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In a local newspaper, the photographer Jago Corazza says that the cannibals of Papua New Guinea prefer Japanese human meat.

Together with anthropologist Olga Ammann, he visited the last cannibal tribes deep down in the jungle of Papua New Guinea.

Those cannibals said “We don’t like meat from white people, it’s smells too strong and it’s too salty, we prefer Japanese human flesh. Only the meat of our own women is better”

While cannibalism is outlawed since 50 years, there’s evidence that some tribes never stopped eating humans. The fact that the Kuru disease is doing an outbreak from time to time is showing this.


http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-en...too-salty.html

Hmmm....

I'll get back to you on this.

In a local newspaper, the photographer Jago Corazza says that the cannibals of Papua New Guinea prefer Japanese human meat.

Together with anthropologist Olga Ammann, he visited the last cannibal tribes deep down in the jungle of Papua New Guinea.

Those cannibals said “We don’t like meat from white people, it’s smells too strong and it’s too salty, we prefer Japanese human flesh. Only the meat of our own women is better”

While cannibalism is outlawed since 50 years, there’s evidence that some tribes never stopped eating humans. The fact that the Kuru disease is doing an outbreak from time to time is showing this.


Sorry, didn’t found an international link.

Less hair to remove, I presume.

(Apparently its the women most likely to eat you, as men control the supply of meat. I didn't find that suprising, for some reason....)

The Chinese tasted okay too, but half an hour after eating one....I'll get my coat.

Italians are loaded with anti-oxidants. *nod*

Eat you Greenlanders children or you won't grow up big and strong...

What is better, a "cotoletta alla milanese di Milanese", or a "Wiener-Wienerschnitzel"?

It's all down to Japan's densely populated cities. They are the human version of veal calves.

I believe it's important to protect our climate and our rainforests, that's why i only eat butchers prime cuts of free range Englishmen, and while i'm eating them i say;
"Be he alive or be he dead, i'll grind his bones to make my bread".
muhuhuhuahahahhauahuhauahauhhhuuuahahhhhahahahaaaaaaaaha...ha

Mashed Swedes are quite nice

Found a link: http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2008/12/12/cannibals-in-papua-new-guinea/japanese-taste-best-whites-are-too-salty.html

I would chalk it up to diet, largely. But then, how many tourists really go missing that deep in the Indonesian jungle?

racists... the outrage I say!!

Mashed Swedes are quite nice

care for some Irish stew?

How did the photgrapher survive....?

How did the photgrapher survive....?

He was salty and smelled too strong?

I bet that has to do with the Japanese diet, much rice and fish.

I wonder, however, how many Japanese went missing to establish such a trend?!?

Anyway, I'm definitely too salty - don't really know about the smell, though.

IIRC it may be beacause in the second world war the British encouraged the tribes to fight the Japanese.

IIRC it may be beacause in the second world war the British encouraged the tribes to fight the Japanese.

And they took cuisine tips from the Brits? Oh my.

What's their opinion on the Finnish?

What's their opinion on the Finnish?They probably haven't gotten to sample any. Are you volunteering?

And they took cuisine tips from the Brits? Oh my.

Any nationality are tasty if you put enough tomato ketchup on them

The Chinese tasted okay too, but half an hour after eating one....I'll get my coat.

Damnit, someone beat me to it. I have to say, that's the first thing that popped into my head after reading the title of the post, much less the article.

I wonder if i could open a cannibal restaraunt there, offer some foriegn cuisine.

How about a Spanish omellete? (egg, onion, tomatoe, Spaniard, with garnish de Nanatsu)
Maybe a German sausage is more your style? (well your guess is as good as mine)
French Fries? (Chopped up Frenchmen dipped in a deep fat fryer)
A full English breakfast maybe? (One cooked Englishman, some potatoe and maybe some beans)
A Greek salad? (Greekman and lettuce)

How did the photgrapher survive....?

Cannibal tribes tend to avoid killing people to eat them. It's bad press.

Cannibal tribes tend to avoid killing people to eat them. It's bad press.

groans...

I wonder if i could open a cannibal restaraunt there, offer some foriegn cuisine.

