from our good friends at VICE magazine: http://www.viceland.com/int/v13n3/htdocs/baby.php?country=us (click link for pics!) Eating a human placenta is harder than you might imagine. First off, they are difficult to trap. Growing up in the hippie mecca of Austin, Texas, one heard about earth-mother types planting their infants’ placentas under trees and even grinding them up into smoothies. It seemed like no big deal. So when my buddy knocked up his wife, we began plotting a BBQ accordingly. We asked the midwife to smuggle out the goods for us, but she was a bit worried. We promised her some weed and she agreed to try. Hippies! She wrapped the placenta up in a biohazard bag, met me outside the hospital, nervously handed it over, then shooed me off. I tossed it into a small, iced-up 7-Eleven Styrofoam cooler, got on my bicycle, and rode off, baby cocoon on board. I felt like Elliott, pedaling away with E.T. on his handlebars. The placenta preparation was one of the most ungodly rituals in which I have ever engaged. When you kill animals, it’s important to wash the blood out of them before cooking. (When cows are taken to the slaughterhouse, one of the first things they do is chop off their feet so the beating heart will pump out all the blood.) Same idea with stringing up a goat or sheep before slitting its throat—something cavemen figured out, I guess. Since a placenta is essentially a sack of blood vessels, the cleaning process takes a long time. A really long time. It was about the size of a full brisket, say four pounds, but with the addition of a one-meter-long white umbilical cord. The menu was twofold: I would make a stew, like a Mexican carne guisada, in an attempt to soften up the texture for tacos, and the rest would be shish-kebabed. It took a while to cook, as this is not the type of thing one wants to eat medium rare. By the time we were ready to give it a go, the taco concoction had been going for about an hour and a half, and I was quite hungry and more than a little drunk. But I was still supersqueamish. When I emerged from the kitchen with a tray of placenta tacos, the guys seemed particularly unnerved. A surprising number of the chicks were greedily indulging as the offerings were passed around. Reticently, I forced myself to try. The tacos were more challenging because they were gooier, while the kebabs had a bit of crunch from the fire. The human meat had a spongy texture to it, sort of like brains or kidneys. I have never eaten brains or kidneys, but I imagine they would feel similar in the mouth. Somehow, I ate everything handed me, and in the end sort of wished dinner had been twins. To the list of achievements on my résumé, I proudly added Cannibalism. TRACE CRUTCHFIELD
hungry? mmmmm... finger-lickin' good! (incidentally, trace told me it was one of the worst things he's ever experienced -- preparation-wise. "tender, but chewy...")
Katie Holmes is a disgrace. She brainwashed herself into loving Tom Cruise from the time she discovered him when she was a child. There is no way in hell she would have ever gotten anywhere near Tom Cruise if she wasn't a celebrity. Was there any doubt that, if she could latch onto him given the opportunity, she would? There is no way she would have said no to him on anything unless he badly misplayed his hand initially. She was his after she saw him in his first film. You think Tom would have taken her if she was average looking? Absolutely not! As one of Tom's on-screen loves once said, "you had me at hello!". That's Katie for you. If Tom went down to Jonestown with the red cyanide-laced kool-aid, then Katie would be right there with him. She's given false hope to all people of the world that you can grow up with posters of these stars on your wall and, one day, all those fantasies you had about you and the star can come true. It's perversion at its finest. Her actions have left open hope to the disturbed that their fantasies can become reality if they act on them. Look out, Scarlett Johannson, ready or not...here I come!
I'm sure it he puts the placenta on the grill, it won't be so bad...Admit, some of yall would love to eat Katie Holmes placenta...
Why is eating placenta considered "ok", and I use that term loosely, but cannabalism isn't? Wouldn't eating placenta be considered cannabalism?
Flippin' weirdo thats all I have to say. The guy is an absolute nut, and scientology is a bonafide fraternity for the extremely wealthy.
Yeah, she's laughing that drug-filled night with Tom and his high-level Scientology friend all the way to the bank.
