A Matter of Taste
Though I meant the whole ”Three Bad Habits …” entry jokingly, tongue planted firmly in cheek, Jim took up the gauntlet and is answering all five questions on his site. I was surprised by the first response, partly because of its seriousness, but mostly for this statement, which almost exactly mirrors my own feelings:
I thought long and hard on it, and found it odd that I have a stronger aversion to killing someone than eating him. Killing is hard; eating is easier.
That sentiment has upped my respect for Jim about 30 notches.
And I liked the guy pretty well before I read it (though in researching cannibalism, I understood rump meat was the choicest cut).
A Matter of Taste has 2 responses
Jim says:
16 May 2008 at 4:17 pm
I remember an interview I saw many, many years ago with someone who has eaten human flesh -it may have been a survivor of the plane the crashed in the Andes in the 1970s. The survivor was asked about the taste of human flesh, he said that he found the knuckles to be the most flavorful.
I based my meal on that kernel of remembrance … though I knew I’d have to have some real meat in the stew. So I cut at the elbow and left some forearm meat in there.
Harry Haller says:
16 May 2008 at 4:30 pm
You know if someone comes here from a random Google search, we’re going to have a lot of explaining to do.
