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!