[T.B. Yoits]

Unfortunately people taste more like cattle- red meat.

Cannibals claimed humans taste like pork, hence the Melanesian pidgin term "long pig".

https://www.britannica.com/topic/cannibalism-human-behaviour

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100114139

[fini]

"Cannibals claimed humans taste like pork, hence the Melanesian pidgin term "long pig"."

That makes more sense than what I wrote, because of human diets. I based my opinion on one article from many years ago.