# Soylent McNuggets: you could be eating the evidence... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 9, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416 "2016-03-09T16:15:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/21 "2016-03-10T12:09:13Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > They no longer taste like chicken. How do they taste? Oh, it varies from person to person. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/22 "2016-03-10T12:30:55Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Not really similar. Nobody gets eaten in that. Perhaps you’re thinking of [Pig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_%28short_story%29). Yes, someone does. Read it again. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/23 "2016-03-10T13:08:19Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > OTOH we now have a plot for whatever’s your favorite forensics-detective show. Or a sequel to [_Eating Raoul_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083869/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/24 "2016-03-10T13:58:34Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Not really similar. Nobody gets eaten in that. Perhaps you’re thinking of [Pig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_%28short_story%29). Actually, my apologies – I was referencing the fact that the _evidence_ was eaten (as in the thread title), not the person. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/25 "2016-03-10T14:04:32Z")
Okay, fair enough. I see what you mean. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/26 "2016-03-10T14:42:01Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > To the credit of the writer, it specifically states that the bones were buried. On the other hand, it says that hair was found in the grinder, implying that the murderer de-boned the meat but left the skin, hair, nails, etc. attached when throwing it into the grinder. That’s an impressive amount of work for a mass murderer. At that point one would think it’s be quicker/cleaner/easier to just bury the corpses intact. Killer points for effort. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/27 "2016-03-10T15:33:01Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > How do they taste? Oh, it varies from person to person. For example, clowns taste funny. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/28 "2016-03-10T19:21:17Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > For example, clowns taste funny. I wonder if diabetics would taste sweet? ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/29 "2016-03-10T20:29:12Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > That’s an impressive amount of work for a mass murderer. At that point one would think it’s be quicker/cleaner/easier to just bury the corpses intact. Killer points for effort. No. What you really need is access to a reduction or rendering plant. These operations take every animal byproduct that hasn’t already found a market, and then process it into tallow, meat and bone meal, etc. Some for later inclusion in animal feed, and less acceptable things into fertilizer. Nothing goes to waste or to the land fill. Run it through the Hog (large hammer machine) for large break ups. Cook the protein and oils and separate them out. Dry everything left and run it through a smaller hammer mill for final grind. Nothing recognizable will be left, not even hair. And millions of pounds per year of animal waste from all sources, beef, fish, whatever, are processed like this each year. You would not know which pile in the warehouse to DNA test, even if you had a clue. This is what really happened to Jimmy Hoffa ( I think). The Mob had historic ties to the meat packing industry in the Midwest USA, and he got pureed, de-greased, and powderized. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/30 "2016-03-10T20:35:26Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > For example, clowns taste funny. > [@quiltguy](#): > > I wonder if diabetics would taste sweet? What would old people taste like? Depends. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/31 "2016-03-10T21:39:54Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Set at [Chaco Chicken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Town_(The_X-Files))? Yup, that’s where my mind went, too. “Good people, good food!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/32 "2016-03-10T22:03:23Z")
Option 1, have a trusted skeleton crew (yuk-yuk) who will engage in a multi-step processing of a corpse through a meat rendering plant thereby disguising the evidence as a meat based commodity to be openly sold… Option 2, dump the body in open waters. **Dallas Jones** , not that I know anythings about hiding murder but that conspiracy sounds like a lot of trouble when the alternative is a quick boat trip, no? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/33 "2016-03-10T22:13:27Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > not that I know anythings about hiding murder No, no, of course you don’t. :rolleyes: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/34 "2016-03-11T14:40:38Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > For example, clowns taste funny. > [@quiltguy](#): > > I wonder if diabetics would taste sweet? I don’t even want to think about what some old asshole would taste like. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416/35 "2016-03-11T23:09:47Z")
What about the BBQ at the Whistle Stop Cafe? Best I ever tasted! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-mcnuggets-you-could-be-eating-the-evidence/748416.md?page=1)