Paging Eat The Placenta to thread #4503717.

FTA: Sara did not understand that when Cassandra's looks fade in her 50s, there's no way I'm putting up with this crap.

HA!
Surprisingly, that was an excellent article.

If that were merely the extent of it. . .

.

Well, that was an interesting read. It was other things too, but interesting was one of them.

Err.... her own placenta?

Yeah, I thought I had reached the limit of grossness out there, but this ranks in the top 5. Thanks Time.

/obligatory

ah ha ha
from wiki
The word placenta comes from the Latin for cake,

So many great quotes in what I expected to be a lame article;

"When I asked Sara if her parents were embarrassed by what she does, she told me that her father sells bull semen."

"If I ever kill a man in my own home, I am totally calling the placenta lady."

"Sara said Cassandra had a particularly robust placenta..."

FTFA: "It's what your liver would look like if it got into an accident on the autobahn with one of those aliens from Mars Attacks! and their bloody carcasses threw jellyfish at each other. "

Illiteration abounds.
/There's always room for J-E-L-L-O

If this becomes popular with today's young women, I'm blaming that last Twilight book (so ashamed to know this).

I'll eat almost anything. Except for Liver, or other organ meats like "sweet breads" or gizzards. Oh and add placenta to that list.

But I loves me some Liverwurst. Especially Liverwurst fried in bacon grease.

Damn, now I'm hungry

FTA "For those of you who have never seen one, the placenta is to the baby what Stephen Baldwin is to Alec Baldwin."

Our midwife insisted on showing it to my wife. She said we needed to bury it at the base of a tree. My wife told me to dump it in the medical waste bin. I did.

Anyone up for placenta calzones?


/OM NOM NOM

WTF?

/yeah, honey, let's run around naked like animals, eat raw meat, eat our own poop, eat placentas, and do barbaric crap because animals do it too. In fact, f*** the house & the mortgage... let's just live in the trees like our monkey uncles.

Karmacidal: FTA: Sara did not understand that when Cassandra's looks fade in her 50s, there's no way I'm putting up with this crap.

HA!
Surprisingly, that was an excellent article.

Beat me to it. Best in the whole article.

In which was part of my son's umbilical cord, fashioned into a heart.

Oh, this kid is going to grow up normal.

I saw the placenta from both of my children. It's like my wife squirted out a veiny liver from her hoo-hah. Things like that should not come out of a bodily orifice.

Me, I was born at home in rural Spain. Supposedly, my placenta was buried out in the yard so that the cats wouldn't get to it.

My brother's ex-wife kept the placenta for eating. They kept it in the freezer too long however, because no one in their right mind really wants to eat placenta.

So they buried it in the backyard and planted a tree on that spot after it started to get awkward. i.e. "So, brother, I see there's a placenta in your freezer."

Tom cruise eats em all the time....

Wouldn't eating the placenta technically count as cannibalism? 'Cuz if she gets to do that, the guy should totally get a free pass for necrophilia. Just sayin'.

Hell, naw. I would eat my ho's pussy anytime. Not her placenta.

Eeek!

No Gorgor yet?

I wasn't even OFFERED mine.

Do you suppose my obstetricians kept them for their own tables?

Chariset: Err.... her own placenta?

Well, if she wants to eat someone ELSE'S placenta, you should run screaming into the night and never return. Because it won't stop at placentas.

Cats do make cleaning up easy when they give birth. I was disgusted at first when my cat had five kittens and those gross placentas came out. Then I was happy she gobbled them up since it meant I didn't have to touch them.

ummmm, BBQ Placenta and cold Beer. its what's for dinner.

Tom Cruise's Placenta Eating Tips (new window)

FTA: As she sliced the cooked organ and put it on parchment paper in a dehydrator, she told me that some people drink the placenta raw as a smoothie.

I'm not a particularly squeamish person, but I almost ralphed when I read that.


Hence the Name...: FTFA: "It's what your liver would look like if it got into an accident on the autobahn with one of those aliens from Mars Attacks! and their bloody carcasses threw jellyfish at each other. "

Illiteration abounds.
/There's always room for J-E-L-L-O

That's not illiteration. It's not alliteration, either. It's not even assonance.

/unless you are saying that the author is illiterate, maybe?

LittleSmitty: I'll eat almost anything. Except for Liver, or other organ meats like "sweet breads" or gizzards. Oh and add placenta to that list.

But I loves me some Liverwurst. Especially Liverwurst fried in bacon grease.

Damn, now I'm hungry

the Ultimate test is whether you can eat chitlins. THAT will prove whether you are Man or mouse.

i thought i was the Dude and tried chitlins once. wow, i couldn't do it.

WTF is wrong with people? Animals also eat their offspring's shiat, but I don't see people sucking on dirty diapers.

Eating a placenta is murder. Every life is precious.

God help us all when Gorgor gets wind of this thread.

A disturbingly good read.

WHY A SOW PIG IS SMARTER THAN A WOMAN:

Back in the horse-and-buggy days, there was an old pig farmer whose wife was very pregnant. "How much y'all charge me to deliver that baby?" he asked the country doctor.

"Twenty-five Dollars," the Doctor replied.

"Damn, that's a lot of money," the pig farmer said. "Tell you what, I've caught many a litter of piglets in my life, and I've noticed, a woman is downright similar. I'll just do the job myself, and save the money."

Two weeks later they met again. "How did it go?" the Doctor asked.

"Not too bad," the pig farmer replied. "Got a nice healthy eight-pound baby boy---but you should have told me, a woman is nowhere near as smart as a sow pig?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"I had to sit on top of her and fight with her for three hours to get her to eat the afterbirth, but a sow pig knows enough to eat it without being told!"

Placenta;Is that the Italian cornbread or the phony sugar pill?

Cytokine Storm: No Gorgor yet?

EmmaLou: WTF is wrong with people? Animals also eat their offspring's shiat, but I don't see people sucking on dirty diapers.

If anybody can find it....

Gyrfalcon: Chariset: Err.... her own placenta?

Well, if she wants to eat someone ELSE'S placenta, you should run screaming into the night and never return. Because it won't stop at placentas.

Newsletter, please.

EmmaLou: WTF is wrong with people? Animals also eat their offspring's shiat, but I don't see people sucking on dirty diapers.

Chewable Pampers

placenta eating should be in the prenup.

bukketmaster: Cytokine Storm: No Gorgor yet?

EmmaLou: WTF is wrong with people? Animals also eat their offspring's shiat, but I don't see people sucking on dirty diapers.

If anybody can find it....

unless you're a noob (not you personally, just in general) if you haven't been able to see stuff on the internet that you'd never think you'd ever see and/or can't unless, then you're doing it wrong.

