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2009-07-07 | ||
And I thought I'd never read an interesting article in Time again. Afterbirth: It's What's For Dinner There is so much you can't know about your spouse when you get married, like that one day she will want to eat her placenta. But there are two things you don't argue about with a pregnant woman: what she eats and that being full of life indeed looks sexy. So when Cassandra told me that for $275, a woman would come to our house, cook Cassandra's placenta, freeze-dry it and turn it into capsules to help ward off postpartum depression and increase milk supply, I said, "$275 is a bargain compared with the $20,000 I'll have to spend to tear out our kitchen immediately afterward." Most mammals, Cassandra explained, eat their placentas, to which I countered that most dogs eat their poop.
Go ahead, read the rest, you know you want to. h/t Hot Air
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Posted by:Glenmore |
#18 Maybe they could get together with Erin Jacob and have a party. |
Posted by: tipper 2009-07-07 18:57 |
#17 Why am I not surprised that someone like Stein married a cannibalistic hippie chick? She's going to make a shake out of your ashes after she drives you into an early grave, Joel! I swear I know people like these. They're usually pagan assholes of one stripe or another, but still think they ought to be able to have a Catholic Church wedding - without all the references to Christ. |
Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-07-07 15:33 |
#16 "All together now, Men, wid feeling, EEEEEWWWWWWW!" Joe, as a woman, I'll say it too: Eeeeeeeewwwwwww! |
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-07-07 14:24 |
#15 Ah yes, Placenta Pie, Hot Afterbirth Sammich's and let's not skip the Umby (umbilical cord) Hot Dogs! |
Posted by: Injun Grinesing9686 2009-07-07 12:02 |
#14 Play Video. Eating Placenta Ummmmmmm...don't think so. Marry a hippie, live with the consequences. |
Posted by: tu3031 2009-07-07 12:01 |
#13 Steve Martin once delivered the line (at a fancy party): "I've been to soo many pagan childbirths, now it seems wierd NOT to eat the placenta" Gross and hilarious. |
Posted by: flash91 2009-07-07 11:05 |
#12 Procopius2k, it is the same Joel Stein, the shallow Time magazine writer about Los Angeles superficialities. However, what he actually wrote about not supporting the troops was But I'm not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken -- and they're wussy by definition. It's as if the one lesson they took away from Vietnam wasn't to avoid foreign conflicts with no pressing national interest but to remember to throw a parade afterward. This strikes me as reasonable, especially since he wrote, in the same essay but in a previous paragraph that he had to respect anyone who voluntarily signed up for eight years of danger in far away places, and that he was sure such people would be fun to hang out with -- the ultimate accolade in his circle. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2009-07-07 10:43 |
#11 I don't know Cornsilk - you have the likes of John Edwards roaming the halls of maternity wards everywhere. That's where he made his killings.... |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-07-07 10:40 |
#10 Don't most placenta eating mammals do that as a protective measure (to get rid of the birth evidence so predators will have a harder time of finding the vulnerable newborns)? I mean, unless there are a bunch of saber-toothed tigers prowling the L&D ward, why the hell would anyone want to do this? |
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-07-07 10:16 |
#9 Same Joel "I don't support the troops" Stein? |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-07-07 09:35 |
#8 when Cassandra's looks fade in her 50s, there's no way I'm putting up with this crap. If you are now, you will then. The shit I put up with depresses the hell out of me. |
Posted by: Spot 2009-07-07 08:32 |
#7 Well, in the same vein, you never, ever, accept a glass of milk from a radical Le Leache League member. Just sayin'. . . |
Posted by: GORT 2009-07-07 07:43 |
#6 I thought we had laws against eating human body parts. I wonder if fava beans would go well with it. |
Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-07-07 07:39 |
#5 Eat it? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-07-07 03:27 |
#4 "DOES IT TASTE LIKE CHICKEN???" Probably more like liver. |
Posted by: crosspatch 2009-07-07 03:13 |
#3 All together now, Men, wid feeling, EEEEEWWWWWWW! * Yokay, I'll say it, DOES IT TASTE LIKE CHICKEN??? |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-07-07 03:12 |
#2 I had an Italian buddy that used to joke about this. Never envisioned any truth to it. YJCMTSU. |
Posted by: Broadhead6 2009-07-07 00:19 |
#1 Joel Stein has led a sheltered life. In Chinese |
Posted by: Zhang Fei 2009-07-07 00:15 |