It’s not like pork. That misunderstanding about the taste of human
flesh is attributable to one of those linguistic mix-ups between
explorers and locals: Apparently Pacific Islanders called human meat
“long pig” because wild pig was the only other large animal whose meat
they ate. According to Carole Travis-Henikoff’s “Dinner With a
Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind’s Oldest Taboo” (Santa Monica
Press, 333 pages, $24.95), humans taste more like beef, only better. At
least for some folks, she writes, the meat of people is the best
they’ve ever had… New York Sun.