EmmaLou: WTF is wrong with people? Animals also eat their offspring's shiat, but I don't see people sucking on dirty diapers.

What's with all these fallacious responses to a fallacious argument? Both sound ridiculous.

Other animals do a lot of things that humans do, and do a lot of things that humans don't do now.

What politician wrote the law that said that placentas had to be cooked in the owner's kitchen? And then what group of them voted to approve it?

bukketmaster: Cytokine Storm: No Gorgor yet?

EmmaLou: WTF is wrong with people? Animals also eat their offspring's shiat, but I don't see people sucking on dirty diapers.

If anybody can find it....

Yeah, let's not summon Gorgor here. Rule 34 really ought to take a day off on this one.

That was a genuinely entertaining article. Bravo on the excellent writing!

/assuming the author reads Fark threads
//dosen't everyone?

Rule 34.

Linux_Yes: LittleSmitty: I'll eat almost anything. Except for Liver, or other organ meats like "sweet breads" or gizzards. Oh and add placenta to that list.

But I loves me some Liverwurst. Especially Liverwurst fried in bacon grease.

Damn, now I'm hungry

the Ultimate test is whether you can eat chitlins. THAT will prove whether you are Man or mouse.

i thought i was the Dude and tried chitlins once. wow, i couldn't do it.

I'm from Alabama. I've seen my share of chitlins. I can't get passed the smell. Kinda like Limburger cheese. My dad used to eat that crap. Yarf.

Thanks, 100 Watt Walrus...I was looking for that

/just finished lunch, too...you bastards

Yes animals eat the placenta as a matter of course... because they need the nutrients. Life is harsh in the wild, you don't know where it's going to come from if you don't. It's a mass of free protein and chock full of iron... you'd be a fool not to if you don't know when you'll be eating next, especially now you have a baby to take care of.

We humans on the other hand, have invented agriculture and as such we have access to regular supplies of high quality protein, energy, vitamins and minerals from a multitude of sources. Do you prefer vegan sources or a bit of steak? Take your pick, it's merely a matter of preference and preparation.

Given that, the placenta is medical waste and nothing more. Bury it under a tree if you're a romantic sort, throw it in the biohazard bucket if you're a utilitarian.

There's arguments that there are hormones in the placenta that prevent post-partum depression, and other ailments that new mothers are prone to... so far the evidence is scant and purely heresay. When I see some hard numbers supporting the positive results of placenta eating, I'll re-evaluate, but as of right now, it's disgusting and as such should not be tolerated in civilized society.

If you do it, keep it quiet because as far as I'm concerned you're a freak, just slightly under the level of cannibalism... and I won't hesitate to say so to your face.

No Gorgor yet? The anticipation is palpable...

My mom just told me a very funny story about her friend putting a dog's placenta in the garbage disposal. It went all over the kitchen as if it had been put in a blender with no top.

Okay, it was funny when my mom told it, but I don't have her knack for telling a story.

I can't even remember what breed the dog was. I know, the funny's in the details....

A friend of my gf ate her own placenta. There're photos. Bathtub-birth(utterly gross). She was(and still is to some degree) a typical granola eating, smelly, shiftless, vegan, pc, all life has meaning hippie. The funny thing is, not a week after eating the placenta, she started eating meat on a regular basis. Organic meat, but the girl grills a mean burger.

A recently moved in neighbor of mine found something rotting in the refrigerator. She thought it was a roast, but eventually was told by the previous tenant that was her placenta. The refrigerator was disposed of.

Ikahoshi: ...If you do it, keep it quiet because as far as I'm concerned you're a freak, just slightly under the level of cannibalism... and I won't hesitate to say so to your face.

Promise?

Most mammals, Cassandra explained, eat their placentas, to which I countered that most dogs eat their poop. I stopped arguing there, figuring that like many of Cassandra's hippie ideas - the compost bin, rubbing lemon on her underarms instead of deodorant - she'd give up on this in a few weeks.

Congratulations. You married a moron, and you are a moron yourself for doing so.

Placenta Cocktail
Ingredients:

1/4 cup fresh, raw placenta
8oz V-8 juice
2 ice cubes
1/2 cup carrot

Method: blend at high speed for 10 seconds. Serve. A tasty thirst quencher!

/Not bad with vodka

For those of you who have never seen one, the placenta is to the baby what Stephen Baldwin is to Alec Baldwin.

I've long sought something awful to compare the lesser Baldwins to. At last, I have my answer.

When you gross out people who work at a hospital, you have accomplished something.

I LOL'd

Ikahoshi: Given that, the placenta is medical waste and nothing more. Bury it under a tree if you're a romantic sort, throw it in the biohazard bucket if you're a utilitarian.

There's arguments that there are hormones in the placenta that prevent post-partum depression, and other ailments that new mothers are prone to... so far the evidence is scant and purely heresay. When I see some hard numbers supporting the positive results of placenta eating, I'll re-evaluate, but as of right now, it's disgusting and as such should not be tolerated in civilized society.

If there WERE important hormones or something in it, then they'd surely be destroyed by cooking, wouldn't they?
Unless you're a raw placenta person... which is a whole 'nother kind of hardcore disgusting right there.

robohobo: A friend of my gf ate her own placenta. There're photos. Bathtub-birth(utterly gross). She was(and still is to some degree) a typical granola eating, smelly, shiftless, vegan, pc, all life has meaning hippie. The funny thing is, not a week after eating the placenta, she started eating meat on a regular basis. Organic meat, but the girl grills a mean burger.


No... you don't understand... that's placenta... she thinks she's still vegan as long as it's only placenta!

/Cue "Psycho" sountrack.

Have it tanned and crafted into a football that is given to the boy after he wins his first championship game.

kb7rky: Ikahoshi: ...If you do it, keep it quiet because as far as I'm concerned you're a freak, just slightly under the level of cannibalism... and I won't hesitate to say so to your face.

Promise?

Promise.

Back in High School I worked in a one hour photo lab. One of the regular customers dropped off a roll of film and they warned me it was of the birth of their son, but that didn't concern me as I had viewed dozens of birth photos before. While double checking the prints for quality control everything seemed pretty normal. Shots of the birth, holding the newborn, etc. About half-way through they had multiple shots of dinner preparation and the entire family eating. It took me a few moments to realize that the shots were of the placenta being fried.+YUM!

Most mammals, Cassandra explained, eat their placentas, to which I countered that most dogs eat their poop. I stopped arguing there, figuring that like many of Cassandra's hippie ideas - the compost bin, rubbing lemon on her underarms instead of deodorant - she'd give up on this in a few weeks.

Congratulations. You married a moron, and you are a moron yourself for doing so.


The pills, she explained, were superior, since Cassandra could stretch their hormone-rich benefits much further, perhaps even freezing some for menopause. Sara did not understand that when Cassandra's looks fade in her 50s, there's no way I'm putting up with this crap.

