Cannibals Say Human Flesh Tastes Like Pickled Pork

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In the past a high demand for human flesh as food could only be supported by constant warfare. Prisoners of war almost always ended up in the cooking pots of "savage" warriors. A distinction, however, must be maintained between cannibalism in magical-religious ritual and its practice in ordinary table life, though in reality both practices conveniently co-exist in primitive cultures. Why is the cannibalistic taste almost universal in primitive human societies?
 
That's a very stirring visualization.
 
That's actually a very interesting question. I once read about a certain Tribe in which the individuals would eat the meat of their deceased, because they believed it was a way of helping that person move into the other world.
In that case I think the cannibalism is... alright some how because it really doesn't harm anyone. Yes, it may be hard for us to understand, but they are not really savage-like in the sense that they hunt one another and resort to a cruel treatment of another... It was simply a ritual that they thought was beneficial for the other.

To each their own I guess.
 
I suppose that cannibalism isn't truly the savage ritual that most people view it as. Cannibals (in my understanding) do not raise humans like herds of cattle in order to later butcher them and eat them. It almost always has some type of symbolism after a war between tribes. I think the biggest reason that most people in the civilized world do not understand it is because we think of them as killing and eating their neighbor, rather than their beliefs that they may be taking someone's strength into themselves or helping their loved one move on. I cannot say that I understand it and would be able to do it myself, but I guess it could be somewhere on par with some people eating rabbit meat while others would only think of their pet bunny. Quite a jump I know, but still has the emotional attachment that catches most of us.
 
I think primitive human societies, being unexposed to modern technologies and medical advances, have their own set of beliefs that encourage cannibalism. And as was said by Shell, these cannibalistic tribe don't rear humans like we do cattle to eat them. It's usually after a war or death of a loved one.

It's in their belief that if they eat the flesh of their enemies, they would also ingest the strength and knowledge of the fallen enemy. So this cannibalistic rituals are more or less done to strengthen themselves so that they will be able to fight their enemies.
 
I don't believe that humans should harm one another if it can be avoided but the act of cannibalism itself doesn't bother me. I make no distinction between a dead human and a dead animal. If I were in a situation like my plane crashed in the mountains and we couldn't get out because of a blizzard, I would be very comfortable in eating the bodies of those who died in the crash if it meant my survival.
 
I just do not find the thought of eating another member of my race very appetizing.

If I had no choice, and the world was ending, and the only thing available thing was human flesh... then maybe. But I honestly, cannot even stand pickled pork in the first place!

What am to do...
 
I've never tried pickled pork. But anyway, even if the world were ending and I was left to the decision if eating my own kind or dying, I think I would choose the latter. I certainly wouldn't survive long if I ate a human; I would probably be traumatized or something. Shudder.
 
I hadn't heard it tasted like pickled pork, though I'd read somewhere that in the South Pacific the term used for the meat translated as "long pig." I had wondered at one time if the religious restriction toward eating pork in Judaism and Islam had to do with pagan sacrifices and cannibalism but my understanding is that archeological evidence of ancient human remains doesn't support that idea. It's definitely not something I would want to do. Now bacon on the other hand...
 
Taste like pickled pork? I doubt it. How it tastes like should depend on how it's cooked. If it's grilled with peanut oil, then it's likely to taste like barbequed hot dogs, depending on which part of the anatomy you are cooking. If it's boiled with potatoes and big onions for a couple of hours, it should taste like a beef stew, more or less.
 
I saw a documentary few years ago about the head hunters in Solomon Island where every time they met few of people from other tribes, there will be a fight for their lives and that they get to eat the dead by grilling the head. Are human flesh really meant for eating?
 
No, I don't think so. If human flesh were really meant for eating, by now, we would already have big farms producing human beings just for eating. The general idea is that animals do not eat their own kind.
 
This is a fascinating thread that's also turning my stomach as I type this. It's interesting to hear of it as a cultural significance and purpose in dealing with death and the afterlife. Have any of you seen the film "Cannibal" from 2005? It was based on a true story of a guy who posted an ad online for someone he wanted to meet, and eat. People responded, and he eventually found his *supper*. It was a god awful film, and I had to shut it off several times and pick it up a day later to finish watching - became more of an endurance test. I never thought of it having spiritual meaning to societies though, that's interesting - but on a selfish fetish level, it's pretty deranged imo.
 
Looks like cannibalism hasn't really gone out of vogue then. A while ago, I read about the Japanese man who advertised a very special dinner party, where the main course was his own sex organ which he cut off and cooked for his guests.
 
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