This Just In: People Don't Taste Like Chicken

Perks · May 25, 2014

You know, I feel both woozy and grateful to have the age-old question answered.

Alexander Selvik Wengshoel, the 25-year-old artist, was born with a deformed hip and spent years in a wheelchair while going through a series of failed operations. He was finally given his metal hip replacement when he was 21. His hip bone, which he was allowed to keep, was displayed alongside film of the operation as part of his graduation show from the Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art.

After convincing doctors to let him keep the bone removed during his hip replacement operation, a Norwegian conceptual artist boiled it on "a whim" and then ate the flesh with potato gratin and a glass of wine. He claims the meat tasted like "wild sheep."

http://gawker.com/norwegian-artist-...m_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Zoombie · May 25, 2014

...huh.

Good. I like chicken.

Perks · May 25, 2014

What's funny is that when you read the article, the first reaction is "holy hell!" but once you try to pin down why there's anything wrong with it, I for one can't come up with a good reason.

regdog · May 25, 2014

kuwisdelu · May 25, 2014

Perks said:
What's funny is that when you read the article, the first reaction is "holy hell!" but once you try to pin down why there's anything wrong with it, I for one can't come up with a good reason.

He didn't brown it before boiling it.

thothguard51 · May 25, 2014

Meat is meat...

Perks · May 25, 2014

kuwisdelu said:
He didn't brown it before boiling it.

Agreed. He did it wrong. I suppose we should get him a cookbook for Christmas.

Xelebes · May 25, 2014

Cannibal Cooking Club's "Bloody Fingers", perhaps?

Pyekett · May 25, 2014

To Serve Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIufLRpJYnI

regdog · May 25, 2014

Soylent Green is people

Pyekett · May 25, 2014

For a species that is generally disgusted by cannibalism, it sure does get a lot of representation in our entertainment media. That's probably why, actually.

DoodleSnickers · May 25, 2014

But more importantly, does chicken taste like people?

Ambrosia · May 25, 2014

DoodleSnickers said:
But more importantly, does chicken taste like people?

Stands to reason, no. Wild sheep tastes like people.

William Haskins · May 25, 2014

fucking hipsters.

jerrimander · May 25, 2014

They were right. AW *is* a veritable font of information.

donroc · May 25, 2014

Curried, Milanese, sweet and sour, Szechuan, Provencal, mole all might have added the right seasoning to make it delicious.

Jorshington · May 25, 2014

Damn.

Guess I have to pay off my bets.

Vince524 · May 25, 2014

I'm gonna repeat the same comments I put on Perk's FB post on this.

I would like to think I'd taste like pork, or if smoked, bacon.

And it's hip to be a square meal.

I will also add that I'm now hungry.

RedRajah · May 25, 2014

kuwisdelu said:
He didn't brown it before boiling it.

Seriously, if I'm eating a piece of myself, I want a good sear first.

smalls · May 25, 2014

According to Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who was arrested for murder and cannibalism but got off on a technicality, human meat is odorless and "the tastiest of all meats." He did an interview with Vice in 2009. If you do go read that interview, it's pretty gruesome - you've been warned. In another interview he described the meat as soft and odorless, like raw tuna.

Putputt · May 25, 2014

Weird, I thought that since our DNA is so close to pigs' DNA, we'd taste more like pork...

Roxxsmom · May 25, 2014

Ew, and yes. I'd always heard humans taste more like pork. Though the book Alive (which I sneaked behind my math book in fifth grade) said something about it being like Veal.

frimble3 · May 25, 2014

Okay, question for any hunters here: what does 'wild sheep' taste like? More useful than comparisons to other meat, does it taste like anything you'd want to taste again? Because I'm thinking that mutton is not exactly flying off the shelves.

Xelebes · May 25, 2014

Mutton has some similar qualities to pork in terms of flavour. Much more grain to them than pork, hence the comparison.

shakeysix · May 25, 2014

Hold the bus! Derail time--How the hell does someone get off on a technicality for murder and cannibalism?????? --s6

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