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If People Ate People…?

Asked by christine215 (3173points) August 15th, 2011

Ok, stay with me here… I’ve had discussions about grass fed beef tasting differently than grain fed beef, and Jamon Iberico is prized because of its’ flavor, which comes from the pigs being fed a diet heavy in acorns just prior to slaughter.

If people ate people, how differently do you think people would taste based on their diets?

Would you eat American Meat based on the average American diet?
Which part of the world do you think would have the tastiest meat?
How do you think YOU would taste?

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Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@christine215 That’s just wacked enough to be intriguing.Vegetarians would be the grass fed beef.

Blackberry's avatar

Whoever is the juciest and meatiest.

YoBob's avatar

Interesting question.

I do not trust the meat of carnivores or omnivores. I would definitely stick to eating vegetarians.

(Drat, looks like @Adirondackwannabe beat me to that quip…)

FutureMemory's avatar

Y’all better keep your meat hooks offa me!!!!!

rebbel's avatar

I taste of cheese.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

No way to know. I mean I’m sure some peopel can tell you. Perhaps you can put up a craiglist ad.

YoBob's avatar

MMmmmmm….. Cheeeeeeessssseeeeee…...............

christine215's avatar

@YoBob and @Adirondackwannabe,
I didn’t even think of that. I was actually thinking how different people of different ethnic backgrounds over the world would taste different from one another based on the vastly different diets that people have.

But yeah, I would probably stick to eating vegetarians too, now that I think about it. I’d avoid most American meat… imagine it’d be fatty and full of bad cholesterol from all that McDonalds and stuff

Cruiser's avatar

Hmmmmm…..I love veal so…..

YoBob's avatar

@christine215 – Except of course for those health nuts from California.

Hey, perhaps that’s a way to solve California’s financial crisis. Well build a big fence around Northern California and sell the inhabitants as livestock!

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@Cruiser I was just thinking I may never eat veal again.

wundayatta's avatar

I’m trying to think. Have I ever eaten the flesh of an animal that has eaten the flesh of another animal? Maybe a fish of some kind. I think I’ll eat a vegetarian, too. They are probably less gamy. Although, if everyone is eating vegetarians, they’ll be gone soon. Then what will we do?

YoBob's avatar

@wundayatta – We could start a selective breeding program. In exchange for free housing, free food, free medical care, abundant recreational facilities, and other like minded vegans to mingle and breed with, when you turn 40 you are quietly herded into a little room and wack.

poisonedantidote's avatar

A Sherpa’s ass would probably make real nice jerkey, walking the Himalayas all day long is bound to build some tough meat, plus the altitude difference could probably make for some interesting chances in texture or taste.

I think of my self more as a leg-arm kind of guy, I would probably stay away from the torso in most cases. Maybe I’d try some flame cooked fat-guy bellyfat, maybe on some bread with rubbed tomato and olive oil, Mediterranean style, but other than that the torso does not sound so appealing.

I suppose, given a choice I would preffer to feed off of hot blonde sweedish girls thighs. But given the choice with my current diet, I rather eat healthy food, but I still find my self chomping on a burger from time to time, so really, I would probably just eat any part of anyone on a busy day. Maybe some Turk nipple microwave meals for the real busy days.

It doesn’t sound too bad, but you know it’s only a matter of time until the greedy food companies get their hands on it and ruin it. We would need to pass laws to keep the industry regulated, I don’t want OD’d drug users popping up in my happy meal.

… Also, it would be good if we just killed and ate virgins, something about that just has a nice ring to it, nice and traditional.

FutureMemory's avatar

I just realized something…I’ve probably been meat-free longer than anyone else on this site (22 years)...don’t ask me what the significance of that is…I just feel very unsafe all of a sudden.

YoBob's avatar

@poisonedantidote – Sounds like a waste of a perfectly good virgin to me… ;)

poisonedantidote's avatar

@FutureMemory You know.. come to think of it, your avatar kind of looks like a fryed egg when I squint.

christine215's avatar

It’d give new meaning to saying “I’m in the mood for some Mexican tonight”
(groan) I couldn’t resist

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Now I’m wondering if I’d still like Italian cusine.

YoBob's avatar

I don’t know about y’all, but Swedish meat balls are right out!

thorninmud's avatar

As a vegetarian, I’d have to go with the Boca Pittsburghers.

poisonedantidote's avatar

Call me crazy if you will, but to me, the idea of cooking people in the style of popular dishes from their home country just sounds right to me. Spanish guy paella, roast Brit with taters and gravy, China man sweet and sour, etc..

For some reason, the idea of eating a Chop Sui French man just sounds wrong.

rebbel's avatar

I just finished a Finnish.

ucme's avatar

Yanks would taste of apple pie, Belgians would taste of chocolate & Russians of caviar.
I’m going to dine on the English, home made fish & chips!

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

I hope I’m not the only one thinking this, but how does this affect oral sex. We’re supposed to be really careful with raw meat.

christine215's avatar

I was just thinking that since I like Indian food so much… and there’s lots of vegetarians in India

But, @poisonedantidote you’re right, the flavors would conflict with say a traditional Southern Italian preparation, so you wouldn’t serve Indian with pecorino romano cheese it’d be a faux pas, I’m sure

christine215's avatar

@ucme.. and waffles, Belgians would taste like chocolate and waffles… and be really good for dessert!

ucme's avatar

@christine215 Quite right, who’d have thought it eh…..something worthwhile coming out of Belgium ;¬} Just kidding, I mean there’s Poirot &..........&........

tinyfaery's avatar

I bet a juicy ass tastes just like bacon. Yum.

QueenOfNowhere's avatar

Which part of the world do you think would have the tastiest meat?
To be honest I must say testicles. I actually do eat them in my spare time.
But to be sincere I would rather eat human than eat fake chinese food that has dog meat instead of chicken meat.

Hibernate's avatar

If people ate people we’d need a different term for cannibalism.

6rant6's avatar

Like Barbwa said…

“People, eating other people are the HUNGRIEST people in the world.”

mazingerz88's avatar

Breast meat. It’s soft and tender.

Sunny2's avatar

@Hibernate ?? Why do we need another word for cannibalism? Because we don’t can people? We could if we became part of our own diet choices. The idea isn’t new. It’s only newly (relatively) not allowed. Since there’s an argument that it’s okay to eat farm raised animals because that’s what they are raised for, raising people for food would absolve the negative arguments against cannibalism. We could feed the herds with any thing that would make the meat taste good. . .garlic, herbs etc.
Oh dear. Excuse me. I’m making myself sick.

cookieman's avatar

“If people ate people”

…I could feed a family of four
for a week.

KhiaKarma's avatar

….well, at least it’d most likely be free range. Although that could change if people began farming other people…. shiver

whatisthat's avatar

if people ate people, i would much rather eat myself instead! wait…

Nimis's avatar

I’d have bob_ for lunch.
And @cprevite for dessert.
[chomp] [chomp]

Or maybe Allie.
And johnpowell if I get real thirsty-likes.
They go nicely together.

Hibernate's avatar

@Sunny2 dunno what to say. But if people ate people on a regular basis the term cannibalism wouldn’t have the same definition. Or am I wrong?

Sunny2's avatar

I think cannibalism means eating animals like themselves. Doesn’t matter.
In my mind, I just heard, Barbra Streisand singing, “People. People eating people. . .It’s the loveliest flavor. . .in the world.
Yuck.

GabrielsLamb's avatar

Indigestion might be an entirely different thing?

Hibernate's avatar

@Sunny2 we can’t call a wolf cannibal if they eat another wolf who was wounded or when they are hungry and they don’t have anything else to eat.

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