Okay, so you married her for her looks. It's good that you wrote that line right there because until now I assumed that you married a woman for her intellect or personality. Enjoy the hell you have checked yourself into, douchebag. You deserve it.

HOLY FARK DO NOT GOOGLE IMAGE IT!!! Omg I really don't want that to come out of me at some point... Even worse is I use placenta shampoo,think I'm going to toss that out now.

TheGreatGazoo: What politician wrote the law that said that placentas had to be cooked in the owner's kitchen? And then what group of them voted to approve it?

Personally, I approve of the law about placentas being prepared in the owner's kitchen.
Can you imagine going to a resturant where they cooked a placenta for a recent mother? You would never go back.

Two Dogs Farking: midwife

For while I thought that there might be something worthwhile in a midwife.

Then I read your post. WTF?

Seriously.

IonBeam2: Most mammals, Cassandra explained, eat their placentas, to which I countered that most dogs eat their poop. I stopped arguing there, figuring that like many of Cassandra's hippie ideas - the compost bin, rubbing lemon on her underarms instead of deodorant - she'd give up on this in a few weeks.

Congratulations. You married a moron, and you are a moron yourself for doing so.


The pills, she explained, were superior, since Cassandra could stretch their hormone-rich benefits much further, perhaps even freezing some for menopause. Sara did not understand that when Cassandra's looks fade in her 50s, there's no way I'm putting up with this crap.

Okay, so you married her for her looks. It's good that you wrote that line right there because until now I assumed that you married a woman for her intellect or personality. Enjoy the hell you have checked yourself into, douchebag. You deserve it.

... Seriously, man? This represents your actual thought process upon reading this?

rokesch: Back in High School I worked in a one hour photo lab. One of the regular customers dropped off a roll of film and they warned me it was of the birth of their son, but that didn't concern me as I had viewed dozens of birth photos before. While double checking the prints for quality control everything seemed pretty normal. Shots of the birth, holding the newborn, etc. About half-way through they had multiple shots of dinner preparation and the entire family eating. It took me a few moments to realize that the shots were of the placenta being fried.+YUM!


As tenuous of a legitimate argument as it is, the only reason placenta is supposed to be consumed is for the mother to reabsorb the nutrients lost from childbirth. It's not an excuse to have dinner for the whole family.

If anyone other than the mother eats placenta, it should be declared cannibalism.

Seriously.

Sara Pereira? I'd eat her placenta

I agree with 100 Watt Walrus.

This is one of the stupidest fads to have come along in ages. Technically, if she shares it -- like some do at Placenta Parties -- it's cannibalism.

I think I'd look at my wife (if I was married) in a whole different way if she insisted on munching on the afterbirth. Just as I'd look at her if she suddenly told me she got turned on by eating shiat. (That porn thingie you stumble across on the Internet.) I think divorce might cross my mind.

I think this whole mess started, as did many stupid things, in the 80s with the yuppies. You know, the group who introduced $8 cups of coffee, waxed nearly romantic about bottles of costly wine, frowned on anyone who didn't jog 10 miles a day, made looking goofy in sandals, shorts, bike helmet and fanny pack a fashion statement and drove BMWs.

However, the article was quite well written and amusing.

careybou: HOLY FARK DO NOT GOOGLE IMAGE IT!!! Omg I really don't want that to come out of me at some point... Even worse is I use placenta shampoo,think I'm going to toss that out now.

I am now getting a really hilarious image of a woman wearing a placenta as a shower cap.

When she decides to eat the baby too, that's where I draw the line.

Relax, it's cranberry jello.

rokesch: Back in High School I worked in a one hour photo lab. One of the regular customers dropped off a roll of film and they warned me it was of the birth of their son, but that didn't concern me as I had viewed dozens of birth photos before. While double checking the prints for quality control everything seemed pretty normal. Shots of the birth, holding the newborn, etc. About half-way through they had multiple shots of dinner preparation and the entire family eating. It took me a few moments to realize that the shots were of the placenta being fried.+YUM!

I once went with a friend whose wife had just had a baby to get the pictures done. We dropped off a disposable camera at a one hour photo lab, and told the guy there that the pictures were of my friend giving birth, so there could be some grossness there. We came back to pick them up, and this photo guy said "You REALLY should develop these elsewhere, somewhere more private!" He seemed really disturbed, and I thought... dude, there might be some slimy nekkid newborn in there, but it's hardly porn, you know?

We went out to the parking lot with the pictures and I started looking through them while the car warmed up, and then, I saw it. Howling with laughter, I showed the pictures to the proud new dad. The roommate and some unknown third pary had borrowed the camera and had used it to take pictures of her and her boyfriend, butt-ass nekkid and goin' at it like alley cats.

this is relevant to my interests...

a friend of mine became pregnant recently and the first thing i asked her was if i could have the placenta. i'd planned to grill it up on the weber over a medium-high heat, seal it on both sides first and then cook it over indirect heat with a little hickory smoke until medium-rare.

she initially agreed but backed out later when it became obvious that i was serious :(

Sara did not understand that when Cassandra's looks fade in her 50s, there's no way I'm putting up with this crap.

I don't know where he resides but given that he went to Stanford and used to write for the LA Times I would like to point out to him that prenups in Cali expire after 10 years thanks to the Trial Lawyer Association buying all the state legislators a metric butt load of hookers and blow so he better start planning the old "exit stratergy" now.

legion_of_doo: WTF?

/yeah, honey, let's run around naked like animals, eat raw meat, eat our own poop, eat placentas, and do barbaric crap because animals do it too. In fact, f*** the house & the mortgage... let's just live in the trees like our monkey uncles.

Our first biggest mistake was leaving the trees.

Our second biggest mistake was leaving the caves.

BACK TO THE CAVES!

Hippy chicks seem fun at first when their worst trait is listening to the Dead while you get it on. Then they want to eat a placenta. It all ends up years later with the 'Earth Mother Gaia Worship and Colonic Health Solstice Party' in your backyard. 40+ year old unshaven hippy boilers talking about their feelings while doing enemas and burning a shiatload of sage. If you ever find yourself wanting to bang a hippy run away as fast as you can!

100 Watt Walrus -

I ate a slice of homemade pumpkin pie while reading that article, so I'm really getting a kick out of your pic.

And that sums up my reaction to the story, too.

No no no fark no fark NO no. NO. fark this is another reason why I am happy staying single

opentin1: this is relevant to my interests...

a friend of mine became pregnant recently and the first thing i asked her was if i could have the placenta. i'd planned to grill it up on the weber over a medium-high heat, seal it on both sides first and then cook it over indirect heat with a little hickory smoke until medium-rare.

she initially agreed but backed out later when it became obvious that i was serious :(

With some fava beans and a nice chianti, I'm guessing?

smells_like_meat: In which was part of my son's umbilical cord, fashioned into a heart.

