Elegant Placenta Jar
October 26th, 2009
I wonder what other customs this family has. Let’s try to think of some. I’ll get us started.
When a girl is born, they dry the umbilical cord in a straight line, season it with cloves and vanilla, cut it into three-inch sections, then pass them around and enjoy a smoke, using old-timey cigarette holders.
When a pet dies, they craft mittens from its lovingly tanned hide.
When a first-born child graduates from middle school . .
To all those supporting this disgusting practice:
There are plenty of traditions I don’t support:
Mormons who take multiple wives.
Radical Muslims who blow up buildings.
Again, radical Muslims who beat women for suspected adultry.
Groups that sanction public rape of women for suspected adultry.
Female circumcision.
Just because something is a tradition does not mean I have to like it, agree with it, or can’t laugh my a** off about it. You want to eat a placenta? Go ahead. I’ll pass on ever eating at your place and won’t expect to see you on Hell’s Kitchen.
Just a side note: Mormons don’t take multiple wives. If a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints has multiple wives, he is kicked out of the church. Mormons stopped polygamy over 100 years ago. Saying Mormons practice polygamy is like saying Jews practice polygamy because Abraham had multiple wives.
Yeah, maybe not by the books they don’t.
The LDS Church (Latter Day Saints) as it stands does NOT believe in polygamy. The only ‘Mormons’ who practice Polygamy are those who belong to sects that have branched off from the church that Joseph Smith started. These sects, although people confuse them with being Mormon, are not actually apart of the LDS church. The reason they are called Mormons is because they use The Book of Mormon as one of their ‘Holy Texts’. Polygamy is not accepted in the church and the LDS church does not consider those who belong to such other sects (eg: Fundamentalists)or who/ practice Polygamy as part of our church, being Mormon or even having the same faith.
Please read carefully. I did not refer to all mormons. I refer to those mormons (usually of a radical sect) who do continue the practice.
As a “Mormon” I must add that not all “Mormons” are unable to read and/or reason.
And, seriously, who in the world would want more than one wife?
Who’d even want one wife, dude?
According to the Wiki it’s not cannibalism because it’s not muscle or fat? That’s some crazy reasoning.
It’s a little like someone eating “period junk” if you ask me. ew, just ew.
“After a comfortable night’s rest on the dog pelt pallet and pillows stuffed with human hair, he awakened to the most intoxicating mix of scents which he had to assume would be the best breakfast he would enjoy in awhile. The smell of egg, coffee and breads mingled with something magical…something that reminded him of…a delivery room?”
WAY too much comedy gold in this thread….
*barf*
What bothers me is that this custom is only if a MALE child is born. Why? Is there something different about the placenta if the baby is female? Are females in their family POISONOUS?! O.o IS THAT WHY SHE CAN’T HAVE BEBBIES!?! O[]o
“Bebbies”?
*double barf*
Uh, so…first off…CANNINBALISM ANYONE?
Secondly…ew…just ew…WTF WOULD YOU DO THAT.
And third off…that’s sexist. Only eating the male’s placenta. I suppose you have your own caste system as well?
Well, we squeeze the milk out of another animals’ tits and drink it, and eat the eggs of other animals, so why not eat someone’s placenta if it’s cooked? It’s not like someone’s eaten alive or anything, or something happening against someone else’s will. *shrug*
I wouldn’t eat it myself, but it takes a whole lot of constructed hypocrisy to turn this into something “wrong”.
I don’t drink the milk from my own tits. I don’t eat my own eggs. You do the math.
you don’t? oh… i thought everyone did…
But other women’s milk is ok?
And what about semen, huh? Anyone ever eat your semen?
And FYI Gordon Ramsey did consume human milk on “The F Word”
it’s not like people don’t ever eat semen.
You will notice that the operable word here was “MY”…. and, no, I don’t swallow.
What’s wrong with swallowing? I do… I personally find it offensive if a person were to spit. That’s like saying “Hey, I’ll suck your dick, but your cum repulses me.”
Oh dear God…
Dude, eating your placenta is what you’re supposed to do. It contains a lot of the nutrients that’ll help you make up for your pregnancy – it’s really really good for you!
Also, yes we do consume human body stuff all the time. Ladies and gentlemen, cum. Not to mention the milk you drank when you were a baby. Is that cannibalism?
Speaking of, placenta is way better for you than milk is, oddly enough. I’m amazed that people are grossed out about this.
I’M NOT A DUDE!!! I’M A WOMAN!!
Welcome to the 21st century… “dude” is a unisex term.
I have heard that it’s actually an instinct for women to eat the placenta after giving birth. Apparently it goes back to cavemen times and the woman couldn’t just leave the placenta lying there as it would attract predators so they would eat it. Still gross though.
Yup. Still gross.
The native American tribe, Hoonouk, considered the human placenta to be the incarnate physical form of the life-giving force. They stretched the placenta carefully over aspen limbs and having sun-dried them with copious amounts of natural sea salt, munched on small sliced sections during spiritual ceremonies including the 28th 24 hour moon cycle.
