of pastries with lots of whipped cream. Oddly I cannot think of any food Stalin, Franco or Mao expressed any enthusiasm in at all. Other priorities I suppose.

panache45 · January 13, 2009, 1:34am

Well, there’s Jeffrey Dahmer . . . .

Johnny_L.A · January 13, 2009, 1:37am

He liked a dish called Sum Yung Guy.

Antinor01 · January 13, 2009, 2:00am

And he couldn’t bring himself to throw away the leftovers.

Peter_Morris · January 13, 2009, 3:01am

Not true. He sometimes went on diets when he ate only vegetables, but he was a meat eater most of the time.

Ichini_Sanshigo · January 13, 2009, 3:04am

Hitler had a weight problem?

Terrifel · January 13, 2009, 3:14am

I seem to recall reading that Hitler was allergic to meat, although he didn’t want to admit it. Eating too much gave him gas, so his doctor prescribed an all vegetable diet for him.

I also remember reading that the other Nazi leaders used to razz him about it. Hitler identified with wolves, even naming his HQ the “Wolf’s Lair,” and the other Nazis teased him about the fact that he couldn’t eat meat. Poor guy, being made fun of just on account of an allergy. Nazis were jerks.

devilsknew · January 13, 2009, 3:15am

Here’s the menu for a Unitarian Club Dinner back in 1899.

What? Everyone knows that Unitarians are evil.

Oysters, Shad, Vol au Vent, Lamb, and Mallard duck for the evildoers.

Peter_Morris · January 13, 2009, 3:26am

What I heard was that he suffered from flatulence during his vegetarian bouts.

Terrifel · January 13, 2009, 3:42am

I may well have it backwards then. Hitler Farts is not a topic on which I am willing to claim any authority.
Dracula reportedly dipped bread in the blood of his slain enemies. I think he just did that for effect though.

Johnny_L.A · January 13, 2009, 3:51am

I can’t vouch for the source, but:

This was an embarrassing problem for a ruthless leader of the Third Reich. With uncharacteristic concern for his fellow human beings, Hitler had first tried to cure himself when he was a rising politician in 1929 by poring over medical manuals, coming to the conclusion that a largely veg diet would calm his turbulent digestion as well as make his farts less offensive to the nose. A rabid hypochondriac, he would also examine his own feces on a regular basis and administer himself camomile enemas. Hitler decided to swear off meat completely in 1931, when his niece (and presumed romantic interest) Geli Raubel committed suicide: When presented with a plate of breakfast ham the next morning, he pushed it away muttering, “It’s like eating a corpse.” From that squeamish moment on, great piles of vegetables, raw or pulped into a baby mulch, were Hitler’s daily staple. (All cooked foods, he decided, were carcinogenic). He showed a particular fondness, culinary historians assure us, for oatmeal with linseed oil, cauliflower, cottage cheese, boiled apples, artichoke hearts and asparagus tips in white sauce. Strangely, Hitler was unfazed by the fact that this high-fiber diet was having the opposite effect on his digestion than what he had intended: His private physician, Dr. Theo Morell, recorded in his diary that after Hitler downed a typical vegetable platter, “constipation and colossal flatulence occurred on a scale I have seldom encountered before.”

Little_Nemo · January 13, 2009, 3:56am

I’ve read that Stalin had very simple tastes - he essentially like the peasant food he grew up on. But one trick he had was encouraging the people around him to drink a lot of vodka while he stayed sober.

Sierra_Indigo · January 13, 2009, 4:35am

This line made me laugh until my sides hurt for some reason…

Hippy_Hollow · January 13, 2009, 6:16am

I can’t believe I’m typing this but… BAND NAME!

devilsknew · January 13, 2009, 7:04am

Hitler Fahrts.

I glaub’ net dass ich so was schreiben, aber… Travel Agency Name.

Baraqiyal · January 13, 2009, 7:11am

I heard that Saddam Hussein fell in love with Doritos while he was in custody. I almost envy him, being able to remember his first Dorito.