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Originally Posted by DixieGal
LOL! I'll be right there beside you, sharpening a stick "for defense against willdlife." There can be only one.
So seriously, I used to bite my nails and stuff, which is awfully close to cannibalism, but did y'all cook yourselves or anything? Or was it Tush TarTar? And did you trade lunches or eat your own?
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We filled out forms in which we indicated:
1. Whether we would be willing to donate a portion of our buttocks;
2. Whether we only wanted to taste our own, or would be willing to partake of a fellow volunteer;
3. Whether we had any objection to volunteering flesh for the consumption of a student who did not volunteer their own; and
4. Whether we wanted to opt out of the experiment entirely (no impact on final grade either way).
However, only the prof and the TA knew who got what, so if you opted to try another person's donation, you did not know who it came from.
It was cooked. It had to be cooked .... to many potential diseases from eating any flesh completely raw (I can't even eat most sashimi because I know too much about what can go wrong).
It was essentially a seminar course on alternative eating habits of various social groups. We also tried grubs, scorpions, ... you name it, we probably ate it (although, again .... no one was forced to eat anything, the grade was based mainly on your research paper at the end of the quarter).
Did you know that in some societies, cannibalism is considered the best way to honor your dead? The idea is that your consumption of their flesh keeps them alive inside you and then alive inside the person who eats your flesh on your death. It's an interesting take on immortality and life after death. That was the topic of my research paper .... comparing that view to the Christian ritual of the Communion. I got an A+ .... still have that paper around here somewhere. Also got an A+ on my paper about the Oreopithicus (for my physical anthro seminar).
Heh heh .... "sharpening a stick" .... best defense against the pointed stick?? A banana!!!