Re: Taste of Human Flesh

Michael K Lerch (lerchm@watserv.ucr.edu)
3 Jan 1995 03:19:15 GMT

Owen Lynn (lynn@mainstream.physics.auburn.edu) wrote:
: Michael K Lerch <lerchm@watserv.ucr.edu> wrote:
: >Richard Spear (rspear@primenet.com) wrote:
: >: cultxpt@primenet.com (Jeff Jacobsen) writes:
: >: >beckermab@aspen.uml.edu wrote:
: >
: >: > They ate a drunk in "Fried Green Tomatoes" and the sheriff thought it
: >: >was the best ribs he'd ever had. They ate their fellow passengers in
: >: >that one movie about the crash in the Andes. I don't remember if they
: >: >said what it tasted like.
: >
: >: ... and an entire restaurant was run on human flesh in "Eat The Rich" (an
: >: entertaining movie) *and* let's not forget "Sweeney (sp?) Todd, where people
: >: tasted like meat pies.
: >
: >And let us not forget the classic movie "Eating Rauol" (although I don't
: >recall that taste was ever mentioned--it's been a while).

: Isn't there some university cafeteria out west somewhere that they
: named after some pioneer cannibal who ate his friends to make it over
: the Rocky Mountains?

: Somewhere in Colorado, I think? Or was it Idaho?

Wouldn't surprise me a bit, but I don't know of it. How about: Donner
Cafe, in Truckee...

Mike