Somehow that sounds far less disturbing.
I wonder what caveman decided what came out of a chickens a** was eatable and once watching his dog have a litter and eat the placenta tried it also? Makes you wonder about all the other things we’ve stuffed in out mouths.
Say what you will about the grossness/non-grossness or the ethics of eating placenta. The thing that floors me is that this family had a ceremonial jar for it. On top of that, she was willing to give it away. Not put it on the mantel next to Uncle Ralph’s ashes, but just give it away. hmmmmm. . .
I’d eat it if i ever had a kid and wanted to for a ritual but seriously this isnt evil or that disgusting. normally called a “caul” the placenta from twins born of the same sack would be considered very good luck once dried and worn around the neck for sailors….
my wife recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. we had the hospital put the placenta in the ‘fridge and then took it home with us as we left. when we got home i steamed it (it ended up looking like a portabella mushroom cap) then dehydrated it. i pulverized the dried placenta and put it into capsules. now my wife has about 100 capsules of the most nutrient rich, vitamin filled supplement out there. and it’s basically custom-made for her! all of you out there that are so incredibly grossed out by this should take a second look at you own lifestyle choices. do you eat chicken? where does it come from? have you been to a commercial chicken farm? what about beef cattle? have you seen the state of the slaughter houses where the beef comes from? how much of your hamburger is insect parts? or maggots? or rat poop! eating the placenta is something all mammals (except herbivores) do after giving birth, it replenishes the nutrients lost during the birth as well as provides hormones to help mom with ppd and pain management. in traditional chinese medicine, the placenta is considered to be very powerful medicine, revered for its life force providing mom with nutrients and supporting lactation.
i love that there is so much judgment and ignorance surrounding this topic, goes to show just how small-minded people are.
and by the way, my wife and i are vegan
Vegan? How UNHEALTHY of you. I guess incisors are just vestigial structures.
Dude.
Ever heard of this awesome new thing called vitamins?
Crazy stuff, man. Craaazy.
By the way. You confuse me!
“eating the placenta is something all mammals (except herbivores) do after giving birth.”
“and by the way, my wife and i are vegan”
So, apparently, some herbivores do eat placenta.
Which does not make that any less disgusting then the idea of sucking on my own used tampons. Thank you, no.
Many animals do eat the placenta after giving birth, both herbivore and carnivore. I don’t personally feel I would eat the placenta, however if a mother decided that she wanted to that is her decision. The ceremonial jar and how everyone gets together to eat it, however, is a different story… What is the purpose of everyone else eating the placenta? I understand if the mother thinks there is some amount of nutritional value there. In a heard of goats, who eat the placentas after birth, the mother alone eats the placenta, rather then the whole heard coming over and having a nibble.
I get so discouraged about society when I read comment after comment like these then I come across yours eddie arnold and it makes me feel so relieved that Im not the only forward thinker that educates myself on things Im not familiar with instead of just judging and criticizing. Thank the Gods for people like you! ;c)
Well apparently he is not that educated on the subject if he doesn’t realize that herbivores do eat the placenta. He is also making large assumptions that if someone finds it gross they must endorse factory farming. Personally, I would rather eat an insect than someone else’s placenta, especially if it is tied into the whole male is better/female is inferior culture that the post implies.
Actually, eddie, herbivores do eat the placenta. And is placenta vegan? I wouldn’t think so, but you’d know what’s vegan better than I, seeing as you are one. Either way, I think it’s gross. I mean, go forth if it makes you happy, but you’re not going to change my mind about it. It’s unnecessary for well-nourished people to eat the placenta and a lot of it’s “benefits” do indeed warrant the quotation marks of sarcasm.
Well, that pissed on their strawberries
so this ad is looking for someone that not only believes in eating the placenta of their male young, but also wants to pay $100 for a jar that has been used as a family tradition in some stranger’s ancestry?
I feel as if that might be a bit too lofty of a goal.
The placenta should be processed into something by Soylent Corporation, providing food to the masses of the world in high-energy rations. Soylent Green is people.
Placenta isn’t just good for vitamins, eating it after pregnancy can help alleviate the massive hormonal drop some women experience after giving birth, so it can help moderate post natal depression. Capsules… maybe. Medium rare? Probably not. I mean, I’d rather use my own placenta than buy a miracle anti aging pill or cream full of sheep placenta- and those already exist, and gross me out heaps more.
While I don’t doubt the claims that there are post-partum benefits for the mother, I find the practice of saving it for the family a touch disturbing. The fact that they have a ceremonial jar is more so.
Ditto. I can understand there might be benefits to a woman eating HER OWN placenta after a birth. It actually makes a kind of sense. But the disturbing part is the whole “store the placenta in the fridge until the family can come over and everyone shares” part of this…
I ate my placenta. It has multiple health benefits. As mammals, we are supposed to ear our placentas… get the fuck over yourselves