# Looking for a word similar to CANNIBLE **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 7, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100 "2004-10-07T21:35:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100/41 "2004-10-08T17:07:43Z")
Ya know…? I’m fixin to get my 1920s style death ray out and fry up a mess of y’all. Who wants a nibble of canned sapients? ---
**Author:** ![Satyagrahi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@Satyagrahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satyagrahi)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100/42 "2004-10-08T17:19:15Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > ::: trying desperately to divert this thread from the strange direction it’s taken ::: > Only happens in Turkish remakes of Japanese monster movies! I like the image but I must nitpick: Make that _Greek_ remakes of Japanese monster movies as the Turks do not call it by its original Greek name… I still like the image. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100/43 "2004-10-08T17:22:44Z")
Carp is delicacy in the right bayou neighborhoods. Steamed and slow cooked 'til the bones get soft then baked in a pie. (think canned salmon/halibut) mm-good gonna have me some polycarp pie for supper. er ‘scuse me, just call it fishpie and holler when it’s done. Anybody want the recipe? 1920’ style death ray…indeed 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100/44 "2004-10-08T17:29:11Z")
00s Style Fish Pie Now there’s an idea for Weebl ! ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100/45 "2004-10-08T18:37:00Z")
So **NCB** let me see… in making a fishpie we could use **canned** fish…that’s gotta link with the OP somehow. Carpivore? ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100/46 "2004-10-08T18:43:09Z")
> [@t-keela](#): > > How about a Guanovore…what might that taste like? :dubious: Like shit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100/47 "2004-10-08T18:46:35Z")
> [@EvilAsh](#): > > Like shit. 😃 thankyou…thankyou, very much. I’s afraid I’d whooshed everybody with that one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100/48 "2004-10-08T19:12:08Z")
You can tune a tuba in the Yukon, but you can’t tuna fish canned carp in the cancan at Cancun? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100/49 "2004-10-08T19:39:16Z")
> [@EvilAsh](#): > > Like shit. 😃 Then you’d have **polycrap**. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100/50 "2004-10-08T19:56:33Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Then you’d have **polycrap**. and how long have you been waiting for that opportunity. An OP about fishes and shit and poly posting all in the same thread? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100/51 "2004-10-08T20:06:57Z")
Being a ravenous cephalophage, I hate it when my dentures come loose while eating. That’s why I keep them firmly in place with **Polycrap** [sup]TM[/sup]! Works great as tile grout, too! Try it today! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-similar-to-cannible/268100.md?page=2)