Does human flesh taste like pork?

Question

I was told resently that the reason why pork is baned by Judaism and Islam is because pork tastes like humans.

Answer 1

According to William Buehler Seabrook, a New York Times reporter who got a chunk of a human "meat" from an intern at a hospital in Sorbonne, it tastes just like veal. You can read about it in his book "Jungle Ways" published in 1930.

The slang name for human "meat" is long pig, though, and other anecdotal evidence claims that human and pig taste a lot alike. Of course, a lot of people who reported this didn't have a lot of access to veal since it's usually been a rich man's meat. It's assumed that human and pig taste alike because we have the same diet, for the most part. The idea that pigs are very like humans has been reinforced when doctors began grafting pig skin onto burn victims.

Plain common sense would have pork banned by any number of religions reasons simply because pork is so easy to undercook and it carries a lot of diseases. Prior to the 20th century, you died pretty easily from salmonella. People still get pretty bad cases of it from pork. Pork = dangerous to eat. The equation is easily translated as a religious prohibition against it for everyone's safety. The people who wrote the Talmud and the Qu'ran were not stupid.

Answer 2

Everybody knows that human flesh tastes a lot more like chicken than pork.

Answer 3

The Maori's in New Zealand ate both pig and humans until really quite recently, they simply called human meat "long pig" or "long pork" because it tasted so similar.

Answer 4

I heard it tastes like beef... yet possibly in some areas it tastes like beef. In others, i think of it tastes like rooster... yet in distinctive human beings, it probable tastes like cheese whiz.

Answer 5

I should hope that no one here has ever eaten human flesh before......

Answer 6

"god is not Great" (Christopher Hitchens) has a chapter on this, called "Why Heaven Hates Ham".

Answer 7

It does! slurp! lol.

Answer 8

no chicken.