How about a Spanish omellete? (egg, onion, tomatoe, Spaniard, with garnish de Nanatsu)
Maybe a German sausage is more your style? (well your guess is as good as mine)
French Fries? (Chopped up Frenchmen dipped in a deep fat fryer)
A full English breakfast maybe? (One cooked Englishman, some potatoe and maybe some beans)
A Greek salad? (Greekman and lettuce)

Maybe Western Mercenary Union would volunteer to be served with cranberries?

I wonder if i could open a cannibal restaraunt there, offer some foriegn cuisine.

How about a Spanish omellete? (egg, onion, tomatoe, Spaniard, with garnish de Nanatsu)
Maybe a German sausage is more your style? (well your guess is as good as mine)
French Fries? (Chopped up Frenchmen dipped in a deep fat fryer)
A full English breakfast maybe? (One cooked Englishman, some potatoe and maybe some beans)
A Greek salad? (Greekman and lettuce)

...and a Swiss Roll for pudding

I find Andorrans can be rather exquisite. The melding of French and Iberian produces a fine dish.

They're somewhat rare, though.

Found a link: http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2008/12/12/cannibals-in-papua-new-guinea/japanese-taste-best-whites-are-too-salty.html

I would chalk it up to diet, largely. But then, how many tourists really go missing that deep in the Indonesian jungle?

Thanks I'll include it in the start message

How did the photgrapher survive....?

The trick is to eat as much red beans as possible before you enter the jungle.

How about a Spanish omellete? (egg, onion, tomatoe, Spaniard, with garnish de Nanatsu)

No! There will be no serving of Nanatsu here!

...not until the supply of substitutes is stable, anyways.

Found a link: http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2008/12/12/cannibals-in-papua-new-guinea/japanese-taste-best-whites-are-too-salty.html

I would chalk it up to diet, largely. But then, how many tourists really go missing that deep in the Indonesian jungle?

Pedantic point the first:

Papua New Guinea isn't part of Indonesia; it's an independent nation state. The western half of New Guinea, otherwise known as Irian Jaya, is part of Indonesia. While the artificial nature of the border between the two (except for a short stretch along the Fly River) almost certainly means that many local cultural groups cross the border, the story is set in PNG, not Indonesia.


Pedantic point the second:

While agreeing that the preference for Japanese may be down to the Japanese diet, I doubt this has anything to do with tourists. What's now PNG was a major WWII battleground between the Japanese and the Allies, where the Australians in particularly were assisted by local guides still known in Oz - slightly appallingly - as 'fuzzy wuzzy angels'.

Therefore, there was a ready supply within living memory of both Japanese long pig and white long pig.

French Fries? (Chopped up Frenchmen dipped in a deep fat fryer)

Should be a Belgian. :p

Ah, PNG... It still seems to stir the imagination of the West, with wild tales of "lost tribes" and stone age peoples. From time to time, bizarre stories emanate from the New Guinean Highlands and are eagerly spread around by the international media, until it's discovered a few days later that they were fake.

A few months ago, a woman claimed that people with HIV were being buried alive in a remote part of PNG. Western media snapped up the horror story... which soon turned out to be false.

Then, a few weeks ago, there was an even wilder story about women in remote parts of the Highlands killing every male child they gave birth to. Several media (including, unsurprisingly, Fox News) reported it as fact. Within a few days, that too turned out to be a fabrication.


While cannibalism is outlawed since 50 years, there’s evidence that some tribes never stopped eating humans.

The way you phrase that is slightly misleading. To my knowledge, nobody claims that cannibalistic killings persist in PNG. Some occasional doubts are raised regarding small parts of Irian Jaya, but that's across the border; it has nothing to do with PNG. The only cases of cannibalism thought to persist in PNG involve eating parts of people who are already dead (i.e., who were not killed for that purpose) - for instance, in some communities where it was/is customary to eat flesh from your mother or father upon their death. Nor has this ever been a universal or even widespread practice; PNG has tremendous cultural diversity.

PNG has continued to attract fascination and strange stories because parts of it remain essentially outside the effective control of the State. There are areas beyond (or almost beyond) the reach of the police, the judiciary, the formal education system, and so on. Our "modern" societies tend to be fascinated by any hint of modern-day "primitives". (Which is why I'm surprised, incidentally, that the Sentinelese aren't world-famous.) We hear a lot more about "horror stories" from the Highlands than about raskol violence in Port Moresby, simply because Western audiences aren't interested in the urban, modern Papua New Guinea. They want exoticism.

