Just wondering if a fat, sedentary human being would be preferred as a taste treat for discriminating cannibals vs a muscular athletic person.
Any data points on this? Extrapolations from eating animals with similar physiological differences?
I think that the fatter ones would taste better. Beef usually tastes better when it is nicely marbled as opposed to lean and stringy.
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Long pig tastes best cooked low and slow.
I don’t believe that the zombies give a damn, but the athletic type can, of course, run faster than the fat guy.
I’m not overweight, I’m “marbled”.
Nacho-fed human is the best.
A friend’s brother started raising chickens to eat (not for eggs), and I had some one night for dinner. Huge difference from the Foster Farms you buy at the grocery store ! The home raised chickens were much tougher, and far less flavor. Not sure how much of this is diet (and possibly hormones) vs. exercise. But it was clear there is a reason commercial chickens live pretty sedentary lives.
From this I would assume the same holds true for humans - more fat, more sedentary would be preferred. Athletic, though leaner and better for you, would not be as appetizing.
I have to say: I am SO relieved I am not the only one to ever wonder about the OP’s question.
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What parts of a human would be eaten? Is the flesh on a human thigh like eating a chicken leg? Because we don’t eat leg meat off cattle, right?
If someone could be helpful, maybe list what parts of a human we could eat and the comparison they would make, like human leg-frog leg, human arm-chicken wing, etc.
Asking for a friend.
In World War II, Japanese ate the leg of an American POW with soy sauce. “It was very healthy”.
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Bonus question: do you think they’d know to cook the obese person differently than the muscular athlete?
Why do you guys do this to me? You know I’m going to have to mention the veal.
Well, on The Walking Dead, they ate BBQ Bob’s leg. Looked like a leg of lamb. Kinda. Without mint jelly, of course, it’s the zombie apocalypse.
A thigh would be nicely-muscled from carrying the body around, and on a heavy person would have decent fat on the outside to help keep it from drying out during cooking. You might want to tenderize the thigh, though, since it does so much work it might be tough.
You’d think the glutes might be like a good steak.
What? Does Zim got notice that the invasion will come soon?
You have plenty of company, a fitness gym got into a controversy when their ads were protested by hefty people in San Francisco back in 1999.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Persons-of-heft-protest-health-club-s-ad-3305257.php
There’s only one way to find out.
A cannibal tells some anthropologists a long series of incredibly heroic tales that his assistant has pulled off over the years .
Just as he finishes, the assistant comes hopping in on one leg and can’t even speak because he is missing his tongue and his lips as well.
One of the anthropologists exclaims, “Oh my God, did he get injured when he was saving the baby from a shark or when he pulled your whole family from a burning building?”
The cannibal replies, “No, it is just when you have a man this good, you don’t eat him all at once.”
:rimshot: