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| Yummy : Cruise 'will eat baby's placenta' |
| 2006-04-18 |
| Now, I know why people look up at Hollywood Stars(tm) for wisdom. Actor Tom Cruise has said he plans to eat the placenta of his new baby. "I thought that would be good," he told GQ magazine. "Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there." It is the latest in a series of unusual revelations by the 43-year-old about the child he is expecting with his fiancee, actress Katie Holmes. The couple, who have been engaged since June 2005, plan to marry in late summer or early autumn, according to Cruise. The Mission Impossible star has also claimed he knew Holmes, 27, was pregnant even before she told him. "Come out of the closet, Tom Cruise!"/South Park Last week Cruise said on US television that Catholic-born Holmes has already joined him as a follower of the Church of Scientology. In the GQ interview, Cruise defended the religion's doctrine that childbirth should be completed in silence. "It's really about respecting the woman," he said. "It's not about her not screaming." Cruise said earlier this month that their baby was due "any day now". The baby will be the first for Holmes, while Cruise has two adopted children from his marriage to Nicole Kidman. "Come out of the closet, Tom Cruise!"/South Park |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #42 This man NEEDS meds. Or killed. Either way works for me. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-04-18 10:11 |
| #41 What a weak prick. Eating Placentas is so old hat. To really raise an eyebrow you gotta whip out your prong and start masturabting with it just after the birth. |
| Posted by: GizzardPuke 2006-04-18 19:05 |
| #40 Please tell me this is a joke/satire, at least from SCRAPPLEFACE? Iff true, as one of Hillarist Amerika's Milyuhns and Zigluhns of alleged Male Brute Rightist Conservatives , even Billary's Soviet Waffen SS, of the Global Stalinist Republican Federalist Socialist Dominion Empire of the Commonwealth of the Union of the Confederacy ...., must say "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE UUUUUUUWWWWWWWWWWWW, YUCK"! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-04-18 20:56 |
| #39 Not that it makes him any more sane, but I believe he was joking. Captain America: Is there special seasoning involved? I remember an old SNL skit for Placenta Helper. |
| Posted by: Urako 2006-04-18 20:55 |
| #38 Questions: Is the placenta more desireable after a full-term or premature? Is there special seasoning involved? Does one eat it alone or is there any garnishments? Just askin |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-04-18 19:54 |
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| Posted by: GizzardPuke 2006-04-18 19:05 |
| #36 I knew it. He's just in it for the placenta. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-04-18 18:22 |
| #35 5mg Ativan - stat. And would someone please run Tom's lithium levels? I think he's off his meds again. Check with his analyst as well, M'kay? Might be working through the "I'm so straight and this is MY baby. So, why do I want to do such desparate stunts to make me feel like I'm the one giving birth?" confusion he goes through. Don't know what it is, but it's in DSMIV somewhere. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-18 18:21 |
| #34 My wife inquired, and was told that a certain stripe of high-minded vegetarian eagerly prepares and devours placenta stew, the placenta being the only form of meat that does not involve the slaughter of some innocent animal. Gee would Tom turn cannibal if the person being eaten was willing to get killed and eaten. After all they would not be an innocent victim |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2006-04-18 17:55 |
| #33 When I saw him say this it was pretty obvious it was a joke. Still, he does seem to be a bit of a madman. |
| Posted by: HV 2006-04-18 17:45 |
| #32 He put a spell on that girl, just like he some kinda witch docter! Before him, she was a nice girl from a nice family. Nice Catholic girl. From Ohio. Now she brainwashed member of some whacko cult tricked into having crazy cult poobah's alien child. Sad, sad, sad. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2006-04-18 17:06 |
| #31 Look for Tom and Katie in the remake of "Rosemary's Baby". "Rosemary's Baby II: Our Home Movies ". |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-04-18 16:35 |
