Enero 8, 2015

Hipster cannibalism.

"I made smoothies out of it for three weeks. I had a home birth, so my midwife and my doula took it and cut it up into 20 pieces and froze it, and every day, I put it in a blender with strawberries and blueberries and guava juice and a banana, and I drank that s**t up."

The actress Gaby Hoffman told People Magazine.

59 (na) komento:

Gahrie ayon kay ...

eh...call me when she eats it raw and bloody just after birth like the other animals do....

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent ayon kay ...

It's human tissue. Freakin' disgusting. But...transgressive!

traditionalguy ayon kay ...

Of course as a man I have no right to judge a woman's body parts. So eat it up with a good Chianti. Just don't name it first.

CatherineM ayon kay ...

Ugh. Gross. Call me when she eats pieces of her own liver with a nice chianti.

Her eyebrows drive me crazy. I know that's shallow, but they look like 2 caterpillars. Totally distracting.

I saw her in Transparent on Amazon. Could not get into that show. Prefer her work in "Field of Dreams."

Rob ayon kay ...

This should be the story in the A block of the evening news. After all, if it bleeds, it leads.

tim maguire ayon kay ...

I'm not up on my biological genetics. Is she eating herself or her child?

Amexpat ayon kay ...

Years ago, I was offered a dish of porridge made from cow placenta as a welcome meal on a Norwegian farm. It was supposed to be a delicacy. I took a pass.

Ken Prescott ayon kay ...

Um. I'll take "How to get Kuru" for $1,000, Alek.

Ficta ayon kay ...

Pikers!

Curious George ayon kay ...

"Ken Prescott said...
Um. I'll take "How to get Kuru" for $1,000, Alek."

Funny. But it's AleX.

Heartless Aztec ayon kay ...

Really? Really?

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

What else could she do? She already had all the lampshades she needed.

CStanley ayon kay ...

@tim maguire- both.

Revenant ayon kay ...

I was going to ask "why the hell would anyone want to eat a placenta", but then I remembered that I don't give a shit.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

After the home birth of my first son, I looked at the placenta and thought, "looks like really fresh liver. I wonder how it would taste; I'm sure it's really good for you..." Now, I regret not cooking it up. Maybe next time...

Mark ayon kay ...

At least she came up with a novel way to get attention, I guess.

Never heard of her, nor anything she is in beyond the Dunham show that screams for attention like an air raid siren and is hard to not have heard of.

Hope she enjoys her 15 minutes of fame.

Patrick ayon kay ...

It is amazing what whacky shit people will do because they "heard something."

Lewis Wetzel ayon kay ...

Would she have eaten the placenta if the pregnancy was the result of rape by a campus republican?

Donald ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

This would have seemed much more grotesque before I learned that nurses everywhere used to put 'healthy' shit in milkshakes and give it to the patients to repopulate the colon and help with intestinal issues or somesuch.

That was pre-naturopathy, just the regular way of doing things in the fairly recent past.

Skyler ayon kay ...

When my wife went to birthing classes (which are generally worthless, by the way, birth will happen regardless of the number of classes you take) the instructor mentioned at each class that there are lots of good recipes for the placenta. I tried, in vain, to find the anti-cannibalism laws in Texas. Alas, eating people seems to be legal.

Amichel ayon kay ...


"Most authors indulge in little eccentricities when working, and, if the time should ever come that your name is brought before the public notice it would be advisable to develop some whimsical habit so as to be prepared for the interviewer, who is sure to ask whether you have one." How fitting.

Meade ayon kay ...

With [Gaby], I learned how to eat small green chili peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to [placenta] (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy).

Ignorance is Bliss ayon kay ...

Hipster cannibalism was part of the Walking Dead storyline end-of-last / start-of-this season.

richard mcenroe ayon kay ...

Maybe this country needs to be invaded. We could give up both coasts and call it a win...

Meade ayon kay ...

In some cultures, eating placenta would be tantamount to eating the dead twin sibling of the live newborn baby.

richard mcenroe ayon kay ...

Cows eat their placenta because they desperately need the protein back.

What's hipster Hoffman's excuse? Her significant other can't drive all the way to Trader Joe's?

Gahrie ayon kay ...

This would have seemed much more grotesque before I learned that nurses everywhere used to put 'healthy' shit in milkshakes and give it to the patients to repopulate the colon and help with intestinal issues or somesuch.

Oh it is even better now!

Now you can get a transplant of someone else's shit to repopulate your colon.

Gahrie ayon kay ...

http://jezebel.com/5946543/poop-transplant-saves-womans-life

Captain Curt ayon kay ...

Do any of the older commenters here remember the early Saturday Night Live fake commercial for "Placenta Helper"?

Michael McNeil ayon kay ...

Um. I'll take “How to get Kuru” for $1,000, Alek.

You can't give it to yourself! (Kuru is a human prion disease, similar in that regard to mad cow disease, that was passed on within a particular tribe, the Fore people of New Guinea, by ritual cannibalism of the deceased.)

Unknown ayon kay ...

I ill not be able to watch a Gabby Hoffman performance without thinking about this, and therefore will not.

CStanley ayon kay ...

@Captain Curt- yes, I remember Placenta Helper. For some reason the most memorable SNL commercials revolved around the eating of disgusting things- like that one as well as Bass-o-Matic and Shimmer Floor Wax (the floor was that was also a dessert topping.)