Oh, this kid is going to grow up normal.

What normal may look like:

TheGreatGazoo: What politician wrote the law that said that placentas had to be cooked in the owner's kitchen? And then what group of them voted to approve it?

I'm assuming this is more one of those regulations set up by a bureaucrat than a law passed by a legislature.

careybou: HOLY FARK DO NOT GOOGLE IMAGE IT!!! Omg I really don't want that to come out of me at some point... Even worse is I use placenta shampoo,think I'm going to toss that out now.

The placenta is an organ created within the uterus of a mammal specifically to protect and support a developing fetus through all sorts of activities. Of course its bloody and veiny and chewy. What the fark did you think it looked like? Billowy clouds above a romantic lavender sunset?

Geez Gorgor, c'mon, I don't have all day.

Wow. That article was like watching a divorce 20 years in advance. Way to marry shallow, dude.

Where can I find a guy who will marry me just for my body, mock me in a national article, and refer to how things will be different when I'm aged and no longer worth as much?

Oh wait, I'm with someone sincere. Nevermind.

Somacandra: careybou: HOLY FARK DO NOT GOOGLE IMAGE IT!!! Omg I really don't want that to come out of me at some point... Even worse is I use placenta shampoo,think I'm going to toss that out now.

The placenta is an organ created within the uterus of a mammal specifically to protect and support a developing fetus through all sorts of activities. Of course its bloody and veiny and chewy. What the fark did you think it looked like? Billowy
clouds above a romantic lavender sunset?

No but I didn't think it would look like an abortion. I mean now that I think about it, it makes sense but yeah I didn't realize how large it is, its like you squirted out the baby and uterus and ovaries and a liver.

Best thing about that article was the link TIME provided to their 1933 piece on Medical Placentas. (new window)

You guys should live on a farm, I lived on a horse farm and helped deliver foals each spring. Had to pull one out forcibly because of a "red bag" delivery. You have to tie up the umbilical and all the grossness into knots and let it hang from the mama's hoo hoo untill the placenta and all the nasties fall out from gravity. It smells awful.

Eating that crap? Oh goodness some chicks are weird.

Ikahoshi

If anyone other than the mother eats placenta, it should be declared cannibalism.

No. If the Mother eats it, she is eating her child's tissues. The placenta is not part of the mother's body. It is a discarded, no-longer-needed part of the baby's body. It interfaced with hers. Some of the blood there is hers. Most is the baby's, which contains an immature form of red blood cells that can pick up more oxygen and release more carbon dioxide. That's how it survives in there, the cutsy wootsy Mommy's little parasite.

Gah, that is revolting!

/Sick tag is sick today?

dobro: Placenta;Is that the Italian cornbread or the phony sugar pill?

It's Italian bacon duh! or the city in Northern Italy. oh wait, Piacenza is called Placentia in Latin, maybe I'm on to something.

gunsculptor- It's Italian bacon duh! or the city in Northern Italy. oh wait, Piacenza is called Placentia in Latin, maybe I'm on to something.

I have a cigar box with the word 'Placentia' printed on it. I never made the connection but now I know what to use it for. Thanks Fark!

is it me, or are some of those posting here, taking some of the guys obvious attempts at humor little too literally?

We did the midwife thing (not my idea) and I buried both my kid's placentas in our raspberry patch behind the house. When we moved out I wondered if I should tell the new owners about it. I decided what they didn't know wouldn't hurt them and I'd hate to see all of those awesome raspberries go to waste.

redsquid: Hippy chicks seem fun at first when their worst trait is listening to the Dead while you get it on. Then they want to eat a placenta. It all ends up years later with the 'Earth Mother Gaia Worship and Colonic Health Solstice Party' in your backyard. 40+ year old unshaven hippy boilers talking about their feelings while doing enemas and burning a shiatload of sage. If you ever find yourself wanting to bang a hippy run away as fast as you can!

Don't knock it til you try em! One of my best lovers was a full blown hippy chick.
Though the armpit hair was a bit offputting, but it's just hair.

gunsculptor: is it me, or are some of those posting here, taking some of the guys obvious attempts at humor little too literally?

Quite.

Cerebral Ballsy: Wow. That article was like watching a divorce 20 years in advance. Way to marry shallow, dude.

Where can I find a guy who will marry me just for my body, mock me in a national article, and refer to how things will be different when I'm aged and no longer worth as much?

Oh wait, I'm with someone sincere. Nevermind.

I can only imagine this kind of statement will resurface at some point as irony when your sincere partner files for divorce claiming you having no sense of humor are self righteous and a complete bore?

Holy s**t that is VILE.

/Threw up in my mouth a little

"f I ever kill a man in my own home, I am totally calling the placenta lady. "

does anyone have any good placenta recipes? or is it best served raw?

fusillade762: God help us all when Gorgor gets wind of this thread.


I'm going to sound incredibly ignorant here but what's the deal with Gorgor? He posts sum great stuff but I read somewhere earlier today that he's banned from submitting articles. He never says much either

some_beer_drinker: does anyone have any good placenta recipes? or is it best served raw?

1 whole placenta
1 medical waste disposal bin


Combine ingredients. Walk away. Get drunk.

TheGreatGazoo: What politician wrote the law that said that placentas had to be cooked in the owner's kitchen? And then what group of them voted to approve it?


OmfG I bet THAT session would have been entertaining as hell to listen in on!

TheGreatGazoo: What politician wrote the law that said that placentas had to be cooked in the owner's kitchen? And then what group of them voted to approve it?

It almost didn't pass because they added alot of pork.

as long as there's some A1 on hand, you're good.

dlime16: Are you guys serious? You wouldn't eat the placenta if you gave birth? It's there to help provide nutrition. It exists for a reason and is helpful for you.



And looks god damn delicious.

That's the placenta's good side you know. The other side looks like frondy alien mess. That part actually doesn't look too bad, but the other side creeps me the fark out.
Link (new window)
And I am such a nice guy that I did not shiat the image directly into the thread.

The irony of my situation was I had just finished lunch...which consisted of a fishwich.

It shouldn't be too hard to connect the dots..

Jormungandr: dlime16: Are you guys serious? You wouldn't eat the placenta if you gave birth? It's there to help provide nutrition. It exists for a reason and is helpful for you.



And looks god damn delicious.

That's the placenta's good side you know. The other side looks like frondy alien mess. That part actually doesn't look too bad, but the other side creeps me the fark out.
Link (new window)
And I am such a nice guy that I did not shiat the image directly into the thread.

