One Man's Meat, Another's Pork Rinds [Interview with Chriss

[David Casseres]

[davemarc sez]

>At 02:19 PM 10/23/96 -0700, Chrissie wrote:
>[snip]
>>
>>He doesn't 
>>believe in eating pigs either. He thinks pork tastes like human flesh
>>and it would be cannibalism to eat pork. 
>> 
>Ummmm...what enabled him to conclude that pork tastes like human flesh?

It's a cliche about the taste of human flesh that it tastes like pork.  
It probably comes from the South Pacific, where cannibals are said to 
have called human flesh "long pig."

Cheers,
David