I worked in record stores in the olden days, and got casually familiar with several regulars. One day, a regular customer was buying an album, and I mentioned that some artist had just dropped a new album, if he was interested.

He got very serious, and said "That album is by a man. Do you think I'm gay?"

I was instantly confused, and just asked " What?"

He was getting angry now, and repeated "Do you think I'm gay? Only a gay guy would but an album by a man!"

I had never encountered this attitude before, and I have never encountered it since, but here it was - if a man bought an album by another man, he is gay. I had never noticed that every artist this guy bought was female.

I tried explaining that your musical choices do not reflect your sexuality, but he just yelled at me, called me the F-word a bunch of times, and left, and never returned

I had never cared to think about it before, but after that experience, I came to the conclusion that he was DEFINITELY gay.

Now this is a shower thought.

Hello there, human meat butcher, fetch me a flank of a former league of legends player that died after a diet of nothing but energy drinks and chicken tendies. Nono, this one isn't pale enough. I want only your finest. Bring me muscles that have never been used.

Well, someone was hungry in the shower!

I would happily eat any of y'alls flesh for sustenance. I mean that. ❤️

I am both jealous of and horrified by your brain.

This is so insane and yet true.

What's the quote about virgins from that vampire show? Something like: If you're going to eat a sandwich, wouldn't your prefer if no one had fucked it first?

This seems similar.

"Meat with a first and last name tastes best!" - from Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Not a book for most people, hell sometimes I wish I hadn't read it. But if you want to get into a fiction book on the subject this one is pretty fucked up. It'll probably live rent free in my head for the rest of my life...

A few other quotes that have stuck with me:

After all, since the world began, we've been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we've been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.

I know that when I die somebody’s going to sell my flesh on the black market, one of my awful distant relatives. That’s why I smoke and drink, so I taste bitter and no one gets any pleasure out of my death.

No one can call them humans because that would mean giving them an identity. They call them product, or meat, or food.

They gave human meat the name “special meat.” Instead of just “meat,” now there’s “special tenderloin,” “special cutlets,” “special kidneys."

I'm never showering with you.

White meat and dark meat are already a thing.

I already find it kind of weird when people talk about eating meat, especially 'breasts', but no one else seems to so maybe I'm weird.

There's a show about this. The Promised Neverland. [Redacted] raise children on farms and educate them because apparently, smarter ones taste better, but the taste drops at puberty, so they're given 12 years max before they're "harvested." Saying puberty, it sounds perverse, but there's no perverted element whatsoever to the show. It's just straight up horror.

The show is available (at least) in both English and Japanese. There's a film (on Amazon Prime) that is in Japanese. I'm not sure if it got an English translation. It's better than one might expect. At one point, Amazon was going to make an English version of the film (based on the manga, not based on the existing movie) but it never happened.

Minor spoiler: they don't care about race or gender, only IQ. The smartest ones go to the richest [Redacted], but commoners can typically get the "average" kids. Damn. That sounds Epstein as hell. It really isn't. They're strictly being raised as food, as cattle. (That, in and of itself, is a minor spoiler, but it's revealed in the first episode.)

Not exactly cannibalism but mummia (powdered mummies) was popular in Europe from the 12th to 19th century.

For it to be consistently available in national grocery chains, it would probably have to be industrialized like the current meat industry. That puts a lot of limits on how it could work. For starters, there are a lot of species of animal that people will hunt for food that aren't economical with industrial farming/ranching methods. Their meat is expensive, available minimally in the supply chain and relegated to specialty shops.

So now, we're in a position in which there's a globally massive demand and supply for the meat, just to have commonly at grocery stores. That implies the meat is mostly farm-raised. We're probably looking at a population of around 100 million. Using other aspects of the meat industry as a model, the meat is probably mostly juvenile, female and without a lot of genetic diversity. This analogy is getting uglier by the second, and I don't want to flesh it out any further.

All the other alternatives would make for more expensive, lower quality meat, which consumers don't like. Thankfully, human burgers are probably not on the menu for the foreseeable future, and if they were, it would likely be a short, self-limiting horror show.

An obscenely crude platformer came out a couple years ago called Hell Pie, where you play as a demon chained to a cherub and you go to different "worlds" to get her ingredients to make a pie for Satan's birthday.

One of the levels takes place in and around a giant restaurant that serves all the people of the world (meaning all the NPCs and other characters you've seen throughout the game) and they have a "mystery meat" that's so delicious people can't get enough. One of the side areas in the exterior of the building, is a small caged-in area on a flat metal surface, with tents and fire barrels and a bunch of naked humans who look like they've been in captivity for their entire lives. Like skin-and-bone, bug-eyes, all huddled together and acting like scared animals.

It was one of the few areas in the game that actually kinda fucked me up.

I've told my wife that she has permission to eat me in case of emergency, but she had to promise that she would prepare me correctly.

only women's meat

"Gamer Girl Bathwater" is about to have a dark twist... 👀

(hint: murder)

There’s a prompt for a horror scifi book. Just imagine what it takes to produce that meat, where do you get it from, who gets to become food, and all that. This opens up some very dark and truly dystopian possibilities. If you thought cyberpunk was awful, that was just a warm-up lap. We’re only getting started here.

MeBurgers 😬

(if you know you know, otherwise it's a spoiler)

Not something I wanted to think about on a Saturday. Thanks.

And of course also the gourmet butchers that offer only the finest diversified fed meats!!

https://youtu.be/FeTpzn2MkXU

But prions are a thing. Who knows what would happen otherwise.

99% of animal meat we eat are already female or basically young children otherwise it's too meaty and tough. Same for predator animals, they hunt young animals, that's why wild dogs, pumas, coyotes go for children and you cannot let your child roam without adult supervision in some areas

I'm guessing it's hard to tell what color the skin is once it's cooked, so they'll insist on picking the cut with the skin on, like choosing a lobster out of a tank, and then watching it be prepared to ensure "purity". And, of course, to choose gender, they'd need to see the important bits intact. Also, no tattoos, and as few moles or other imperfections as possible.

This is why our meat sources need to be raised in clean, controlled conditions from birth, you want to know what you're eating. After all, you are what you eat.

(Holy crap, people are fucked up.)