Tom Cruise to eat the placenta

[scaeagles]

I read this recently, and apparently it is not as uncommon as I would have thought. For some reason, I decided to google "placenta recipes", not knowing how one would go about eating it. Perhaps I am too sheltered, as I have never, ever heard of doing this.

Warning - this link is beyond disgusting. Do not open it if you have any sort of issues with queasiness. I typically don't, and it pretty much got me. Work safe, but nasty.

You have been warned.

placenta recipes (http://www.twilightheadquarters.com/placenta.html)

Has anyone else heard of this? I am seriously, seriously grossed out by this.

[Gemini Cricket]

Placenta: It's what's for dinner.

[BarTopDancer]

This thread title made me want to yammy.

Note to self: read link before meals.

[Alex]

Well, I know I had heard of it as of 1992 since I can very explicitly recall an increasingly disgusting conversation with some coworkers at the Suzzallo Library Serials Desk after one of us saw something about it in some magazine.

In the animal kingdom it isn't uncommon at all.

[scaeagles]

My mother in laws dog eats its own poop, too, but I'm not planning on starting.

[Freaky Tiki]

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit....


I'm fine now

[SzczerbiakManiac]

That was intensely nasty.
I read the warnings and yet, I clicked the link. Why did I do that....?

[Snowflake]

Gah....that's icky.

I've not clicked the link, I've not had lunch yet!

I like to think I will try anything once, I may need to qualify this now.

[Gemini Cricket]

Can't view it at work. Damn you, SonicWall!
:D

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Placenta Helper?

[Ghoulish Delight]

If you're doing Weight Watchers, you're in luck!

http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/cardscans/eraserheadchicken.jpg

[scaeagles]

I suppose it would also qualify under the Atkins diet.

[Freaky Tiki]

Placenta Helper?

I don't know why they call it placenta Helper....it does just fine on its own!

[Gemini Cricket]

I went to college with a former Miss Placentia.
:D

[tracilicious]

That is beyond odd. Actually, I know several super crunchy moms that saved and ate some placenta. It stops bleeding after giving birth and is loaded with minerals that a new mom is lacking. Supposedly, it helps prevent post partum depression. So, while I might actually hurl up my own intestines if I tried to take a bite of placenta, I get why some strong stomached moms do it. But Tom doing it, is just ridiculous. Unless he's found a miracle of Scientology that allows him to give birth.

[Gemini Cricket]

So, placenta is a super food?

[tracilicious]

So, placenta is a super food?

Hey, combine placenta and breastmilk in a smoothie and you could probably fly!

[Gemini Cricket]

OMG, I thought Leo was kidding about this one. But there are tons of 'Cruise will eat placenta' stories all over Google News. I haven't found any of the mainstream press outlets picking this story up, though. Ewwwww! If anything, Holmes should eat that...

[tracilicious]

Tom must not be getting enough attention right now. Poor sap.

[Alex]

Apparenly the story started with a story in the Daily Mirror and is based on an excerpted quote from a GQ story. According to this item (http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/wireditems/2006/04/is_this_a_hoax.php), Cruise has recently been using the placenta-eating thing as a joke abou the weird things people have been saying about him.

So it could be a case of a joking statement being taken as serious.

[scaeagles]

Well, I'm glad he's joking. Unfortunately, I looked up placenta recipes anyway.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Well, I'm glad he's joking. Unfortunately, I looked up placenta recipes anyway.
No one to blame for that one but yourself.

[scaeagles]

I blame Clinton.

[Gemini Cricket]

I blame Clinton.
I think if Hillary told him to, Bill would have eaten Chelsea's placenta.

[Freaky Tiki]

Hillary is a real ball buster

[Alex]

Hey, don't talk about our next president like that!

[mistyisjafo]

How'd Clinton get into this? Haha

Some cultures think you need to eat the placenta. Personally, I'll pass!!

Tom Cruise needs to STOP going on tv, radio or outdoors. He just keeps coming off like he's a nut job. Hell, I don't even like him as an actor!

[BarTopDancer]

I blame Clinton.

Typical Republician trying to blame the Dems for his actions ;) :p

[Freaky Tiki]

Hey, don't talk about our next president like that!

I'm just saying, that's why she'll make a great president.

[Gemini Cricket]

I mean, if this is all publicity for Mission Impossible III, I'm really gonna puke.
:D

[Freaky Tiki]

its more publicity for GQ, everytime Cruise talks I want to go to MI III less.


I'll still see it for Phillip Seymour Hoffman though.

[Freaky Tiki]

And I'll be rooting for his character too

[scaeagles]

its more publicity for GQ, everytime Cruise talks I want to go to MI III less.

Every time I think of MI II I want to go see MI III less.

[Not Afraid]

Ph the possabilities!

Placenta and Pesto
Placenta Polenta
Seared Placenta and Foie Gras
Organic Baby Greens with Placenta and Maytag Bleu
Placenta Bread Pudding with white chocolate sauce

BARF!

[€uroMeinke]

Do you suppose those Right to Life activists just want to eat some placenta?

[Gemini Cricket]

Sweet and Pungent Placenta?

