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.