# Placenta Soup

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/placenta-soup/412467>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [July 20, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/placenta-soup/412467 "2007-07-20T00:29:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/placenta-soup/412467/1 "2007-07-20T00:29:14Z")

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There’s [a woman who wants her placenta back](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070719/ap_on_fe_st/placenta_lawsuit;_ylt=AsJzcE7y5ii_EUsZFav7qp4EtbAF) in the news. I guess the whole placenta ingesting thing continues to sweep the nation, having gotten as far as Vegas. Of course, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

Kenghisghan

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**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/placenta-soup/412467/2 "2007-07-20T05:00:44Z")

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[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3\_104.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_104.html)

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/placenta-soup/412467/3 "2007-07-20T12:52:25Z")

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> The judge ordered the hospital not to destroy the placenta, which was frozen, and ordered that it be turned over to Swanson within two weeks

Swanson Frozen Placenta…mmm…

At our hospital, unless you act fast and get the OB staff to keep the placenta fresh, you wind up with placenta preserved in formalin. And that’s not the kind of pickled placenta that makes for good eatin’.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/placenta-soup/412467/4 "2007-07-26T14:00:28Z")

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Why, oh why, did I open this thread before lunch? Yuck. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/placenta-soup/412467/5 "2007-07-26T14:15:02Z")

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[QUOTE=kenghisghan]  
I guess the whole placenta ingesting thing continues to sweep the nation  
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Me, I prefer a Swiffer.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/placenta-soup/412467/6 "2007-07-26T14:16:57Z")

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I do NOT understand why this is even an issue! Let her have her own goddamn placenta! I may find it disgusting, and you may find it disgusting, and the hospital may find it disgusting, but it’s none of anyone’s business but hers and her placenta’s.

_grumble grumble damned establishment always butting in can’t even sell my eggs for science grumble grumble_

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**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/placenta-soup/412467/7 "2007-07-26T15:57:38Z")

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I want a placenta!!!

Wahhh!