Sidenote, if that’s what zombies eat then maybe we can just keep giving them lard to snack on
thought it’d just be other brains, but I over think things which means mine would not be good eating. it would be very chewy.
but hey its full of weed. so 50/50 depending on your mood.
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It’s not just random fat, though. IIRC, things like EPA acids and DHA acids found in fish oil supplements are high-quantity in the brain.
Though, I’m sure we’ve all met lard-heads in life…
You could just literally eat brain, some cultures absolutely still do that…
Sheep prion disease doesn’t affect humans
Beef prion disease came from feeding beef beef waste including beef brain. It isn’t much of a risk
Human prion disease happens in populations where people eat people’s brains
French still eat sheep brain. Almost pure cholesterol.
No one said it was a good idea, just that it could be done.
Is that like “Everyone mushroom is edible at least once?”
More like “If you want tacos de sesos that badly, you better trust the rancher.”
not the best fat health wise but great for long term shelflife.
It’s a pretty good fat health wise, lamb brains have been a very popular weaning food. I remember eating brain as a small child
you don’t need to eat brains to get lard like the OP stated. Im not even sure if would be the best source. Im not sure I would want to eat brains given prions.
Lard is rendered pig fat. It would be strange if that cake and pastry ingredient was what brains are made of.
Brains are an excellent emergency baby food, they’re good food regardless with plenty of high energy fat and loads of nutrients
I really don’t know but again given prions I would not feed it to a baby. I mean if I was in the wild and took down game for some reason I would also not touch the brain. I only mention lard because it was the OP and what my first commnet was refering to.
Prions very rarely affect other species, vCJD was unusual in that it was a cow cannibalism illness (mad cow disease) that also caused fatal mental illnesses in humans.
Sheep prions mess up sheep but not us, you’re incredibly unlikely to get a prion disease from a random wild animal, and you’re very safe if you only take healthy animals
The only populations that still live off the land that suffer prion disease are those that practice cannibalism. All of them eat brains. Humans probably evolved taking brains from lion kills; bashing the skulls open with rocks the same way chimps bash open nuts
Brains as food is the closest equivalent to brain food.
Fun fact. I had to take a neuroanatomy course where we dissected real human brains.
A human brain smells very very similar to raw chicken fat.
Like. I couldn’t eat chicken for months after taking that class and a few classmates told me it also turned them off chicken.
Also they are bigger than I thought and weigh quite a bit.
I don’t like body horror though so generally my curiosity was satiated within 15 min and I remained grossed out the rest of the semester.
I think I actually became increasingly repelled by the brains. They smelled worse over time we kept them in some preservation fluid. The more we cut them up the more mushy they got.
Also. Holding a brain upside down ,… Yeah so because it’s symmetrical and all the little extra bits are symmetrical, it can cause pareidolia. It looks like , idk. Things start to look weird. Really weird.
Circle of willis on their own look like a little alien creature on your brain base. It’s weird and creepy.
Other structures make it look like weird faces or something.
I didn’t like the class much.
That sounds equally awful and fascinating! I’ve helped out in radiology (Healthcare IT) a lot over the years and the physiology is endlessly fascinating - until it makes me nauseous…
I thought my curiosity would win out over the disgust. But it did not.
Circle of willis
Sounds like fun to me, but I’m weird 🤷
