[TrueKnightGalahad]

SPAM comes nearest to tasting like human flesh—an islander pasttime in years past.

Dare one ask how you know that the taste of spam resembles haunch'o'human...and if that knowledge comes from personal experience?

:-)

[decal]

From The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux:

"It was a theory of mine that former cannibals of Oceania now feasted on Spam because Spam came the nearest to approximating the porky taste of human flesh. "Long Pig" as they called a cooked human being in much of Melanesia. It was a fact that the people-eaters of the Pacific had all evolved, or perhaps degenerated, into Spam-eaters. And in the absence of Spam they settled for corned beef, which also had a corpsy flavor."

As quoted by Oliver Sacks in his book The Island of the Colorblind.

I should also note that Dr Sacks is a bit sceptical about this.

[eleni121]

See my post in 105