WikiBooks: Cooked Placenta, a tasty dish that the whole family will love Options

[Killiondude]

Cookbook:Placenta with Broccoli

This is a tasty dish that the whole family will love.

Discuss.

There's also grilled dog, horse recipes, and marijuana recipes for your reading pleasure.

This post has been edited by Killiondude: Tue 31st August 2010, 6:41am

[Subtle Bee]

Cookbook:Placenta with Broccoli

This is a tasty dish that the whole family will love.

Discuss.

Yeah, good luck getting kids to eat broccoli.

[Somey]

This is a tasty dish that the whole family will love.

Discuss.

I guess they might love it if they didn't know what was in it?

I think the photo is a fake, personally. That's probably just ordinary stew-meat... Anyway, the author, one User:AlbertCahalan, chose not to list this article and its companion piece, Spicy Australian Placenta, on his user page. Why not, I wonder?

Apparently an AnonIP tried to list this for deletion back in 2006, but was rebuffed, apparently for not registering a user account.

Oops, I see it now - they'd discussed it previously. (Also, there's this.)

Cookbook:Placenta includes a link to Cookbook:Human because it is an obvious link to make. (at the time, Cookbook:Human was deleted) When it came time to make the link, my thoughts were "damn, there's some sort of controvery over that, perhaps I ought to investigate before filling in the entry for human". So, while I was aware of some sort of controversy, I knew little of the nature of the controversy...

Uh-huh.

[EricBarbour]

Just as bg info: in the past few years there's been a big, deeply bizarre fondness in the mommyhood world for doing strange things with placentas. Eating them is just a minor addendum.

[Moulton]

Next thing you know, there will be Cookbook:Eucharist.

What is it with all this cannibalism, real, parodic, and symbolic?

[A Horse With No Name]

There's also grilled dog, horse recipes, and marijuana recipes for your reading pleasure.

One of those choices is definitely not my pleasure, bub!

[Cyclopia]

There's also grilled dog, horse recipes, and marijuana recipes for your reading pleasure.

In Southern Europe, eating horse meat is absolutely common and not frowned upon. There is a specialized horse butchery shop in every Italian city. I personally like it.

[thekohser]

Cookbook:Placenta with Broccoli

This is a tasty dish that the whole family will love.

Discuss.

There's also grilled dog, horse recipes, and marijuana recipes for your reading pleasure.

The whole family? What about the newborn infant? I think little baby should just stay on the mother's milk or formula.

See, this is why I have to be allowed on to Wikibooks. How can they keep me out of this fun?!

[Moulton]

This is a tasty dish that the whole family will love. It might go well served with rice, especially if the rice is loose and firm.

Rice?!? Rice?I?

I can see serving a dish like Fox 'n' Rice, but everyone knows that you serve Placenta with Polenta.

Sheesh.

[Somey]

In Southern Europe, eating horse meat is absolutely common and not frowned upon. There is a specialized horse butchery shop in every Italian city...

But that only makes it more barbaric, no...?

I personally like it.

Well, we already know you're a bad person...

[Abd]

As a midwife, we ended up with lots of these. For my own kids, the placentas were buried in the back yard under a rose bush. Those roses were spectacular! Some people did, indeed, eat them. I never tasted it, I wasn't invited to any of these meals.

It's part of the baby, not of the mom.

There could now be reasons to preserve these in some way, perhaps cryogenically, for the stem cells. But I liked that teddy bear that someone made. After all, the baby slept next to that placenta, a part of himself or herself, for nine months....

[thekohser]

...the placentas...

It's part of the baby, not of the mom.

I hate to call you on your biology mistake, Abd, but I have it on good authority that even a 10-year-old should know that "the special organ of the placenta is formed during pregnancy and is shared between mother and child".

[Ottava]

Hippies eat babies, so why is it surprising that Yuppies would eat placenta?

[Somey]

Hippies eat babies, so why is it surprising that Yuppies would eat placenta?

How do you know they're Yuppies?

[jayvdb]

Cookbook:Placenta with Broccoli

This is a tasty dish that the whole family will love.

Discuss.

There's also grilled dog, horse recipes, and marijuana recipes for your reading pleasure.

