Cannibalism
Recipe for Boiled Wife
Using cannibalism to help sell air-conditioning.
Newsweek - May 24, 1965
Dixon Evening Telegraph - May 8, 1970
Smithfield Times - Aug 5, 1970
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 17, 2019 -
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Category: Cannibalism, Advertising
Cannibal Tourism
An entrepreneurial dream shot down by a government official.
Ottawa Journal - June 15, 1973
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 30, 2018 -
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Category: Cannibalism, Food, 1970s
S’mores Story
S'mores Story from Monster Truck Ninja on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 21, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Babies, Cannibalism, Death, Food
Shore Dinner
It's worth clicking through to appreciate the expressions on the people, at larger size.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 07, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Cannibalism, Food, Myths and Fairytales, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #279
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No chipmunks, crickets, rabbits, or fat, slack-jawed, beanie-wearing yokels were actually diced and cooked for these recipes.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 06, 2016 -
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Category: Cannibalism, Food, Cartoons, 1980s
Human Flesh Cure
The 1999 film Ravenous (starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle) is about cannibalism. It's loosely inspired by the stories of the Donner Party and Alferd Packer. But it also includes the idea that eating human flesh can cure any wound or disease.I was reminded of that film when I came across this real-life case, from 1932, of someone trying the human-flesh cure, apparently successfully. But I wonder why the husband fed his wife only a third of his thigh steak? What did he do with the rest? Does eating too much human flesh turn someone into a vampire?
The Des Moines Register - Dec 25, 1932
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 11, 2016 -
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Category: Cannibalism, Medicine, 1930s
How to Cook Husbands
Alas, I wanted this 1898 book to be a tract by an angry feminist cannibal, but it is not--as you can see for yourself, if you go here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 22, 2015 -
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Category: Cannibalism, Feminism, Food, Books, Nineteenth Century
He’ll Just Be Hungry Again In An Hour
An unfortunate Chinese woman who failed to answer her estranged husband's 2am phone call got a surprise visit at work the next day. The husband showed up and in a fit of temper bit her nose off and swallowed it. Due to the tissue being unrecoverable it will be at least 3 months before any reconstructive surgery can be done for her.
Posted By: patty - Thu Sep 10, 2015 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Cannibalism, Husbands, Can’t Possibly Be True, Face and Facial Expressions, Eating
Placenta Smoothies
Unsafe for Revulsion-prone Stomachs.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 22, 2015 -
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Category: Body, Blood, Cannibalism, Eccentrics, Fads, Food
Pro Basketball Player Eaten by Cannibals?
Vanished forever in Africa while visiting Idi Amin. Surname suspiciously close to "brisket." 'Nuff said.
Contemporary account from 1985.
Article from 2007.
Wikipedia.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 16, 2014 -
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Category: Cannibalism, Sports, 1980s, Africa
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