# Would You Eat Human Flesh? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 27, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437 "2008-02-27T23:50:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/21 "2008-02-28T04:06:00Z")
[QUOTE=coffeecat] Anyone seen **Mangetout**? [/QUOTE] And **SenorBeef**? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/22 "2008-02-28T04:24:33Z")
I’ve eaten plenty of girls already! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/23 "2008-02-28T04:40:32Z")
I serve man on a regular basis. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/24 "2008-02-28T04:59:45Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] IIRC, wasn’t there a tribe in Papua New Guinea who practiced cannibalism as a funeral rite (eating pieces of someone already dead, at least), and ended up infecting themselves with some serious disease, “kuru”, I think the name of it is. Sort of a human version of Mad Cow. [/QUOTE] That’s one of the premises only done in the USA for an X file episode. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/25 "2008-02-28T05:05:28Z")
Our family has a strict rules against eating family members. The secret source for the USA is Detroit. You don’t seriously think they all moved away and abandoned those buildings do you? ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/26 "2008-02-28T05:14:42Z")
No way! I couldn’t get past the weirdness factor. I’d only consider if I had to eat it (him? her?) to stay alive. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/27 "2008-02-28T05:16:47Z")
Sure why not. [Goes with this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=457682) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/28 "2008-02-28T05:21:25Z")
No, I’m a picky eater. Beef and chicken are it; I’d have problems trying, say, deer, much less human meat. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/29 "2008-02-28T05:24:49Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] IIRC, wasn’t there a tribe in Papua New Guinea who practiced cannibalism as a funeral rite (eating pieces of someone already dead, at least), and ended up infecting themselves with some serious disease, “kuru”, I think the name of it is. Sort of a human version of Mad Cow. [/QUOTE] Yes, the Fore tribe. It’s a prion disease. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/30 "2008-02-28T05:27:05Z")
no ---
**Author:** ![puppygod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@puppygod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puppygod)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/31 "2008-02-28T09:25:38Z")
No, unless it was life saving option. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/32 "2008-02-28T13:32:36Z")
Sure, given the described situation. Again, I’m sure we taste like Pork, since we’re both Omnivores. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/33 "2008-02-28T13:46:01Z")
_Again?_ ---
**Author:** ![I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_No_Saint)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/34 "2008-02-28T13:47:49Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] I serve man on a regular basis. [/QUOTE] Well done, sir. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/35 "2008-02-28T13:50:18Z")
[QUOTE=coffeecat] Anyone seen **Mangetout**? [/QUOTE] I was just selecting a bottle of wine. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/36 "2008-02-28T14:39:12Z")
Eh, maybe. Just to see what it was like. (Who knows? If it’s _legal_, and I know Sentinels aren’t just grabbing slow children off the street to get it, I might even get a taste for the stuff.) Otherwise…well, aside from the “stranded in the Andes, and they were already dead to begin with”-type situation, I might do it if it was someone I _really_ hated, and I wanted to make a statement/vent my beastial anger/desecrate their body/try to take their “power” by eating something important. So, if I ran across Osama or Clone-Hitler or someone like that, I might BBQ their heart and eat it with fries. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/37 "2008-02-28T14:46:49Z")
I would try it. Do we get to pick the part? I’ pretty sure I’d like a little tenderloin. We could probably make a human ham out of the thigh area that would be ok. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/38 "2008-02-28T15:01:41Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I was just selecting a bottle of wine. [/QUOTE] I hope it’s a nice chianti. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/39 "2008-02-28T15:24:29Z")
or a big Amarone. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437/40 "2008-02-28T15:45:25Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Only if I were sure to starve otherwise. [/QUOTE] What he said. I can see no other reason to do so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-human-flesh/439437.md?page=3)