| #30 Thank you Google. Here's one I doubt you'll see on Emeril Lagasse: PLACENTA RECIPES! To the Teeming Millions: A friend has sent me recipes from the summer 1983 issue of Mothering magazine for the following mouth-watering dishes: placenta cocktail (1/4 raw placenta, 8 ounces of V-8 juice, 2 ice cubes, 1/2 carrot, blend for 10 seconds at high speed), placenta lasagna, placenta spaghetti sauce, placenta stew, and placenta pizza. The last one will definitely stop conversation at your next Super Bowl party, and since you're not likely to be able to order it from Domino's, here's what you have to do: "Grind placenta. Saute in 2T olive oil w/4 garlic cloves, then add 1/4 tsp. fennel, 1/4 tsp. pepper, 1/4 tsp. paprika, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. onion, minced, 1/2 tsp. oregano, 1/4 tsp. thyme and 1/4 cup wine. Allow to stand 30 min., then use with your favorite homemade pizza recipe. It's a fine placenta sausage topping!" |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-04-18 16:32 |
| #29 Ima have a friend that uses the little Cords to simulate human high speed artery bleeding - he has a couple of maybe new ways to stop it. He hates gauze. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-04-18 16:17 |
| #28 Clean up on aisle three. IIRC I thought all the up and coming were medically saving the little cord cause they can derive stem cells for later use in case something goes rotten with the body later. Burning your insurance policy make real good sense. But then again, good sense and Hollyweird.... |
| Posted by: Thaitch Graviling3173 2006-04-18 15:35 |
| #27 man I've lost my appetite for lunch. What if she has an abruption or something, will he eat all of the blood clots too? He is too weird for me. The hospital I worked in had a contract with a company that bought placenta's and used them for make up protein creams and such. When the hospital lost the contract, the huge chest freezer that was used went up for bid. I got it for $100.00 bucks. I cleaned this freezer with a fine tooth comb believe me. Later the joke was that I had the freezer that used to have body parts. Now it just keeps venison ;) |
| Posted by: Jan 2006-04-18 15:10 |
| #26 Sometimes I can see why the Iranians might be inclined to exterminate us. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-04-18 14:54 |
| #25 The AMA's position is as far away as possible... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-04-18 14:53 |
| #24 Is there an AMA position paper on Tom Cruise? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-04-18 14:31 |
| #23 That li'l box thingy was s'posed to be a 'does not equal' sign. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-04-18 13:30 |
| #22 Announcement of placentarianism good opening box office. Lern it. Live it. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-04-18 13:27 |
| #21 Now you just know Tom Thumb is gonna have his chef cook with the new mother's breast milk after the blessed event. GAAK!! |
| Posted by: GORT 2006-04-18 13:16 |
| #20 The grandparents must be very proud. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-04-18 12:50 |
| #19 rofl - Clavins Slirt - Sorry its me who wrote that last one, damn funny name though. (lol not mine) |
| Posted by: ShepUK 2006-04-18 12:46 |
| #18 this creeped the hell outa me reading this,lol.I'd just ahd a lovely meal and now just want to hurl it back up argghhh why did i read this! rofl. I'm gonna yak in a bag and send it to cruise as an insult but he'll probably scoff it down! |
| Posted by: Clavins Slirt8393 2006-04-18 12:44 |
| #17 Well, I suppose in some tribal cultures where protein is hard to come by...(urk)...there might be some kind of logic to (urk..urk)eating the placenta but.... omigod... ******hasty and violent upchuck into the office wastepaper basket**** Sorry about that. Can someone pass me some paper towels. I'm sorry, but every time I'll see Tom Cruise now, I'll remember this and wanna hurl up my socks. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2006-04-18 12:33 |
| #16 Oops...looks like my tingers got fangled. I meant to say: Cats have a natural personal dignity, etc. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-04-18 12:08 |
| #15 Placenta stew vs. Martini + Filet @ Gibson's.... I know where I'm going. Doesn't this smack somewhat of cannibalism? I mean, actually it is, by definition, cannibalism. Ugh. |
| Posted by: Mark E. 2006-04-18 11:59 |
| #14 CVats also have a naytual personal dignity, which is more than I can say about M. le Mental Case. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-04-18 11:56 |
| #13 All of my cats always eat the placenta after giving birth. Of course, they also eat roting mice carcasses lying around. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-04-18 11:40 |
| #12 Oh, man, I think I'm gonna glurk... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-04-18 11:27 |
