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To: Chickensoup
"Long Pork" was what cannabalistic islanders somewhere called human meat because people supposedly taste like pork.

Sorry for the lack of detail, but I heard this back when I was a kid.

83 posted on 12/01/2006 3:55:38 PM PST by SIDENET (Everybody was kung-fu fighting)
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To: SIDENET
"Long Pork" was what cannabalistic islanders somewhere called human meat because people supposedly taste like pork.

In the South Pacific, by my recollection. I've heard "Polynesian long pig" as another euphemism. They might not have come up with the old favorite "tastes like chicken," because they have a long history of eating pork, but poultry not so much.

Of course, how widespread cannibalism ever was in the South Pacific is an open question; it's a common accusation made against rival tribes, and "natives," who aren't as dumb and "primitive" as we assume, love to play "mess with the anthropologist's head." Margaret Mead's early work has been called somewhat into question because of suspicions that the Samoans were pulling her leg.

93 posted on 12/01/2006 4:09:16 PM PST by ReignOfError
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