Posted on 04/10/2009 8:11:10 AM PDT by Pinkbell
We thought we'd heard some wild diet tips floating around health-obsessed Hollywood. But this takes the cake.
According to MomLogic.com, a woman named Chrissy Schilling had her first baby over the weekend.
And she and her sister celebrated by cooking and serving up the placenta.
They put it on pasta and into a panini sandwich and posted some photos of the meals on a Facebook page .
According to Chrissy's sister Kathy Schilling's recommendations and recipe, the placenta -- full of lingering blood, vitamins, hormones -- is nourishing for the baby during pregnancy, but the nutrients are also good for moms after the birth.
To hear more about how she prepared the placenta dishes, keep reading.
But before you get really grossed out, you should know that animals eat their placentas after giving birth. And humans are, after all is said and done, just animals. And it's supposed to be pretty common in some other cultures, although they probably don't post photos on Facebook.
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Kathy writes, "When I cooked it, I cleaned the surface blood off of it but kept anything that seaped out of it into the sauce. I know I was feeling pretty giddy while eating, so maybe that was some of the happy hormones effects taking place. The 'recipe' was pretty simple, but preparation was very fun!"
New mom Chrissy says: "The placenta is such an amazing organ in all its done for my baby that it didn't seem right to simply throw it away. My thought was 'being the only organ that the human body makes that naturally exits the body, why not take advantage of it?' "
See more placenta dishes here.
Woo-hoo! Pass the placenta!
What do you think? Are you gonna chow down on your baby's placenta?
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Dogs also eat their own poop.
Why don’t they eat aborted babies as well. It’s just tissue, right?
dogs will eat their own vomit as well.........
Anyway, here is the script:
Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner were to play two pregnant women who run into each other at their college reunion.
Laraine: “By the way, are you planning to eat the placenta?”
Gilda: “You’re kidding! You mean the afterbirth?”
Laraine: “That’s right. Many mammals eat their own placenta. It’s nutritious, it’s 100 percent natural, and now that you’re going to have a family, you’ve got to watch your food budget more than ever. And there’s no cheaper meat than placenta.”
Gilda: But is there enough placenta to make a complete meal for my husband and myself?
Laraine: Not if your husband has a hearty appetite like mine. And that’s why you need Placenta Helper.
Gilda: Placenta Helper?
Laraine: That’s right. Placenta Helper lets you stretch your placenta into a tasty casserole. [Holds up a box of Placenta Helper.] Like Placenta Romanoff—a zesty blend of cheeses makes for the zingy sauce that Russian czars commanded at palace feasts. Or Placenta Oriental. An exotic mixture of oriental vegetables and exotic herbs and spices creates an exotic meal. Look, you can have placenta only once every nine months. Why not make a rare occasion, a rare occasion?
[CUT TO: Gilda’s kitchen. John Belushi, as her husband, has just finished his placenta casserole.]
John: Ummm. That was great. Let’s have Placenta Helper every night.
Gilda: Oh, honey!
She’s really a kitty cat. She’s got the same juju the Nigerian guy does. He turned himself into a goat to avoid capture after bank robberies. The Nigerian cops were on to his tricks though.
He's all gone. She ate him.
In many human cultures, mothers do (or did) eat the placenta.
With fava beans and a nice chianti?
LOL! I remember reading that story.
If we're going down that road, she could take advantage of the bounty that is her body -- polyps, her appendix, old teeth (crunchy!), possibly her own brain . . .
On a side note, the photo at the link is the most disgusting picture I've ever seen in my life.
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