| #11 I suspect that in such cases the placenta-producer's placenta delivery chute is not tested for the more common placenta delivery chute contaminants, bacteria, viruses or fungi. Anyone for an oral yeast infection? Oral syphalis? Other things too icky to think about? Me, too. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-04-18 11:18 |
| #10 And you wonder why we never had kids? |
| Posted by: Nicole Kidman 2006-04-18 11:13 |
| #9 The trailers for MI3 look good...but ugh, he's so freakin' weird. He's creeping closer to Wacko Jacko territory with each passing day. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-04-18 11:10 |
| #8 Jesus. I'm the luckiest broad on the face of the earth... |
| Posted by: Penelope Cruz 2006-04-18 11:09 |
| #7 Cruise has jumped the shark. |
| Posted by: KBK 2006-04-18 11:08 |
| #6 I never thought I'd say this, but I'd much rather read about Paris Hilton than these two. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2006-04-18 10:53 |
| #5 Dear Cecil: Here's the story. My wife just got back from Berkeley where she helped a friend give birth--and of course it all happened at home, in some kind of tub, underwater, with violins playing and midwives hovering about. Here's what she says happened next. Out came the afterbirth, which was carefully collected in a pot and put in the fridge to keep cool. Through the day, various vegetarians who dropped by to pay their respects asked about the placenta. My wife inquired, and was told that a certain stripe of high-minded vegetarian eagerly prepares and devours placenta stew, the placenta being the only form of meat that does not involve the slaughter of some innocent animal. Can this be true? And if it is, why isn't some shrewd entrepreneur bagging cow and ewe placenta and selling it at the Jewel? I want to be told this was a tall story. --Rip Sewell, Chicago Cecil replies: Love to accommodate you, Ripster, but once again we find ourselves outgunned by reality. Having investigated the matter with my customary thoroughness, no small achievement under the circumstances, I can report the following facts: (1) chowing down on placenta doesn't happen often, but (2) it happens. May God have mercy on our heathen souls. My principal source on this is a physician who has attended roughly a thousand births in the San Francisco Bay area over the years, more than two-thirds of them at home. In all this time he has encountered placenta stew exactly once, in Berkeley in the early 1970s. The father was a professional cook who concocted his own tasty recipe for placenta stew, complete with potatoes and onions, which he served to his hard-core veggie friends. The doctor, suffering an embarrassing failure of nerve, did not sample the stew himself, but says it smelled something like liver. The veggies munched away gamely but didn't look very happy. One woman, in fact, became nauseated, which the doctor attributes to a lack of exposure to organ meats. Having seen a few miracle-of-childbirth movies in high school, however, I'd say there's a simpler explanation. There are those who was eloquent about the joy of placenta cuisine. In Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal (Berkeley, 1978), Jeannine Parvati describes her experience: "[It] was after a very powerful birthing. The mother ate some raw first; eww and then let me take some into the kitchen for fixing. My experience of this slab of meat was amazing. I had never felt such life-force present in meat before.... This meat still felt very much alive to me as I began to slice it and saute it in garlic and oil.... By the time the placenta was tender, the birthday party members were very hungry, and exhausted. After the supper, eaten in a glowing silence, everyone was energized, very much re-vitalized.... Notwithstanding, the first time I ate placenta has also been my last time.... Guess I just lost [the] taste." I'll bet. She goes on: "When you first encounter the meat, remember to pause--placenta can be sacred food, if you let the meat tell you how to prepare it for the fire.... Chew slowly, till the placenta becomes a liquid, ambrosia. Placenta is a rare privilege for most of us." |
| Posted by: gromky 2006-04-18 10:40 |
| #4 Some attention whores will do anything. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-04-18 10:30 |
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| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-04-18 10:11 |
| #2 gawwwd.. paahLeeeese go awayyyy. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-04-18 09:15 |
| #1 ...and Scientology drops a few more points behind Islam. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-04-18 08:20 |