Dead, I’ll eat’em
Alive, I don’t think so
But the really important question is…which fork do you use?
all I can say is: “pass the ketchup, these ‘finger steaks’ are alittle dry.”
To answer handy’s question, it tastes like ass!
I would eat someone in a minute. I wouldn’t feel bad about it, either. The person is who I cared about, not the body. Once the body is dead, the person is gone, and it’s all just meat.
I’d cook it well, though. With some garlic, a little Mrs. Dash (to go with the Mr. Smith I’m cooking… haha), some A-1, and I’m golden.
Here’s a more potent question: If you were stranded, with your kids, and no rescue was possible for at least a month, would you build a fire, supply a knife, then kill yourselves so your kids could eat you and survive?
–Tim
Always work from the outside in.
Didn’t you learn that from the dinner scene in Titanic? *sheeeeeesh * 
Seriously,
I’d eat them either way, dead or alive. However, I woudl not eat a living family member.
No conscience problems…I wanted to live, I needed to live, I lived. Ta-da.
Bri
A family member? No problem. My kid? She hasn’t mastered solids yet (sqeaked by that one;) )
Raw? Hey, protein is protein. No matter how “evolved” we like to think of ourselves, we’re still animals- survival is our strongest instinct.
most of us would eat the end out of a minstrating skunk if we got hungry enough.
Self preservation may be the strongest, and some say the ONLY, instinct we have, but I don’t think I would be able to do it. I’d be less afraid of dying, than having to live with the knowledge of what I had done to enable me to have ‘survived’. Of course, you’re right, aha, one can’t know for certain what you’d do in the most primitive of situations.
The Donner group partied in the Sierras, not the Rockies…
and at Donner Lake, along Highway 80 in California, there’s a picnic area, which I always thought was a little gruesome.
Hey! Answer my damn question or I’ll smack y’all. Each and every one of ya.
–Tim
Hell ya, I would resort to cannibalism - as long as the person was already dead. No murder, but after death, they’re basically meat. Hell, Ive eaten dog in the back allies of Miami, and that was pretty damn tasty.
Joseph
If we’re talking crashed aircraft, I’d probably start on the dead people before the airline food ran out.
Sure, why the hell not?
I think I’d eat the butt first.
Sinking my teeth into a nice jucy butt.
Mmmmm.
I wonder if you have to hang the people before eating them.
I wonder if you can eat raw human.
Hmmm.
The best meat is always in the rump!
Does the entree need to be dead…cuz I find that they put up too much of a fight when they’re alive…it toughens up the meat too.
My 1st part would be the “bacon” off the ribs.
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Good question. I don’t think I would actively kill myself because I would be of more use to the kids by staying alive. However, when it reached the point that if they didn’t have food they were going to go, I’d think about it. But then again, the trauma for a child going through that might not be worth living through.
In answer to the original question. You bet. I’d eat someone, I wouldn’t feel bad about it, and I’d probably start with the rear too. Without a knife, the whole process would be really difficult. It would be very gruesome to work on the tearing process. Sort of like skinning a rabbit by flinging it around, only this is a person with whom you’ve chatted with. That would make it much more difficult, but I’d still do it.
gkj
I do like this question, but I always feel lonely after answering it. You will understand why in a moment.
As for the plane crash scenario, I’d definitely eat anyone already dead. As for killing my own meal, I would hope that I would be brave enough to analyze my own chances of survival after making the kill before deciding whether or not to carry out the act.
I am not at all repulsed by the thought of cannibalism. I believe that the consumption of a loved ones body is honorable and a beautiful way of disposing of dead comrades. The reason for this is that I disagree with Homer who said:
To my way of thinking, the body and the mind effect each other equally. The chemical make up of a human body is influenced in a major way by the effect of the way in which that human lived his life and vice versa. The human body, IMO, is representative of the whole person. Therefore, consuming their flesh is taking their essence into your body, changing your chemistry, altering your own body and mind thus allowing a tiny element of that person to live within you.
Homer and I arrive at the same conclusion, that we would “eat someone in a minute”, after a very different logical process. I don’t think that there are terribly many people who share my outlook on this topic other than a few isolated tribes in unpronounceable little countries. This is what makes me feel slightly lonely.
I have never consumed the flesh of another human nor do I expect to. I am not close to any one who might want me to do so.
A classic! I wouldn’t go that far…I would eat somebody else though…supposedly, we taste a little like pork. Anybody remenber the Far Side cartoon with the chickens (or was it cows?) wondering what they taste like? Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure it was cows, and they were drawing straws to see who got barbecued. Or something like that.