No thanks...I've already successfully kept lunch down. I don't want to give up dinner.

/actual image of someone eating placenta umbilical cord

I actually cooked and ate placenta last year. It started off as a bit of a joke early in the pregnancy, but somewhere along the line I got a few people to agree to eat it if I actually went through with it. As it turned out it was twins - bloody massive old placenta. Looked like calves liver. I did it on the chargrill and served it with swiss chard, pancetta, pine nuts & balsamic vinegar. If you can get it out of your head it's placenta then it's no more challenging than liver or kidneys. But of course you can't because you're eating a f*cking placenta that came out of your wife's growler...... so it was vile.

The article is pretty good, considering it was written by a man. Sometimes you guys have a really funny outlook on things. Always a good laugh. Hope his wife doesn't have to deal with post-partum depression.

Somacandra: Of course its bloody and veiny and chewy. What the fark did you think it looked like? Billowy clouds above a romantic lavender sunset?

Lavender?

You know this ain't Mars. The colors in sunsets here on Earth tend towards the red & orange end of the spectrum.

/FYI

triptik: Have it tanned and crafted into a football that is given to the boy after he wins his first championship game.



Why did you do that? WHY?

Catsmeow: Ikahoshi

If anyone other than the mother eats placenta, it should be declared cannibalism.


No. If the Mother eats it, she is eating her child's tissues. The placenta is not part of the mother's body. It is a discarded, no-longer-needed part of the baby's body. It interfaced with hers. Some of the blood there is hers. Most is the baby's, which contains an immature form of red blood cells that can pick up more oxygen and release more carbon dioxide. That's how it survives in there, the cutsy wootsy Mommy's little parasite.


Well technically the placenta is a cooperative association of the mother's and the baby's tissues, so although there is a certain amount of the child's tissue there, it's still sorta a part of the mother's body, as a part of the process of reproduction. Additionally, since mammal mothers are the ones who eat the placenta in survival situations, I'd say that's the natural way it's done.

When other people partake it transcends a no longer useful survival driven habit, and moves into the cannibalism range of behavior.

Therefore I stand by my original statement.

Note I said natural, not preferred. It's also natural to occasionally eat feces, but I don't endorse that behavior either.

placentOWNED

So it's not ok to eat meat, unless you shoot it out of your front butt?

Ikahoshi: Lavender?

You know this ain't Mars. The colors in sunsets here on Earth tend towards the red & orange end of the spectrum.



It can happen:

I have two comments:

1) It came out of the woman's body and if it helps with postpartum depression and she's willing to eat it, then good on her. Whatever floats your boat. PPD is truly horrible. Hearing of a new mother who ate her placenta vs. new mother bashing her and her newborns head on bottom of an overpass. Which is worse? Again, science is inconclusive at this.
2) I'm with the granola hippy chick and you know, it's pretty good. Yeah, there are these quirks but they make life interesting. They keep the relationship interesting. And sometimes it's good for you. Heck, I might even try going vegetarian in the next year. Change things up a bit.
Screw you boring ass haters. Hope your life is dull, lonely and you decide to kill yourselves, soon.
The guy in the article: I hope he was trying to be funny. Unfortunately he didn't come off as funny, just mean. I can relate, and in fact might share some of the same sentiments, but i wouldn't voice those feelings in such a crude and mean way.

Dangl1ng: I have two comments:

1) It came out of the woman's body and if it helps with postpartum depression and she's willing to eat it, then good on her. Whatever floats your boat. PPD is truly horrible. Hearing of a new mother who ate her placenta vs. new mother bashing her and her newborns head on bottom of an overpass. Which is worse? Again, science is inconclusive at this.
2) I'm with the granola hippy chick and you know, it's pretty good. Yeah, there are these quirks but they make life interesting. They keep the relationship interesting. And sometimes it's good for you. Heck, I might even try going vegetarian in the next year. Change things up a bit.
Screw you boring ass haters. Hope your life is dull, lonely and you decide to kill yourselves, soon.
The guy in the article: I hope he was trying to be funny. Unfortunately he didn't come off as funny, just mean. I can relate, and in fact might share some of the same sentiments, but i wouldn't voice those feelings in such a crude and mean way.

Yeah, but I really think they need to due away with mothers who kill their babby. becuse these babby cant frigth back?
it was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three kids . they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots

OK, so I think eating the placenta is totally nasty (I am a bit of a hippie and a girl but also a vegetarian mostly, so that admittedly may have something to do with it). BUT no one seems to have pointed out that this chick called someone to have hers made into a bunch of pills. While I'm still not into it personally, I do think this is a way to get whatever benefits there may or may not be in a much MUCH less gross way. I mean, you just swallow a pill with some dried powdery stuff in it. No, like, chewing (ewww) involved. No BBQ sauce necessary.

So while still gross, I'm just saying it's much more doable this way.

(Also, I garden, and the 'bury it by a tree' also weirds me out - I dunno.)

Peki: The article is pretty good, considering it was written by a man. Sometimes you guys have a really funny outlook on things. Always a good laugh. Hope his wife doesn't have to deal with post-partum depression.


Do I detect a passive agressive jab in support of placenta eating?

There's no evidence whatsoever that ingesting placenta does anything medical for a new mother. None. It's not even a common practice among all traditional peoples, only a minority, like circumcision, which implies it's a cultural choice, not a biological necessity.

However, If you do support the concept of eating the placenta for supposed medically beneficial effects... you should be aware that cooking it would destroy or denature most of the hormones that would supposedly help the mother if it were true.

So be ready to drink that raw placenta smoothie, since cooked it's little better than meat.


If that doesn't appeal to you, you could go for a nice veal liver, fry that up and have that instead, get the same effects with a bonus: you'd not be considered a cannibal.

Yay!

Gawdzila: Ikahoshi: Lavender?

You know this ain't Mars. The colors in sunsets here on Earth tend towards the red & orange end of the spectrum.



It can happen:




Looks like pink to me. Lavender is a blue-mauve color.

Perhaps you mean fuscia? I've seen that before. Rare, but it happens.

This article and the ensuing thread made me thankful for the clinical nature of my c-section. I'm all for breastfeeding and some of the granola parental trends but this is just wrong. Just because it happens in nature (with animals) doesn't mean it is natural for humans.

/icked out for days, I fear

Iron Chef Scottish: I actually cooked and ate placenta last year. It started off as a bit of a joke early in the pregnancy, but somewhere along the line I got a few people to agree to eat it if I actually went through with it. As it turned out it was twins - bloody massive old placenta. Looked like calves liver. I did it on the chargrill and served it with swiss chard, pancetta, pine nuts & balsamic vinegar. If you can get it out of your head it's placenta then it's no more challenging than liver or kidneys. But of course you can't because you're eating a f*cking placenta that came out of your wife's growler...... so it was vile.

