Cannibalism, Then and Now

Where else but in the blogosphere could one learn that the medieval practice of consuming powdered human corpses has experienced a questionably legal (and questionably real) renaissance?

A testimonial from the Modern Man-Eater website:

“My bones were just plain getting eaten up by the osteo-porosis. But after eating all the calcium from my mother, I feel SO much better. My bones are strong again. I can feel my mother’s spirit within them making me strong again, just like she did when she was alive!”
-Ota Mae Wilson, NY, NY

Oh, my. It says something about the Internet that I can’t tell if this is a hoax or not!

For the genuinely adventurous, the book Gastronaut reportedly includes some cannibal recipes. . .

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