What does human meat taste like?

Good to know.

 

Oof, that's horrible. Even domestic pigs will turn on each other and get cannibalistic if one of their penmates gets sick or injured, but wild hogs are pretty much the devil.

 

Well, there's the aforementioned alligator. I don't think there's such a thing as a vegan 'gator.
And as Big Soft Moose has mentioned, there's bear and dog. Those are omnivores, but meat is a big part of their diet.

 

None of those are what I would call 'generally accepted' as food. I've never seen alligator, bear or dog in Schnuck's. Sure, they're eaten in some places by some people, but not 'round these parts. All what I would call exotic foodstuffs. I'd include shark in that too, it's just that I've actually eaten some of that.

 

You probably won't find alligator in the meat section in St. Louis, but it's not uncommon for it to pop up on the menus in Florida or Louisiana, where alligators are plentiful. They're considered a nuisance animal and are fairly easy to hunt. That's where I ate it. You know, I never thought to look if it was available at Publix or one of the other supermarkets there. Perhaps a reader of this forum could enlighten me.

But if you stick to McDonald's or Denny's restaurants,, you won't see it even there. You're right that it it's not in the mainstream of American cuisine.

Fun fact: The McDonalds "filet-o-fish" was invented in an area that was predominantly Catholic, where patrons complained that they didn't have a choice of fish on Friday. This was when Catholics believed that eating meat on a Friday was sinful. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that when Burger King offered the "Whaler" as an alternative to the "Whopper," it was to target that same market.

 

Oh yeah, I guess that's true. I just saw a video the other day with some people who stay in a houseboat on the bayou, and the husband went out into the swamp and shot a—what was it called? They refer to it as a swamp rat I think, or a tree rat or something. It looks like a huge rat, the size of a groundhog. People who aren't from the bayou generally won't eat it, but to those who are it's a delicacy. The only reason I had shark steak is because I was visiting my dad near the Gulf of Mexico and we went out on a fishing trip trying to catch Marlin. I caught two Kingfish and my dad caught a shark. Otherwise I probably would never have tasted it.

 

No, they make terrible dad jokes about it. Ta-dum TISS!

 

Yeah, if I said something like that (when I've said things like that) I get accused of daddery. It started with me like 3 decades ago. I guess I make grandpa jokes now.

 

Check out the famine in the Ukraine, called the Holodmor

And also on reddit, r/askHistorians will able to direct you to the answer.

There are examples of parents almost dead, telling their starving children to eat Mom/Dad after they died so they - the children - would live. I couldn't finish the article(s) but I'm sure someone would describe the taste somewhere.

 

I think Schnuck's is a German word, and this German girl I used to work with thought it was a terrible name too.

Have you ever heard of the grocery store Piggly Wiggly?

By the way, everyone who has participated in this thread is now on a list.

 

But it's where we get our Smucker's jams and jellies! Where else would we get those?

Ah yes, I remember the Piggly Wiggly. It became a Family Video in the 80's, sort of a poor-man's Blockbuster. That's when Shop-n-Save took over as the main grocery chain.

We also had K-Mart and Venture as our main department stores, before the rise of Walmart and Target, and Kreske's was the big drugstore.

 

Yes. IIRC, this happened in the early 1930s, and was directly as a result of Soviet policies. Fuck the Soviets.

And now there are lots of people in Russia who want to go back to a Soviet government ... to which all I can say is, "What are you, stupid? Open a history book sometime and learn what the Soviets did to your parents and grandparents." But of course, learning about Soviet failures is forbidden in Russia, in the same way that learning about (say) the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution is forbidden in China.

And so nobody learns from history, everyone stays stupid, everyone stays miserable, and everyone keeps drinking vodka and smoking cigarettes.

God, I hate how Communists messed up the Marxist ideas. As ideas go, sharing everything with everyone and everyone being equal ... aren't bad ideas. But they ended up as a complete clusterfuck, because Communist parties are invariably greedy, corrupt, and stupid.

 

People forget that Marx and Engels where both college students hanging out in Paris cafes, and games from upper class homes when they wrote the communist manifesto. A book that was full of high minded ideals, but completely ignored human nature.

 

Fair enough. Having said that, I don't think Marx or Engels would've supported the violent nature of the Communist Revolutions (either in Russia or in China).

Apologies, also, for using the F-word -- but I have a good reason: the Soviets imprisoned one of my grandmothers (on my father's side) for the "heinous" crime of listening to a neighbour tell a joke about Stalin. It didn't prove to be so funny: my father, at the time aged only 7, never saw her again until about 6 months before she died.

So both I and my sisters only ever grew up with one grandmother, instead of two.

I'd like to think it was this, among other appalling mistreatments of minorities under the Soviets, that made my parents determined to leave Soviet Russia, so us kids would never have to know what they went through.

 

My guess is that was a nutria. They're in California, too, since some numbskull introduced them because their fur was valuable. They've found a home in the Sacramento River delta.

The most famous nutria was the one that presumably attacked Jimmy Carter:

https://www.straightdope.com/21342110/what-was-the-deal-with-jimmy-carter-and-the-killer-rabbit

 

Yep, that's the one. Apparently quite nutritious too.

 

Marx also didn't have any real life experience from my understanding. He basically proposed a THEORY, without ever having worked in a factory or dealt with the logistics of transporting the manufactured goods from the finished product to the market/store to sell to consumers.

He only looked at the means of production - who owned the factories/processes of manufacture and who made the products, and how they were compensated.

He missed a lot - how did the finished product get to the market? How many different logistics were involved (trucks, trains, ships, planes)? How were they advertised and sold? Who bought product A, product B, product C? How did the consumers use the products? And so on. Assuming each element was a percentage, I think his THEORY only addressed 10% labour and 10% production and then 10% ownership of the production......what about the other 70%???

 

My first degree was in Economics and Politics (before I took science). I remember wring an essay on Marx's theory which proved that his economics did not hold water. This was in about 1980, so I don't remember any of it! But I do remember that there was no sound economic theory in what Marx wrote.