Would you ever eat (or have you ever eaten) human placenta?

If you don’t want to eat it, you can make art prints with your placenta.

FTR, I find doing pretty much anything with it completely disgusting. It’s medical waste! Remove it!

I don’t like the idea of eating organ meat of any kind, so count me out.

In how many days in your life have you encountered discussions about placentophagy from two completely unrelated sources?

I can now claim one (1). Weird.

Being one to try about anything creative or artsy, Meyer6 made me throw up a little. In my mouth.

//children and source of freak me out horribly.

You know, if I ever have a kid. . .I figured I could go without drugs for the pain. I don’t mind it. But fucking hell, if I do, and that’s gonna come out of me. . .well, I’ll stick with the wisdom of Fry’s mom: “More morphine, please!”

I’ll try anything once, I suppose. More often if I like it.
It’s not something I’d go out of my way to try, but if it’s on the menu… 'eh, lets have a go.

Sure, but none of this namby-pamby unrecognizable preparation buisiness. Crouch naked in the mud gnawing at it and growl at anyone who tries to take it away, totally old school.

What do you mean, kanicbird? I know it’s for sustaining the foetus while it’s still cooking in my innards, but once I shoot it out my growler, it’s for sustaining me. Naked and growling, yeah? :slight_smile:

Yeah, placenta exists in the charming intersection of medical waste, organ meats, and cannibalism.

None of which I like individually, and placenta is all three.

Incidentally, I’ve discussed this sort of thing at length with many horrified observers, and I also wouldn’t be adverse to theoretically having a little snack on any of my amputated limbs, if circumstances allowed.

Try everything once except line-dancing and incest.

It is a fetal organ, not a adult organ, genetically it is of the baby, not the mother. It serves as the part on the baby’s side that matched to the uterus to allow the exchange of air and nutrition.

So why does that mean I can’t eat it?

I refer you again to “naked and growling”.

Luckily, they didn’t seem to have kept mine, so I’m off the hook. :smiley:

You can not eat yours unless it was preserved, as it would no longer exist, you are able to eat another’s, such as your baby’s, but that would not be yours.

Oh, okay.

Thanks for clearing that up for me, kanicbird.

Bumped.

I’d try a bite, just to say I had, but I really doubt I’d wanna eat the whole thing.

Here’s an essay about it (never heard of it being made into pills, let alone as a remedy for postpartum depression): Eating the Placenta: Safety, Benefits & Risks

I’m reluctant to try new foods; an overly picky appetite. Nor am I into organ meats. So nope, no interest.

And surely zombie placenta has got to be pretty disgusting. :smiley:

zombie or no

if you ate the whole thing there is Alka Seltzer.

I view as something like chitterlings - not something I’d ever seek out, would probably not pick off a buffet table, but if in one of those situations were you have to be polite, a gun was held to my head, or I was literally starving yeah, I’d try it. Maybe.

*sauce.