food seance

From: Heliflopter

"A collagen matrix is impregnated with cultured muscle cells, thousands of them, all derived from a single muscle cell extracted from an animal. [...] It works with fish, too -- artificial fillets have been grown from gold fish cells. Apparently it’s hideous wet muck that tastes like the first time you ate mushy peas out of a dead tramp’s arse. But still, it’s early days.
" [...] In the Polynesian islands, human meat has always been known as 'long pig,' because people taste like pork. The incredibly efficient air filters in hospitals’ burn-wards are there to remove the overpowering smell of barbecued pork. I like to think that hospitals are so assiduous about it because human meat smells so good, and that without the filters the staff and visitors would go mad with food-lust and start devouring the burned patients. What if people are the tastiest meat of all?" — Warren Ellis, Wired Magazine
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"For a brief time in Europe, an unusual form of cannibalism occurred when thousands of Egyptian mummies preserved in bitumen were ground up and sold as medicine. The practice developed into a wide-scale business which flourished until the late 16th century. This 'fad' ended because the mummies were revealed actually to be recently killed slaves. Two centuries ago, mummies were still believed to have medicinal properties against bleeding, and were sold as pharmaceuticals in powdered form." — Wikipedia
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