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To: eleni121
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?

:-)

51 posted on 02/11/2008 7:44:26 PM PST by TrueKnightGalahad (When you're racing...it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.)
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To: expatpat; TrueKnightGalahad
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.

77 posted on 02/11/2008 8:27:00 PM PST by decal (Sign over DNC headquarters: Please Check Common Sense And Morals At The Door)
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To: TrueKnightGalahad

See my post in 105


106 posted on 02/12/2008 6:48:58 AM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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