If some people remember what the Japanese taste like, they're remembering it from the Japanese invasion during the Second World War. PNG was a battleground; remember the Kokoda Trail? And cannibalism in that instance may well have been motivated by starvation, rather than some indigenous custom automatically assumed in the West. The Japanese raided villages for food, creating consternation and fury among Papua New Guineans by killing pigs. (Pigs are a measure of individual and collective wealth and prestige, as well as a food source.) Heck, there were reports of starved Japanese soldiers resorting to cannibalism in PNG, so it would be no great surprise if some Papua New Guineans ate Japanese soldiers too.

If you were to go wandering into the New Guinean Highlands, I can assure you that you wouldn't get eaten.

You might still get killed, though.

And they took cuisine tips from the Brits? Oh my.

Nah, they just did what they always did with defeated enemies. When you eat your vanquished foes, you inherit their strength.

Nah, they just did what they always did with defeated enemies. When you eat your vanquished foes, you inherit their strength.

No, no, no. That's not a universal belief. Any generalisation about Papua New Guinean societies is almost always incorrect, due to their great diversity. Generalising about the rationale of cannibalism in human societies in general is even more likely to be incorrect.

In Papua New Guinea itself, causes for cannibalism in pre-Christian days varied between different societies.

I would have to check, but from memory I can't recall any references to that particular belief in PNG. It may have slipped my mind... or it may never have occurred there.

This practice is outlawed (for good reason), yet its still going on? Disgusting.

No doubt I will now be jumped by a bunch of PC twats explaining how eating people is part of their culture and must be respected.:(

Well, having tried both American and Japanese, I have to agree. I prefer Japanese. :p

This practice is outlawed (for good reason), yet its still going on? Disgusting.

No doubt I will now be jumped by a bunch of PC twats explaining how eating people is part of their culture and must be respected.:(
:rolleyes:

groans...

I don't see a pun there.

If you were to go wandering into the New Guinean Highlands, I can assure you that you wouldn't get eaten.

You might still get killed, though.

I think their chances of getting killed would be considerably higher in Port Moresby:

In 2004, Port Moresby was ranked the worst capital city in the world to live in the Economist Intelligence Unit's ranking of 130 of the world's capital cities. High levels of rape, robbery and murder and large areas of the city controlled by gangs of thugs, known locally as "rascals" (Tok Pisin raskol), were cited. According to a 2004 article in the Guardian newspaper, unemployment rates are estimated to be between 60 and 90% and murder rates three times that of Moscow and 23 times the rate in London.

The Highlands may be the standard setting for stories of PNG exotica, but the capital's the place to be for danger. Most tourists fly in to Moresby, get out as quickly as possible, and have a lovely time in the safe interior (as you probably know, but worth stating here for those who might not).

I would have to check, but from memory I can't recall any references to that particular belief in PNG. It may have slipped my mind... or it may never have occurred there.
I've never come across it in reference to Papua New Guinea. In fact, I recall reading that several of the cannibal tribes would not eat the bodies of their enemies.

Well, having tried both American and Japanese, I have to agree. I prefer Japanese. :p


:rolleyes:

Care to at least try to post something of substance?

Care to at least try to post something of substance?
Fine, how about while I don't think you'll find any takers for your obvious attempt at trolling, you might get a reminder to read the thread given that, oh, four posts or so above yours the whole notion of current practices of cannibalism in PNG was debunked.

Fine, how about while I don't think you'll find any takers for your obvious attempt at trolling, you might get a reminder to read the thread given that, oh, four posts or so above yours the whole notion of current practices of cannibalism in PNG was debunked.

I'm not trolling at all. Though if you feel that way your free to run crying to the mods and see how far you get. Perhaps you'd find that easier than posting something of substance.:rolleyes:

I no doubt missed some posts, and if I was too quick to post, I'm sorry. However, its an understandable mistake, given that the whole point of the thread is what the prefered type of people to eat happens to be in this place. Note also that the OP gave a source, which I do not believe the post you are citing did. Finally, to my knowledge that post only refuted the claim of modern caniballism in that particular area, and only in the form of killing people in order to eat them. Indeed it acknowledged that people might still be eaten after death.

In short, you either failed to read it yourself, or you are being blatently dishonest.

I think their chances of getting killed would be considerably higher in Port Moresby.
Also much higher chance to get communicable disease. Problems like HIV are passed into the interior through mining/logging routes.