You will know eventually that she'll go batshiat insane.

zincprincess: This article and the ensuing thread made me thankful for the clinical nature of my c-section. I'm all for breastfeeding and some of the granola parental trends but this is just wrong. Just because it happens in nature (with animals) doesn't mean it is natural for humans.

/icked out for days, I fear



And just think, every time you see your scar, you'll be reminded of this thread and will be icked out for days again

Dangl1ng:
Screw you boring ass haters. Hope your life is dull, lonely and you decide to kill yourselves, soon.
The guy in the article: I hope he was trying to be funny. Unfortunately he didn't come off as funny, just mean. I can relate, and in fact might share some of the same sentiments, but i wouldn't voice those feelings in such a crude and mean way.

/facepalm

gunsculptor: Cerebral Ballsy: Wow. That article was like watching a divorce 20 years in advance. Way to marry shallow, dude.

Where can I find a guy who will marry me just for my body, mock me in a national article, and refer to how things will be different when I'm aged and no longer worth as much?

Oh wait, I'm with someone sincere. Nevermind.

I can only imagine this kind of statement will resurface at some point as irony when your sincere partner files for divorce claiming you having no sense of humor are self righteous and a complete bore?

Wow. You know so much about me from one post, you're f*cking amazing man! You ever work for the Psychic Friends Network?

As for my sense of humor, which is quite robust and witty, there's one thing I don't do: trash talk my partner. And certainly not to sell a few copies of a low grade news magazine. If I had a problem (and I would have a problem eating placenta or even having it in the kitchen), I would tell him like a normal, rational adult. And like a normal rational adult, I would not marry someone who was batshiat insane.

I know, logic is a strange thing here on the net, and the exposure to me must have shocked you.

editorial_distractions: OK, so I think eating the placenta is totally nasty (I am a bit of a hippie and a girl but also a vegetarian mostly, so that admittedly may have something to do with it). BUT no one seems to have pointed out that this chick called someone to have hers made into a bunch of pills. While I'm still not into it personally, I do think this is a way to get whatever benefits there may or may not be in a much MUCH less gross way. I mean, you just swallow a pill with some dried powdery stuff in it. No, like, chewing (ewww) involved. No BBQ sauce necessary.

So while still gross, I'm just saying it's much more doable this way.

(Also, I garden, and the 'bury it by a tree' also weirds me out - I dunno.)

It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!

Cerebral Ballsy: I would not marry someone who was batshiat insane.

I have you Farkied as "insane" and I don't remember why. I'm sure it must have been something you said.

Cerebral Ballsy:
Wow. You know so much about me from one post, you're f*cking amazing man! You ever work for the Psychic Friends Network?

As for my sense of humor, which is quite robust and witty, there's one thing I don't do: trash talk my partner. And certainly not to sell a few copies of a low grade news magazine. If I had a problem (and I would have a problem eating placenta or even having it in the kitchen), I would tell him like a normal, rational adult. And like a normal rational adult, I would not marry someone who was batshiat insane.

I know, logic is a strange thing here on the net, and the exposure to me must have shocked you.

/facepalm

EmmaLou: WTF is wrong with people? Animals also eat their offspring's shiat, but I don't see people sucking on dirty diapers.

You haven't spent enough time on the internet.

Thanks to this story I am now able to stick to my diet because I am sick to my stomach.

The crazy skank is probably a vegetarian too.

Ikahoshi: Looks like pink to me. Lavender is a blue-mauve color.

Perhaps you mean fuscia?

Are you seriously being that nitpicky?
Look, here is lavender the flower, which is what I imagine Crayola is going for when they name their crayons:


I'm pretty certain I can find something close to that color in the picture somewhere. Perhaps not precisely (I doubt lavender has an exact agreed-upon RGB value anyway), but that isn't really the point. The point is that we do, in fact, have light-purple colors in our sunsets, not just red-orange.

At the end of the article:

Watch TIME's video "Eating Placenta."

No, thank you. Really. No. Just...no.

This is the most relevant thing Mark Steyn has ever written.

Article is full of win. And, as a father who has experienced the "placenta tug-of-war" that the doctor does after the birth, as for eating the damn thing, I can only say: Christ on a bicycle.

/Only part of the birth process that made me turn green
//rest of it is something that is too incredible for words

scalpod: legion_of_doo: WTF?

/yeah, honey, let's run around naked like animals, eat raw meat, eat our own poop, eat placentas, and do barbaric crap because animals do it too. In fact, f*** the house & the mortgage... let's just live in the trees like our monkey uncles.

Our first biggest mistake was leaving the trees.

Our second biggest mistake was leaving the caves.

BACK TO THE CAVES!

It was leaving the ocean.

RicosRoughnecks: Cats do make cleaning up easy when they give birth. I was disgusted at first when my cat had five kittens and those gross placentas came out. Then I was happy she gobbled them up since it meant I didn't have to touch them.

That's hardcore. Eating that shiat raw. Just, damn.

Thunderpipes: You guys should live on a farm, I lived on a horse farm and helped deliver foals each spring. Had to pull one out forcibly because of a "red bag" delivery. You have to tie up the umbilical and all the grossness into knots and let it hang from the mama's hoo hoo untill the placenta and all the nasties fall out from gravity. It smells awful.

Eating that crap? Oh goodness some chicks are weird.

I worked on a horse farm and I've done that many times. Fourteen or more foals a season, fourteen or more placentas a year. I usually had to cart the placenta off into the woods later to keep coyotes away. Absolutely disgusting even several feet away at the end of a pitchfork.

I never wanted children, but that nasty thing coming out of me is just an extra reason to never spawn. Watching the vet use his bare farking hands to inspect the placenta is humbling, because damn that's nasty.

My WAG:

Animals may be in labor for many hours, without the ability to find food for a day or more.
Placenta is almost pure protein and doesn't run away.
Stillborn babies are also pure protein.

If the mother doesn't eat the placenta and the stillborn, another predator will arrive to do so, and may eat the live babies and even mom too.

The phrase dog eat dog world comes to mind.

Link to this dude's placenta party with gratuitous shout out to /b/

Cerebral Ballsy: As for my sense of humor, which is quite robust and witty, there's one thing I don't do: trash talk my partner. And certainly not to sell a few copies of a low grade news magazine. If I had a problem (and I would have a problem eating placenta or even having it in the kitchen), I would tell him like a normal, rational adult. And like a normal rational adult, I would not marry someone who was batshiat insane.

You are aware that the article was comedy, right?

I don't know about you guys, but my fiance and I have thoroughly covered the placenta discussion.

"Hey, hon, you know some people eat their placentas?"
"What's a placenta?"
[GIS and an explanation later] "EWWWWWW"
"If I ever want to eat that, do an Old Yeller on me"
"Gotcha."

