you Are What You Eat

[jezzilee]

And no, I am not trying to call you all a bunch of Dicks and pussies. Seriously. Who actually seasons that shit up and chews and swallows?

The Canadian and I were having an interesting conversation last night. A bit on the grim side but interesting nonethless.

Let's say you are stranded in a remote destination with no way to get out but to wait and see if you are found by search and rescue. All food sources are now defunct and the first person in your group succumbs to the lack of food and elements. How many days of desperation would it take before you turn to the only available food source? Your dead friend.

I truly do not think it is an answerable question. Unless I was in the situation, really how would I know if I would or could do it. I don't think I could do it, but death is not looming above me.

Could you do it? How many days would it take to make you turn to cannibalism?

 

[PeteHulbert37]

There's food nearly everywhere. You just have to have the ingenuity to get it.

 

[jezzilee]

There's food nearly everywhere. You just have to have the ingenuity to get it.

Think plane crash in the snow covered mountains or a stranded research party in antartica.

 

[Saint Peter]

Don't wait too long to make your decision. If the answer is yes, fillet that badboy up and eat it like a one dollar Vegas buffet.

If no, plant it in the ground. Nothing stinks worse than rotting flesh.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

What I think I would do, and what I would do were I actually in that situation are two drastically different things. Desperate times call for desperate measures. People can (and have) done things they never dreamed they would do.

I believe the corpse would be too far gone before I had the nerve to attempt it, but right now I'm not starving to death.

 

[Saint Peter]

What part(s) do you eat first?

 

[Saint Peter]

"He did not fuck up the cooking, he cooked up the fucking."

 

[Tryharder62]

Well it makes me want to puke thinking about eating my friend. Don't know, like you said, what I would do until I was that desperate. Thanking God for the bacon, egg, cheese McGriddle. The good thing is my best friend, if the situation was reversed, could live a long, long, long, time.

 

[BotanyBoy]

More human than human.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSDvUBqakLROaVU-euBpbEOCqJE5DgZ2gejVzspJmygrwPp-J5t





OP: I wouldn't, I'd leave as soon as I saw this situation developing.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[InternationalFunboy]

What part(s) do you eat first?

I'd eat the buttcheek, me. Good old buddacheega sammich. And yeah I'm with Elle, I'd put it on front street. If I die first, Bon Appetit! I keep my feet very well mind you if anyone wants to make a stew.

 

[jezzilee]

What about the organs?

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[thør]

Don't wait too long to make your decision. If the answer is yes, fillet that badboy up and eat it like a one dollar Vegas buffet.

If no, plant it in the ground. Nothing stinks worse than rotting flesh.

And, the maggots go "pop" in your mouth.

 

[thør]

Time for a screening of "Alive". I recommend it in high def.

 

[Hard_Rom]

You can go for 30 days without food. Water is more important. Cannibalism only becomes an option in freezing weather conditions. Else the corpse would be rotten in a few days.

Now in an urban starvation scenario. People succumb to starvation everyday. Corpses, fresh ones, are every where.

But these are starved bodies. Doubtful much fat on them. Muscle tissue eaten away. Not much pickings. Maybe the offal. That's what the vultures and hyena's go for. Most predators eat the internal organs first. Heart and kidneys maybe. Human liver is toxic to us. A sliver of quad or glute muscle.

I read that every animal seems to have big enough brain to be used in tanning the skin. Big brained humans should have more than enough.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Hard_Rom]

Even skinny bodies would make a stock for broth.

Good idea. Boil the marrow out of the bones.

With low fat content may be best to cook by boiling. Would dry out fast under any sort of heat.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[SweetValini]

True, we are what we eat.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Yeah. I have given this idea plenty of thought.

I also really liked Stranger in a strange land when I was a kid. I think it probably over influenced my ideals

I grok that.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

As I understand it, the average human could survive without water for three days. Going without food, you could live for about three weeks.

I don't know what my fortitude would be in that situation. The longest I've gone without food was about 3 1/2 days. The circumstance was that I had the worst flu of my life. Afterwards though, my parents dropped off 5 Italian sausage sandwiches with green peppers & giardiniera from Festa Italia. I ravenously devoured them like a zombie eating brains.

Using that as a metric, I guess that I'd submit to insane hunger after 10-12 days. And that's if there was literally nothing else to eat like grass or bugs for example.

The other hypothetical problem that you would have would be environmental. If you were in a cold environment (like those soccer players in the Andes), then the carcass would be preserved for much longer than if you were in a tropical environment. Meat would start putrefying and become inedible in a day or less.

 

[Comshaw]

What I think I would do, and what I would do were I actually in that situation are two drastically different things. Desperate times call for desperate measures. People can (and have) done things they never dreamed they would do.

I believe the corpse would be too far gone before I had the nerve to attempt it, but right now I'm not starving to death.

I agree. I've never been close to that situation and have no idea what I'd do. I think perhaps my decision would be much like this group:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive_(1993_film)

When you get hungry enough and know there is only one food source, I think I probably would.


Comshaw

 

[islandman]

At this moment, I am a mango.

 

[warrior queen]

Many years ago, driving through a part of middle Africa, I had the misfortune of seeing a truck on fire by the side of the road in which several people were burned.
My overwhelming memory of that situation is that I remember being surprised that burning humans smell like charred pork.
I was unable to eat pork in any form for over 20 years, although I can tolerate some these days.

Given that cooked human is like pork, I could possibly eat it if I were absolutely starving. Maybe.