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.

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.

Now this is a shower thought.

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.

There'd also be people who refuse to eat human meat and everyone else would make fun of them.

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.

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

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.

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

I don't love the second half of this post, it seems like bait to bring out the worst in people, but so far all of the comments seem to be keeping things civil and avoiding the bait.

Thanks all.

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.)

Sounds perfect for a pie shop.

Menu:

• Priest
• Greengrocer
• General (served with and without his privates)
• Piccolo player
• Locksmith

Coming soon:

• Beadle
• Judge

White meat and dark meat are already a thing.

"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."