Always cover your bases.

/also had the lotus birth, home birth, unassisted birth, cloth TP, cloth diaper, organic foods, hairiness and all-natural deodorant discussions
//Not the sort of thing you want to be surprised by

Wow- from placenta eating, to the relative merits of hippy chicks, to the true definition of 'lavender'. I love Fark!

Pechorin: Dangl1ng: I have two comments:

1) It came out of the woman's body and if it helps with postpartum depression and she's willing to eat it, then good on her. Whatever floats your boat. PPD is truly horrible. Hearing of a new mother who ate her placenta vs. new mother bashing her and her newborns head on bottom of an overpass. Which is worse? Again, science is inconclusive at this.
2) I'm with the granola hippy chick and you know, it's pretty good. Yeah, there are these quirks but they make life interesting. They keep the relationship interesting. And sometimes it's good for you. Heck, I might even try going vegetarian in the next year. Change things up a bit.
Screw you boring ass haters. Hope your life is dull, lonely and you decide to kill yourselves, soon.
The guy in the article: I hope he was trying to be funny. Unfortunately he didn't come off as funny, just mean. I can relate, and in fact might share some of the same sentiments, but i wouldn't voice those feelings in such a crude and mean way.

Yeah, but I really think they need to due away with mothers who kill their babby. becuse these babby cant frigth back?
it was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three kids . they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots

Thank ya I almost forgot about this gem (no placenta pics, just a quick flash funny)(new window)

Dangl1ng: Screw you boring ass haters. Hope your life is dull, lonely and you decide to kill yourselves, soon.
The guy in the article: I hope he was trying to be funny. Unfortunately he didn't come off as funny, just mean. I can relate, and in fact might share some of the same sentiments, but i wouldn't voice those feelings in such a crude and mean way.

Are.. are you trying to be ironic?

Approves.
/hot like fresh placenta

Wrong_Intentions: Wouldn't eating the placenta technically count as cannibalism? 'Cuz if she gets to do that, the guy should totally get a free pass for necrophilia. Just sayin'.

I'd put it at worse than eating your boogers, but not as bad as cannibalism.

/met a woman who got to take her uterus home after a hysterectomy and her cat got into it and ate it.
//we are, just meat after all.

Cerebral Ballsy: gunsculptor: Cerebral Ballsy: Wow. That article was like watching a divorce 20 years in advance. Way to marry shallow, dude.

Where can I find a guy who will marry me just for my body, mock me in a national article, and refer to how things will be different when I'm aged and no longer worth as much?

Oh wait, I'm with someone sincere. Nevermind.

I can only imagine this kind of statement will resurface at some point as irony when your sincere partner files for divorce claiming you having no sense of humor are self righteous and a complete bore?

Wow. You know so much about me from one post, you're f*cking amazing man! You ever work for the Psychic Friends Network?

As for my sense of humor, which is quite robust and witty, there's one thing I don't do: trash talk my partner. And certainly not to sell a few copies of a low grade news magazine. If I had a problem (and I would have a problem eating placenta or even having it in the kitchen), I would tell him like a normal, rational adult. And like a normal rational adult, I would not marry someone who was batshiat insane.

I know, logic is a strange thing here on the net, and the exposure to me must have shocked you.

wow, feel better now? Thank you for making my point. You seem to either be clueless or just strung so tightly and thin skinned you can't help yourself, either way, you make it far too easy. Chances are, if you have to profess yourself as "robust (like the placenta and witty" it probably isn't so.

But to my great relief, she brought her own equipment, gloves, sponges and even more detergent than I'd hoped, scrubbing constantly as she worked.

I wonder how many other women's placentas were cooked with that equipment.

ZippyChippy: For those of you who have never seen one, the placenta is to the baby what Stephen Baldwin is to Alec Baldwin.

I've long sought something awful to compare the lesser Baldwins to. At last, I have my answer.

lamecat: Thunderpipes: You guys should live on a farm, I lived on a horse farm and helped deliver foals each spring. Had to pull one out forcibly because of a "red bag" delivery. You have to tie up the umbilical and all the grossness into knots and let it hang from the mama's hoo hoo untill the placenta and all the nasties fall out from gravity. It smells awful.

Eating that crap? Oh goodness some chicks are weird.

I worked on a horse farm and I've done that many times. Fourteen or more foals a season, fourteen or more placentas a year. I usually had to cart the placenta off into the woods later to keep coyotes away. Absolutely disgusting even several feet away at the end of a pitchfork.

I never wanted children, but that nasty thing coming out of me is just an extra reason to never spawn. Watching the vet use his bare farking hands to inspect the placenta is humbling, because damn that's nasty.

im usually not *too* squeamish, so when my ex gave birth to our first kid, i figured...eh, wow. babies look like aliens.

anyway, a family friend (and a mother of 2) was there to take pictures of the kid (she had a nice camera, I did not) she started to walk back to the room right after the placenta made its glorious appearance.

the nurse passed her with this...thing...in a bowl and the friend screamed "oh shiat shiat shiat! WHAT THE HELL OH MY GOD"....in her new zealand accent. it was hilarious.

Constance Velocity: /met a woman who got to take her uterus home after a hysterectomy and her cat got into it and ate it.

This is pretty much how I felt after reading that:

DO NOT WANT Poster Girl: Link to this dude's placenta party with gratuitous shout out to /b/

Oh my GOD what's wrong with those people?

There is no font big enough for the YUCK I wish to type.

The placenta is made up of chorion (from baby) and endometrial cells (from Mama, the same that are shed in menstruation). So basically, people who think they are eating their own tissue are sorta right, but a lot wrong. It's like eating a bit menstruation with a bunch of baby.

Any notion that you could get medically significant amounts of hormones from it is weapons-grade stupid. Estrogen is a steroid hormone; it is released right after being synthesized and not stored-up. So while there will be estrogen in the placenta, it's not likely there will be more than a few day's worth.

/Off the top of my head, don't know what % each contribute, but I think the majority is chorion-baby
//Damn hippies.
//Waiting for some freak to try nomming on the umbilical chord.

Nick Nostril: Article is full of win. And, as a father who has experienced the "placenta tug-of-war" that the doctor does after the birth, as for eating the damn thing, I can only say: Christ on a bicycle.

/Only part of the birth process that made me turn green
//rest of it is something that is too incredible for words


This! Damndest thing I've ever seen.

Neuticle: There is no font big enough for the YUCK I wish to type.

The placenta is made up of chorion (from baby) and endometrial cells (from Mama, the same that are shed in menstruation). So basically, people who think they are eating their own tissue are sorta right, but a lot wrong. It's like eating a bit menstruation with a bunch of baby.

