Belive it or not, Smithsonian magazine has an authoritative article on this subject:
*"Both serial killers and Polynesian cannibals have described human as being most akin to pork. But not all cannibals agree with this description. William Seabrook, an author and journalist, traveled to West Africa in the 1920s and later described an encounter with man-flesh in great detail in his book, Jungle Ways. Human, he said, in fact tastes like veal. Here’s Seabrook’s description:
It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have. The steak was slightly tougher than prime veal, a little stringy, but not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible. The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable."*
Tell me, Marion, do you consider yourself a well-marbled kind of gal? Do you like snakes? Are you open to the idea of meeting a new friend who is willing to pay for one-way airfare to meet him? Can you bring asparagus with you?
I’m not sure a fat person’s flesh would be “marbled.”
There would be a layer of lean meat, covered over by a layer of fat. Like a lean lamb chop with a thick piece of fat on the edge that you would carve off so it didn’t melt and ignite a grease fire on the grill.
To get your meat properly marbled, we would have to massage your gut gently over a period of weeks to work the fat into your flesh, before we butchered you.
Is that how cows get marbled? I never really thought about the marbling process and now realize I have no idea about any of it.
And yes, also now very very hungry.