Cripes. or, umm, crepes. The Wikipedia article Placentophagy is terrible.

Consumption of uncooked human placenta carries risks associated with other human blood products, primarily risk of hepatitis B,C and HIV infection. However, eating one's own placenta does not carry those risks.

Ignoring the 'ownership' aspect, obviously if mom's blood already has a blood infection, the 'risk' of catching that same blood infection is pretty low. Still, ingesting a big blob of it is probably not going to help either.

[Ottava]

Hippies eat babies, so why is it surprising that Yuppies would eat placenta?

How do you know they're Yuppies?

Who else would make an online cookbook on Wikibooks? The WMF skews to technology oriented people with a left of center political view and a general out of touchness with reality. Isn't that what Yuppies were?

[Moulton]

Next thing you know they'll be publishing recipes for cooking the cookbooks.

"This is a cookbook. Take and eat."

[Adrignola]

The Cookbook on Wikibooks is not my favorite portion of the project. It really stretches the limits of Wikibooks' scope. However, it constitutes 10% of the total content pages in the project and is pretty entrenched. It might be surprising to some that the Wikimedia Foundation has such a large collection of recipes and cooking techniques.

[Somey]

Who else would make an online cookbook on Wikibooks? The WMF skews to technology oriented people with a left of center political view and a general out of touchness with reality. Isn't that what Yuppies were?

Well, Yuppies still exist, at least in the literal sense. But as for the rest, to say they are (or were) "technology-oriented" is probably an overgeneralization; they were only interested in technology as a means of making more money, not to make the world a better place. Politically speaking, the idea was that these were people who had been left-leaning until reaching their mid-20's and finding high-paying jobs, at which point they all-too-quickly abandoned their previous "liberal idealism" in favor of a neo-conservative agenda. This, in turn, became the primary point of criticism - that because they were easily converted, their liberalism was "shallow," and therefore all liberalism must be "shallow."

I guess what I'm saying is that while most people who eat placenta are probably Yuppies (or whatever the term is for an "urban professional" who is no longer young - I believe "the Viagra Generation" is a popular one these days) - it's unfair to say that most Yuppies would consider eating someone's placenta. If there were some money in it for them though, things would be different, with pregnant women being asked to sign "vendor contracts" as meat suppliers, McDonald's serving "McAfterbirth" in nice neat styrofoam containers with an ice-cold Coke™ for just $3.99, etc., etc.

Personally I think the whole idea is disgusting, but having seen an episode or two of "Happy Tree Friends," it's almost like there's no point in pretending that society still has any sort of gross-out limits whatsoever.

[Abd]

...the placentas...It's part of the baby, not of the mom.

I hate to call you on your biology mistake, Abd, but I have it on good authority that even a 10-year-old should know that "the special organ of the placenta is formed during pregnancy and is shared between mother and child".

Not a biology mistake, Greg. Just a different interpretation of what "shared" means, and what I meant by "part of the baby."

From that paragon of accuracy, Wikpedia, Placenta, The placenta develops from the same sperm and egg cells that form the fetus, and functions as a fetomaternal organ with two components, the fetal part (Chorion frondosum), and the maternal part (Decidua basalis).
That is, the placenta grows from the fertilized egg, and is specialized to extract nutrients from the mother's blood, through attaching and growing into the uterine wall, like some symbiotic leech. It is very much a part of the baby.

The Placentophagy article does leave something to be desired, eh? I think the argument presented, though, isn't a bad one.... it just doesn't belong, stated the way it is, in a Wikipedia article. But what do you do when there is a reliable source that says something really stupid? I sympathize.

I find it odd that some here imagine that people who might eat the placenta are "out of touch with reality." Human birth and placentas are definitely real. How many here have actually touched a placenta? And do these who have not think they are somehow more in touch with "reality" because of this. I'd say the opposite. Birth, for most people, is hidden away, sometimes even more than death.

I handled over about thirty placentas myself. But didn't eat them. All but four were not mine ("ours") to eat. Would I do so if invited? Probably. Yuppie, folks, I am definitely not. Kooky, okay, SB_Johnny seems to think so. I'd definitely rather be "kooky" than "normal." What's a "normal" Wikipedia editor like?