Any notion that you could get medically significant amounts of hormones from it is weapons-grade stupid. Estrogen is a steroid hormone; it is released right after being synthesized and not stored-up. So while there will be estrogen in the placenta, it's not likely there will be more than a few day's worth.

/Off the top of my head, don't know what % each contribute, but I think the majority is chorion-baby
//Damn hippies.
//Waiting for some freak to try nomming on the umbilical chord.


I've been waiting for a chance to use this one. Thx!

Are there alternative ways of preparing it?

I mean, it's not my first choice of food, but deep fried or perhaps fajita'd might be doable. Combine the deep fry with a stick and you might just have yourself the next great Fair food.

Nick Nostril: RicosRoughnecks: Cats do make cleaning up easy when they give birth. I was disgusted at first when my cat had five kittens and those gross placentas came out. Then I was happy she gobbled them up since it meant I didn't have to touch them.

That's hardcore. Eating that shiat raw. Just, damn.

Uh....cats pretty much eat everything raw. Just so you know. They don't usually cook mice, in case you were wondering...

Neuticle: The placenta is made up of chorion (from baby) and endometrial cells (from Mama, the same that are shed in menstruation). So basically, people who think they are eating their own tissue are sorta right, but a lot wrong. It's like eating a bit menstruation with a bunch of baby.

Regardless of what tissue it's formed from, it's still a waste product. Calling it cannibalism to eat it would be like calling the events depicted in "2 Girls 1 Cup" an act of cannibalism.

//Waiting for some freak to try nomming on the umbilical chord.

It has probably been done many times.

For those of you who have never seen one, the placenta is to the baby what Stephen Baldwin is to Alec Baldwin.

I think this is possibly the best sentence I have ever or will ever read.

/also, just because most mammals do it doesn't mean it's good for us
//most mammals live naked outdoors
///just sayin'

oh good god. i lived in jamaica plain, ma (boston neighborhood), for ten years. it is home to a fairly diverse population, including earth-crunchy, yippie couples. one day, at Harvest, a local organic grocery co-op, i was drinkin my coffee while perusing the recipe board, and unfortunately came across a recipe for homemade placenta pizza. -facepalm- SO. VERY. wrong. ugh. protip: keep your placenta recipes TO YOURSELF, kthxbai.

The light at the end of the tunnel is that some late night at 4am when you wake up hungry, the fridge is empty and nothing is open, you can click a bookmark to this thread and cease being hungry. However you probably won't be able to get back to sleep then either.

"Don't you eat that!"
"Don't you DARE eat that!!!"
"AH!"
"AAAAAAH!"
"Don't..."
"Don't put that in your mouth"
"Don't put that..."
"You and I are going to have a big talk when we get home, young lady."

stupid, disgusting b*tch. she needs psychiatric help. yes, judged her twice and i don't care. this isn't even funny, it's f*cking gross.

@ Cassandra

A list of other things dogs do;
- drink from the toilet
- eat dental floss
- sniff the assholes of strangers
- eat feces
- shiat on the front lawn
- dry hump a stuffed animal in front of dinner guests
- drag their assholes down the entire length of a carpeted hallway

/just saying

glassbottomboatcaptain: A list of other things dogs do;
- eat dental floss

For some reason, this one isn't a problem for me.

The hippy moms over on mothering. com suggest placenta smoothies, if you're having problems choking the placenta down.

Cook it like you would cook liver, and then cut it up and blend it into fruit smoothies. Masks the taste and you still get the benefits of eating.

Some of them also make "placenta prints" so they can frame them. I don't know if you can make placenta prints AND eat the thing.

Not me, man. I'm not eating ANYTHING that comes out of a human body. Humans are apex-predators. (Well, apex omnivores.) We accumulate toxins from every other animal we eat. God only knows what's in human flesh, but one study in California found high levels of rocket fuel additives and flame retardant chemicals in human breast milk. (And yes, those are neurologically active chemicals. Mother's milk is potentially bad for baby.)

Burp.

Came here to be grossed out, leaving disappointed. I guess a guy who once ordered "raw skate wing in spicy sauce" has somewhat different food prejudices than most of you. :)

Call me when a mom eats her own cancerous placenta, or maybe her stillborn. That'd gag me.

//Skate wing wasn't all that great. The texture reminded me of chewing on a nose. Good sauce, though.
///I can't believe they went to all this trouble for the placenta, but didn't freeze the umbilical cord for stem cells.

Beowoolfie: I guess a guy who once ordered "raw skate wing in spicy sauce" has somewhat different food prejudices than most of you. :)

So what are you saying, that if you saw "placenta in spicy sauce" on a menu somewhere that you might order it? That it wouldn't phase you? Yeah, right. I don't think skate comes anywhere close to this, not even raw. Hell, I'm Mexican, and I'd still say that traditional menudo is more adventurous than skate.

Anyway, I've eaten skate before (admittedly not raw wing but that just doesn't sound tasty), and I still find the concept of eating a placenta to be completely revolting.

Cerebral Ballsy: national

Jeeeeesus Christ, I hope the woman I marry isn't a humourless shrew like yourself.

I enjoyed that article. How does a sensible man end up with a woman who eats placenta?

Ugh.

I deliver babies for a living, and the placenta definitely is the most unsavory part of the whole process. No amount of seasoning or dehydrating could possibly make it anything near edible, even in capsule form.

And yeah, animals eat their placenta- not because it has some hormonal benefit, but because otherwise it attracts wolves.

Gawdzila: Beowoolfie: I guess a guy who once ordered "raw skate wing in spicy sauce" has somewhat different food prejudices than most of you. :)

So what are you saying, that if you saw "placenta in spicy sauce" on a menu somewhere that you might order it? That it wouldn't phase you? Yeah, right. I don't think skate comes anywhere close to this, not even raw. Hell, I'm Mexican, and I'd still say that traditional menudo is more adventurous than skate.

Anyway, I've eaten skate before (admittedly not raw wing but that just doesn't sound tasty), and I still find the concept of eating a placenta to be completely revolting.

I thought menudo was a band or something. Had to look it up...and it looks awesome! I'd definitely order it if I'd ever seen it on a menu.

As for "placenta in spicy sauce"...not human placenta. But placenta from a food animal...maybe. I'm not interested in wolfing down parts of some stranger's body, but that's as much for hygenic reasons as disgust. You could catch ANYTHING from eating human tissue. It's like unsafe sex cubed!

But I don't consider it all that revolting to consider eating one's own...or an intimate partner's. It doesn't sound especially appetizing either, but neither have many things I've eaten in my life. It's all in the preparation :)

Lots of people eat parts of their own bodies, like nail-biters. Any idea what lives under a human fingernail? Talk about disgust.