TCR James ayon kay ...

It's not authentic cooked placenta unless your lumbersexual boyfriend chops it up atop a recycled Brazilian teak chopping block, using a Gransfors Bruks artisanal axe, and cooks it on your Viking Range in a vintage cast iron pot. Best served with a light chablis.

Richard Dolan ayon kay ...

Althouse must like the weirdness of these stories. I recall, from the early days of this blog (2005?), a post about a Chinese artist who grafted the head of an aborted human fetus onto a dead bird, and called it art. Still haven't forgotten such an ugly image after all these years.

lemondog ayon kay ...

.....with a menses shake?

Wild animals eat their own placenta in order to not draw predators.

Placentophagy apparently is not for everybody

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

"It's not authentic cooked placenta unless your lumbersexual boyfriend chops it up atop a recycled Brazilian teak chopping block, using a Gransfors Bruks artisanal axe, and cooks it on your Viking Range in a vintage cast iron pot. Best served with a light chablis."

I note that Hoffman's placenta is not cooked at all!

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

I'm guessing placenta.

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

and I was right...

James Pawlak ayon kay ...

Should abortionists be required to do the same with the dead meat they produce?

Freeman Hunt ayon kay ...

Roasted grasshopper is bad. Grasshoppers are too big. Crickets are better but still not good.

There is a local woman who converts raw placenta into capsule form for consumption. I don't know of anyone I know eating placenta though.

There are lots of butcher shops around. I guess if you really want to skip a stop on the way home from the hospital, this placenta eating is an option. Alternatively, you could have someone else do the shopping.

Freeman Hunt ayon kay ...

"I note that Hoffman's placenta is not cooked at all!"

Placenta sushi. Too hip by half maybe.

Sam L. ayon kay ...

Self-cannabalism. Couldn't be more full of herself it she'd swallowed her arm!

The Godfather ayon kay ...

Gaby is well-named (though misspelled).

"Eating People Is Wrong" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGW-qnlrMjs

I am a robot

The Godfather ayon kay ...

Hah! Fooled you!

I am NOT a robot.

Lewis Wetzel ayon kay ...

It's not authentic cooked placenta unless your lumbersexual boyfriend chops it up atop a recycled Brazilian teak chopping block, using a Gransfors Bruks artisanal axe, and cooks it on your Viking Range in a vintage cast iron pot. Best served with a light chablis.
Q:What kind of light chablis?
A:Oh, it doesn't matter. Whatever is cheap.

Bob R ayon kay ...

In my experience it's not an authentic placenta meal unless it's directly eaten from the straw, steaming in the glow of a heat lamp, and your body is covered with wool. (You're giving me breach birth flashbacks. I can still smell the lanolin. I need to go wash my arm to the elbow.)

I believe in keeping my carbs low, but this paleo crap is just dumb.

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

'"Like judgment" could be a thing. I know some persons on faceblook, and I like the idea of creating anxiety for them by asking themselves to consider how they might be considered judgmental, or Judged mental as it were, and why that might be reason enough to sit out the culture wars lest one becomes conservative, where all the fun resides." - previous thread comment applying more and more to this thread by the byte.

D. B. Light ayon kay ...

So Lena Dunham is not the craziest person on that set.

Quaestor ayon kay ...

I'm not up on my biological genetics. Is she eating herself or her child?

Paternal genes dominate the formation of the placenta, so it's neither. It's a case of toxic female devours the substance of her mate -- i.e. the black widow syndrome.

Big Mike ayon kay ...

I know the placenta thing is hotly contested and debated, and also grosses many, many people out.

And for the rest of her career any time I see her acting I'm going to thinking about "the placenta thing" and I'll be totally grossed out.

cubanbob ayon kay ...

It's borderline criminal stupidity. She should have had the cord blood extracted and stored instead. That is a real potential life insurance policy in the event the child and possibly the parents need stem cell treatments.

PB ayon kay ...

Did she saute it with fava beans and pair it with a nice chianti?

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

The question becomes, more and more, what type of person that could afford to travel to Madison, Wisconsin would choose to do so via Chicago?

Natives know about Chicago and the politicians.

I know many great Illinios residents that frequented Devils Head Resort and Convention Center.

Shitting and fucking won the Cold War and they will, the fucking shit, defeat all digital enemies, on a scale disregarding man if Jesus isn't ever present.

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Quaestor ayon kay ...

Actually this whole umzist megillah can be put to bed by giving some thought to the questions who and what?

Who? Gaby Hoffmann, a very minor celebrity. In a universe of celebrities being a minor celebrity is being not very much at all.

What? People Magazine.

QED

CBCD ayon kay ...

Trivia: Gaby Hoffman is the daughter of Viva, known as an actress in several of Andy Warhol's movies.

lgv ayon kay ...

Freeman Hunt:

"There is a local woman who converts raw placenta into capsule form for consumption. I don't know of anyone I know eating placenta though."

That's scary. I'm sure she is following FDA protocols for sanitaion and microbiological testing.

TCR James ayon kay ...

>>>I note that Hoffman's placenta is not cooked at all!

Three week old raw placenta is a lot healthier for you than the cooked or preserved kind, apparently. I'm looking forward to Whole Foods coming out with a new line of Celebrity Placenta. I'm sure it'll be a big hit but it could be hard finding locavore-approved celebrity placenta in some places.

jr565 ayon kay ...

What is up with women eating the placenta? Why?

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