Very old recipes

[Historian]

Here's the story. My wife just got back from Berkeley where she helped a friend give birth

 
Does this surprise anyone?
 

A few days later, while I indulged in resting and bonding with baby Aaron, my husband suggested that we get "it" out of the refrigerator.

 
I wonder if they they would have done this 8?  10? 12? times?  Or was it just one of those "I was there" things?

[AdoramusTeChriste]

The first time I ate placenta was after a very powerful birthing.

 
LOL. What birth isn't "powerful?" Does that make this placenta better? Ugh!
 
I had 4 homebirths and I never once had the urge to eat the afterbirth like a mama cat! Gross! One of my midwives had tried it - she said it tasted like heart.
 
 
 

[Historian]

 
Oh man, that seriously nauseates me. Gotta be the most disgusting thing I've ever read. I love my cats to death, but they are both heathens. I'd never think of "imitating" them in that respect.

[VoxClamantis]

The first time I ate placenta was after a very powerful birthing.

 
LOL. What birth isn't "powerful?" Does that make this placenta better? Ugh!

 
Well, of COURSE it does! The "womyn-meat" is a magickal, mysterious thing that just screams out to the goddess in every womyn, and the more powerful the birthing (one must never say just "birth"; it's not witchy enough!), the more powerful the womyn-flesh! Think of how it was described by the dear sister-womyn in the article! "This meat still felt very much alive to me as I began to slice it and saute it in garlic and oil" ... "The serenity in the meat enveloped me as it cooked, and I recalled the birthing." SIGH and SWOON! The sacred sacrificial womyn-womb-meat gave life for nine months and begs to give life once more -- preferably to Berkely vegetarians! I want to rub the placenta all over my body as I romp, sky-clad, in my backyard under a full Harvest Moon! I want to sing and leap and express my wolf-womyn-magick-crone-circle-spirit by wearing a purple, placenta-shaped hat! Solidarity! O, blessed be, blessed be!
 

I had 4 homebirths and I never once had the urge to eat the afterbirth like a mama cat! Gross! One of my midwives had tried it - she said it tasted like heart.

 
The womyn-womb IS the heart of the womyn, so the similarity in taste is no surprise! No surprise at all! The woooooooooomb is the secret chamber that cries monthly with a sacred issue that one can use to make beautiful artwork! The womb is genius, life and beauty! It is truth! Just be sure to use a lot of pepper.

[VoxClamantis]

 
Oh man, that seriously nauseates me. Gotta be the most disgusting thing I've ever read. I love my cats to death, but they are both heathens. I'd never think of "imitating" them in that respect.

Eric! I thought we'd determined that cats are Catholic!
 
At any rate, there are a lot of things cats do that I wouldn't dream of imitating. I'm not sure which of those awful things I'd put first, but placenta-eating and public bathing both rank high.

[AdoramusTeChriste]

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LOL!!! And barf!!!

[Historian]

This is by no means as putrid as everything else that has been posted, but I thought it would be helpful to revive an old favorite. Presenting: the watch-the-guests-start-retching cake, the watch-the-looks-of-horror cake, the one, the only.... KITTY LITTER CAKE!
 

 
 

[KyrieEleison]

Doesn't look that bad. Actually that looks good. Hey, Leon what is the one from Espana with? Are those peppers,paprika?

 
The Portuguese version looks tastier than all the rest, no?
I'm gonna go puke now....

[VoxClamantis]

This is by no means as putrid as everything else that has been posted, but I thought it would be helpful to revive an old favorite. Presenting: the watch-the-guests-start-retching cake, the watch-the-looks-of-horror cake, the tne, the only.... KITTY LITTER CAKE!
 
 

It's baaaa-aack! What a frightening -- and hilarious -- blast from the past! LOL LOL

[historienne]

Eating placenta!  What a clever little loophole for the satisfaction of strange, carnal urges!   Only serial killers and Berkeley vegetarians have human flesh boiling on the stove.