[Gemini Cricket]

Taco Bell's new Taco Salad in a deep fried placenta bowl. It's placentastic. And it's good to go.
:D

[Snowflake]

Isn't placenta what churros are made of? Deep fried with powdered sugar and cinamon, yum!

[scaeagles]

Perhaps we should start a website of our own placenta recipes just in case Tom is serious.

[Alex]

You know what's weird. I don't find the thought of eating human placenta disgusting. Pointless, yes. More trouble than it is worth. But if some were already cooked up and it were offered to me I don't think I'd have a problem with trying it.

Especially if it were deep fried, coated in cinammon sugar, and sold from a cart in front of Haunted Mansion.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Anyone here ever had chitlins? I would imagine there is very little difference between the two.

[Not Afraid]

Chitlins, sweetbread, churizo, I've eaten it all.

[Alex]

Yeah, I've had them as well. I've also had most of the really disgusting foods like haggis, tomatoes, and natto.

[Gemini Cricket]

I didn't mind haggis at all. Had some in Scotland. Tasted like hash. I also didn't mind blood sausage either. Ate that in Hawai'i. I will not eat balut. I refuse.

[tracilicious]

You know what's weird. I don't find the thought of eating human placenta disgusting. Pointless, yes. More trouble than it is worth. But if some were already cooked up and it were offered to me I don't think I'd have a problem with trying it.

Especially if it were deep fried, coated in cinammon sugar, and sold from a cart in front of Haunted Mansion.


I think you really are supposed to eat it raw. The recipes are just to make it more palatable. Most that I've heard of doing it mix some raw in a smoothie or just cut a little piece off and eat it.

Honestly, though I see that it may have some benefits, I think it's all part of the "crunchier than thou" competition that seems to go on amongst moms that are more into natural living. As if there is some ultimate ideal of eating only organic veggies that you've grown in your garden while simultaneously milking your own goat, breastfeeding an eight year old, and eating a placenta. Oh, not to forget, using cloth instead of toilet paper.

Personally, my earthworm composting is failing miserably and I'm all out of placenta smoothies.

[Alex]

Oh, I know the crunchy woman crowd. My mom made a living for many years on a sub-contract for producing reusable menstrual pads.

But I try to make a policy never to reject anything (foodwise) until I've actually tried it. I can't think of any reason why it would taste gross so if it were presented without any kind of new age spiritual baggage attached I'd probably try it.

[BarTopDancer]

Front page News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060418/ap_on_en_mo/cruise_holmes_baby).

No news whether or not he followed through on it.

[CoasterMatt]

Tastes like chicken.

[tracilicious]

Oh, I know the crunchy woman crowd. My mom made a living for many years on a sub-contract for producing reusable menstrual pads.

But I try to make a policy never to reject anything (foodwise) until I've actually tried it. I can't think of any reason why it would taste gross so if it were presented without any kind of new age spiritual baggage attached I'd probably try it.

Don't get me wrong, I have much love for the crunchy woman crowd, being fairly crunchy when compared to mainstream myself. Most of my mom friends are crunchier than me, and in general I find the crunchy crowd to be concerned about being socially and environmentally responsible, passionate, and patient and gentle with their kids. It's the looks I get when I mention I'm going to Disneyland (how consumerist!) that bug me. Imagine if they knew I'd be using a stroller while there!

I've never been able to bring myself to eat any internal organs, so I would definitely pass on the placenta. And I must admit, I'm always a little happy to find things that are crunchier than I. Placenta eating and cloth toilet paper will forever be beyond the bounds of my crunchyness.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Crunchy placenta

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Oh, and I can't mojo Traci at the moment, but you cracked my sht up. :D

I would suppose "crunchy" comes from granola? Never heard the term before, but I can see what it means.

Traci, I think you're just the right amount of crunchy - not so crunchy that we'd think you're a nutball ;)

[CoasterMatt]

Traci's more of a crisp... :)

[tracilicious]

Oh, and I can't mojo Traci at the moment, but you cracked my sht up. :D

I would suppose "crunchy" comes from granola? Never heard the term before, but I can see what it means.

Traci, I think you're just the right amount of crunchy - not so crunchy that we'd think you're a nutball ;)


Lol, I think it does come from granola. Most of my family thinks I'm a nutball, so at least I can pass as quasi-normal here. :p

Traci's more of a crisp... :)

Heh, if I lose some weight, maybe I can be a thin crisp! ba-dum-bum!

[CoasterMatt]

I think that there's more NORML around here than normal :)

[Not Afraid]

Brooke Shields had her baby today as well. Someone commented over at MC about her history of post-partum depression and all I could think of is "she should eat the placenta". I'm so sad now.

[katiesue]

After reading this whole thread - I feel a bit queasy

[Gn2Dlnd]

Heh, if I lose some weight, maybe I can be a thin crisp! ba-dum-bum!



:D

[Scrooge McSam]

I blame Clinton.

You're not alone (http://www.thefreedomtoast.com/audio/clip_blameo.mp3)


And just in case you were referring to Hillary (http://www.thefreedomtoast.com/audio/clip_senator.mp3)

:D

The above from thefreedomtoast.com (http://www.thefreedomtoast.com/albums.asp)