Chefs say human thigh bones add extra taste to dishes (hold muh femur alert)

Ananova ^ | November 4, 2002 | Ananova

[Damocles]

Chefs say human thigh bones add extra taste to dishes

Some Ecuadorian chefs use human thigh bones to add extra taste to their dishes and attract customers, according to an investigation by a local newspaper.

Newspaper Extra has sparked a scandal by interviewing restaurant and café owners who admit to cooking with bones taken from cemeteries.

Chef Carlos Acosta has told Extra he has cooked with the leg bones, known as femurs, for 40 years and that many of his colleagues do the same.

He said the best way was to leave a femur in a soup or stew for half an hour. "Just before serving it, it's good to put the bone back in briefly to give it a final touch," he said.

Mr Acosta says the femur adds a special taste to food and has brought him lots of customers. He says the same bone could be used for months if it is kept properly.

The Ecuadorian authorities have pledged to investigate the practice. A woman from the capital Quito has recently been charged with using human bones in her restaurant.

 

Story filed: 07:25 Monday 4th November 2002

[Damocles]

(hold muh femur alert)

This ought to make a great pot o' soup.

Yummmmm!

[Dallas]

You're pulling our leg, right ?

[wideawake]

It's good to know that 500 years after Cortez and Columbus, the natives still haven't lost their taste for human flesh.

[martin_fierro]

Acosta makes no bones about being a cannibal. <|:)~

[billorites]

Doesn't sound Kosher.

[3AngelaD]

Next: Ecuadoran immigrants petition U.S. Supreme Court for right to include human femurs in ethnic recipes. Think I'm exagerating? Several years ago the Supreme Court ruled that Haitian immigrants in Florida who practice a pagan "religion" called Santeria have a Constitutional right to ritually sacrific animals in public because to forbid this would be violating their right to exercise their religion. Litter in that part of the world (north of Miami Beach) now routinely includes chicken heads, other animal parts. Similar findings discovered in a park in Fort Worth, Texas. U.S.-into-Third World conversion alert.

[Leisler]

I'm going to hoof right down there.....

[robertpaulsen]

We need to put our foot down! On second thought ....

[Consort]

The foot bone connected to the leg bone, The leg bone connected to the knee bone, The knee bone connected to the thigh bone, The thigh bone connected to the back bone, The back bone connected to the neck bone, The neck bone connected to the head bone, Oh, hear the word of the Lord! Dem bones, dem bones dem dry bones Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones Oh, hear the word of the Lord!