“It’s so confusing and outrageous to eat, it’s so lawless and outrageous,” a blogger wrote, adding that “white people food” is the “lunch of suffering.”

“The point of the white people’s meal is to learn what it feels like to be dead, but I’ve taken two bites and it was so bad it made me realize how alive I am,” a Weibo user wrote.

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The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine: The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?”

Sweetness and wit, sure. But mummy? In her search for an explanation, Noble, a lecturer of English at the University of New England in Australia, made a surprising discovery: That word recurs throughout the literature of early modern Europe, from Donne’s “Love’s Alchemy” to Shakespeare’s “Othello” and Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene,” because mummies and other preserved and fresh human remains were a common ingredient in the medicine of that time. In short: Not long ago, Europeans were cannibals.

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