sy5starplaty reblogged
Look, if you're starving in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and suddenly someone is like 'oh I have tons of food and it just happens to be meat do you want some lol' you CANNOT act surprised when it's people. You simply CANNOT.
There are times and places where it is realistic to expect NOT to be served people. For example, in a pie shop underneath a barber shop. THEN you can be all 'OH GOD IT'S PEOPLE.'
If you are in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and are suddenly served a really good meat pie, you have to know it's people. Do you see any cows? No, they all apocalypsed. It's your neighbor.
If you're served food in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, ask yourself these questions first:
- Do I trust the person feeding me?
- Is this meat fresh, and if so, have there been any livestock non-apocalypsed recently?
- Have I seen Kevin within the past week?
- Am I willing to commit the penultimate culinary taboo? (The ultimate culinary taboo is putting pineapple on pizza, a crime I regularly commit)
#My mother fed me kangaroo meat once#without telling me that's what it was#I of course trusted her...#we'd eaten meat together several times#there was no reason NOT to trust her#until this one night she told me#after chewing it and trying to figure out whether it was lamb or beef#she told me... you're eating kangaroo!#and I just couldn't eat anymore...#not just because she had betrayed my trust#but because I had SWORN I would never eat one of the animals#on the Australian coat of arms#and she tricked me into eating one of the animals on the Australian coat of arms!#So later I was always questioning what we were eating#because I didn't trust her anymore#and then as soon as I was able#I started cooking for myself.#Anyway... She learned her lesson (she also didn't like the taste that much)#but I guess I'm free to try out Emu now.#retag 2024