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08 April 2008

Placenta drink for beauty. Now with less placenta stench!→[More:] What the hell, Japan?

post by: rhapsodie at: 12:10 | 16 comments

I would just rather get old and ugly, thanks.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 April | 12:14

OK, so that's pig placenta, but I got a good line on rat placenta if anyone's interested...

No? Huh, how about that.

posted by gaspode 08 April | 12:24

Some of the earthmonkey women here actually cook and eat the placentas that come out of their bodies after the birthing experience.

We just planted ours under the carrot bed.

posted by danf 08 April | 12:51

I know some of the hippies in my hometown eat theirs. That's still gross.

posted by rhapsodie 08 April | 13:26

I had a friend who was invited to partake of the placenta eating. He said they fried it with onions and that it was so good he went back for seconds.

Personally, I wouldn't eat it, but I don't really think it's any grosser than eating part of a cow.

posted by Specklet 08 April | 13:57

Yeah, see, for me the eating of the placenta of your kid is weird mainly because it's the same genetic material as the kid. Which just freaks me out.

posted by gaspode 08 April | 14:09

What the hell, Japan?

Ya know, that's probably not the freakiest consumer product to have come out of Japan.

posted by jason's_planet 08 April | 14:53

I don't really think it's any grosser than eating part of a cow.

Except you're eating a part of yourself and your baby. Or your wife and baby. Just waaay too close to cannibalism for me.

posted by rhapsodie 08 April | 15:02

It's supposed to have tons of protein and nutrients that help the mother gain back her energy. I don't know, I might do it when/if the time comes. Even as a vegetarian.
I think it's closer to eating your boogers than it is to cannibalism.

Then again, I don't eat my boogers. (anymore)

posted by rmless2 08 April | 15:07

Y'all are not making my minestrone any yummier.

posted by bmarkey 08 April | 15:10

[NOT BOOGER-IST]

posted by jason's_planet 08 April | 15:18

I was basically vegetarian for 27 or 28 years, which might help explain where I'm coming from... I think the gross-out factor of this has more to do with the social taboo of cannibalism than it does with the fact that it's just a hunk of vitamin-rich meat.

Not sayin' I would eat it, though.

I think I'll take mine and plant a tree over it or something.

posted by Specklet 08 April | 15:53

If I were a woman, I'd eat my own placenta given the chance. I mean, what a great icebreaker at parties that would be.

posted by cmonkey 08 April | 16:10

Unfortunately, there is no video online of the related "Green Wing" scene.

posted by middleclasstool 08 April | 16:15

I am remembering, but can't find, a blog post of a guy preparing and eating his baby's placenta. He had kept it in the freezer for a while. There were photos. Of the whole process. Of the bloody, slimy mess. It was horrifying, but I couldn't click away.

posted by rhapsodie 08 April | 17:37

I didn't even kiss my newborn babies until they'd been properly de-gooped.

posted by jrossi4r 08 April | 21:48

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