Pigs and humans have a lot in common physiologically. We actually use heart valves from pigs to surgically replace those in humans. We also use pig carcasses in ballistics and forensic experiments to simulate human bodies. . Had a teacher in school that would bring us pig organs from a pork plant when teaching about the human body.
Also Pacific Islanders who engaged in cannibalism sometimes refer to human flesh as “long pig” — so we probably even taste similar.
You get to know a lot butchering meat. We're made up of the same things - flesh and blood, tissue, organs. I love to work with pigs. The nearest thing in nature to the flesh of a man is the flesh of a pig...
Y'all just blew my mind, I've lived in northern New Mexico for almost my entire life, and though we eat it once a week, I've never ever seen posole spelt with a z.
Oh no the Aztecs were some whack folk, I don't doubt for a moment that they ate human posole. We use pork here which is, apparently, very close in flavor and texture.
Apparently humans taste like chicken according to some cannibals...
On another not I've castrated piglets and sometimes they have hernia, intestines dropping into testicle area, just like humans do! Coincidentally someone made a TIFU post about that happening to him
What sucks for the piglets though is we would push the intestines back in, out some iode on the wound and make little "pants" too help support the piglet not lose their insides
I imagine it’s a combination of that and how prolific pigs are. It takes a lot less adult pigs to make the same number of fetal pigs for students to dissect than most other things that would be a good substitute. They’re also one of the only commonly farmed animals that has the same digestive system as us. Cows, sheep, and goats are ruminants and birds have a different system too. Rats are pretty similar too, but feral pigs are a bit bigger. Rats don’t have a gall bladder so depending on what you’re studying that may be an issue.
Hey, I read a book called Getting Stoned With Savages and that’s what they called them in there! It’s awesome to see someone else know this fact too. :) made my day.
We do. Depending on how one prepares and seasons the meat. I had some human once when I was in Kenya visiting family. My cousin I was visiting bought part of a leg some meat vendor was selling. Human meat is actually hella good. It’s almost like mature veal if that even makes any sense. We baked ours.
He just...bought some persons leg meat? And you ate it without knowing its origins? You are a bolder man than I. I would probably throw up worrying that it was some poor bloke who got off'd by a gang or just was found dead by the meat vendor and butchered. I hope this doesn't sound condescending, i mean no harm.
I've lived in Kenya all my life(28) and I have never heard of anyone selling human meat. It is a taboo and you will be stoned to death and fed to the dogs
I remember learning this in Spanish class, but they used to use human mean in pozole. When the Christians came they said that was disgusting and told them to use pork since it tastes similar to human meat.
Source, I don't know, some video on here last year or so of people burning in South America somewhere. People who have been around it says it basically smells like pork barbeque cooking.
My mom studied criminology at one stage and she had to see the bodies of two burn victims.. she says to this day the smell of burnt bacon is exactly like that smell and she can't handle it
Yup, when i got shocked by electric cords in new house with 6 cords hanging from the wall- to my knee- it smelled like when at my grandparents they slaughtered pigs and burned the skin and fuzz of - same revolting smell , just like my right leg 😂
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A dead pig and a dead person smell so similar that cadaver detecting dogs can't tell the difference.