Sick and tired of the vegan anti-gluten brigade taking a bite out of your burgers? Well then these ‘human-flesh’ flavoured ones might just be to your taste.
"I said rare... not outlawed." (Image: Justin Ramsden)
A pop-up restaurant is opening in the East End of London tomorrow, and offering diners the chance to chow down on burgers designed to taste like human flesh – all to mark the debut of the fifth season of everyone’s favourite cannibalistic slice of zombie nihilism, The Walking Dead.
The ‘human-flesh’ burger was created by chef James Tomlinson and ‘Miss Cakehead’, a creative director and expert when it comes to creating gory gourmet food.
The two chefs avoided lengthy prison sentences by not actually resorting to cannibalism to devise their burgers – instead, they pored over the real accounts from people throughout history who nibbled on the meat, like explorer William Seabrook and murderer Issei Sagawa.
Seabrook, who convinced a medical intern in 1920s Paris to give him a sizeable chunk of a recently deceased man to taste, described the flesh as being like “good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef.” Sagawa, who killed an consumed a Dutch woman in his apartment (also in Paris) in 1981, said human flesh tastes like “raw tuna in a sushi restaurant.”
To replicate these accounts, Tomlinson and Miss Cakehead blended a mixture of veal, pork, and bone marrow. You can find the recipe here.
The Walking Dead returns in mid-October, and the burgers were inspired by the fourth season's finale, and can be followed on Twitter under the hashtag #TerminusTavern.
Still sounds more appetising than that Japanese Burger King squid-ink one, to be honest.
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H/T: Sploid
