Post-Schna-ulations

Wedding cuisine

Police: Wedding guests eat victim

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Four members of a family have been arrested and charged with murder for allegedly killing and eating a relative during a wedding reception -- and serving his flesh to unwitting party guests, police have said.

Yum, yum.
This was one of the most curious parts to me:

"It was perhaps due to their drunkenness. They probably didn't know what they were eating," he said.

Drunk or not, if someone was serving meat at a reception, I don't think ANYONE would stop and think, 'oh my god, this tastes like person!'. I've heard many things about people-meat, ranging from it being quite delicious to it being tough and not very good (this was given as a reason as to why tigers don't eat people unless they're starving). Who knows what to believe?
Oddly enough, the consumption of the human body didn't use to be quite so strange. In fact, consuming people-parts (that had undergone various modes of preparation) was once thought to heal all kinds of things, from seizures to night terrors.

(article courtesy of Dennis; info about eating people-parts courtesy of my reading of the book Stiff by Mary Roach)

posted by Schna @ 12:11 PM