Cruise to eat Holmes' placenta

MrJoeSoap

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/0418/cruiset.html

Cruise to eat nutritious placenta

Hollywood actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise is planning to eat Katie Holmes' placenta.

It is the latest in a series of strange revelations by the 43-year-old 'Mission: Impossible' star about the child he is expecting with fiancée Katie Holmes.

Cruise told GQ magazine: "I'm gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there."

Cruise has also claimed he knew that Katie Holmes was pregnant before she told him.

He has also defended the Scientology belief that women should give birth in silence.

"It's really about respecting the woman. It's not about her not screaming," he told GQ.

Cruise plans to marry 27-year-old Holmes in the summer. He said earlier this month that their baby was due "any day now".

Enjoyed reading this over breakfast this morning. A step too far, or a wonderful gesture? What do people think?

Also, does anyone know if this is anything to do with scientology or is it just Tom Cruise gone completely bonkers?

ChityWest

MrJoeSoap wrote:

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/0418/cruiset.html



Enjoyed reading this over breakfast this morning. A step too far, or a wonderful gesture? What do people think?

I am going to go with a 'step too far'.

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Also, does anyone know if this is anything to do with scientology or is it just Tom Cruise gone completely bonkers?

I'd say its Tom Cruise gone bonkers while in the grip of scientology.

Kiera

Ew ew ew, I heard this on the bus this morning and nearly got sick.

What is wrong with this man? Was he hit on the head a year ago? Have the aliens really brainwashed him? He has turned into a right plum, I pity that poor girl. She should run now while the going is kinda good. I’m baffled by it all.

MrJoeSoap

Kiera wrote:

I pity that poor girl.

Sure she must be just as bad! If you pity her you have to pity him.

For anyone who is interested, HERE is what Tom will be eating:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/Human_placenta_baby_side.jpg/300px-Human_placenta_baby_side.jpg

county

good job a have`nt eaten yet!

ferdi

Roast Placenta
1-3lb fresh placenta (must be no more than 3 days old)
1 onion
1 green or red pepper (green will add colour)
1 cup tomato sauce
1 sleeve saltine crackers
1 tspn bay leaves
1 tspn black pepper
1 tspn white pepper
1 clove garlic (roasted and minced)

Method:

(Preheat oven to 350 degrees)
Chop the onion and the pepper & crush the saltines into crumbs.
Combine the placenta, onion, pepper, saltines, bay leaves, white and black pepper, garlic and tomato sauce.
Place in a loaf pan, cover then bake for one and a half hours, occasionally pouring off excess liquid.
Serve and enjoy!

Dehydrating your placenta!

Instead of cooking your placenta whole, you can dehydrate it and then add it to meals! The following method is extracted from an article entitled "Thinking About Eating Your Placenta?" by Susan James, which appeared in the winter 1996 issue of "The Compleat Mother". It was discovered posted on a newsgroup noticeboard, so we cannot absolutely guarantee its authenticity, or that it is an actual verbatim account of the magazine article.

Method:

"Cut off the cord and membranes. Steam the placenta, adding lemon grass, pepper and ginger to the steaming water. The placenta is "done" when no blood comes out when you pierce it with a fork. Cut the placenta into thin slices (like making jerky) and bake in a low-heat oven (200-250 degrees F), until it is dry and crumbly (several hours). Crush the placenta into a powder - using a food processor, blender, mortar and pestle, or by putting it in a bag and grinding it with rocks. Put the powder into empty gel caps (available at drug and health food stores) or just add a spoonful to your cereal, blender drink, etc. The recommended doses vary, some suggest up to 4 capsules a day, others just one. Perhaps the best advice is to take what makes you feel good".

county

ferdi wrote:

Roast Placenta
1-3lb fresh placenta (must be no more than 3 days old)
1 onion
1 green or red pepper (green will add colour)
1 cup tomato sauce
1 sleeve saltine crackers
1 tspn bay leaves
1 tspn black pepper
1 tspn white pepper
1 clove garlic (roasted and minced)

Method:

(Preheat oven to 350 degrees)
Chop the onion and the pepper & crush the saltines into crumbs.
Combine the placenta, onion, pepper, saltines, bay leaves, white and black pepper, garlic and tomato sauce.
Place in a loaf pan, cover then bake for one and a half hours, occasionally pouring off excess liquid.
Serve and enjoy!

Dehydrating your placenta!

Instead of cooking your placenta whole, you can dehydrate it and then add it to meals! The following method is extracted from an article entitled "Thinking About Eating Your Placenta?" by Susan James, which appeared in the winter 1996 issue of "The Compleat Mother". It was discovered posted on a newsgroup noticeboard, so we cannot absolutely guarantee its authenticity, or that it is an actual verbatim account of the magazine article.

Method:

"Cut off the cord and membranes. Steam the placenta, adding lemon grass, pepper and ginger to the steaming water. The placenta is "done" when no blood comes out when you pierce it with a fork. Cut the placenta into thin slices (like making jerky) and bake in a low-heat oven (200-250 degrees F), until it is dry and crumbly (several hours). Crush the placenta into a powder - using a food processor, blender, mortar and pestle, or by putting it in a bag and grinding it with rocks. Put the powder into empty gel caps (available at drug and health food stores) or just add a spoonful to your cereal, blender drink, etc. The recommended doses vary, some suggest up to 4 capsules a day, others just one. Perhaps the best advice is to take what makes you feel good".

sounds better than bacon and cabbage tbh:)

ChityWest

. . . with some fava beans and a nice chiante.

ferdi

more great placenta recipes, like mama used to make, available here: http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=placenta+recipes&btnG=Search&meta=

MrJoeSoap

ChityWest wrote:

. . . with some fava beans and a nice chiante.

Nice! And very topical with a census on Sunday!

Stench Blossoms

That is seriously horrible. I still don't understand how people can be brainwashed by that Scientology group.

Dave!

Eating. Breakfast. You f*ck.

:mad:

Nasty little wierdos they are

Peace

I think I just vomitted in my mouth a little bit.

tintinr35

its just plain wrong!!
would you like fries with that mr cruise

rubadub

Katies not too bad looking, I'd ate her box, but ye have to draw the line somewhere.

ferdi

well at least it looks appatising http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/Human_placenta_baby_side.jpg/400px-Human_placenta_baby_side.jpg

ChityWest

ferdi wrote:

well at least it looks appatising http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/Human_placenta_baby_side.jpg/400px-Human_placenta_baby_side.jpg

That brings new meaning to the phrase 'your dinners poured out'

I have seen stuff like that on David Attenborough before - but never heard of humans doing it till today. Does anyone know if this is a scientology specific thing (like the op asked) ?

dbnavan

Expectant Father here..............NO INTENTION of following suit, might go and get myself a nice steak or something after to celebrate, but thats it.

Tobias Greeshman

Thanks Ferdi, really needed to see a picture of it :rolleyes:

I doubt he'll eat it (but if he does he's one sick ****), he's fecking loving all the press he's getting at the moment for all this scientology crap. He was a scientologist when he was with kidman and you never heard anything about any extreme stuff.

fuzzywiggle

Oh now that's disgusting. What is up with this man :rolleyes:

daiixi

I suppose, technically, it's not really any worse than eating something like haggis.. It would be rather nutritious.. but hugely, hugely gross.

Mexicola

Yea, my liking of this man has changed a lot in recent times - I used to think he was a fairly down to earth lad, until he joined the scientologists... he is clearly losing his marbles... and his taste buds... now i think he is a gimp of immense proportions...

lostexpectation

he could be taking the piss? ( actually that brought the wrong image to my head)





Its not the strangest thing I've heard but I thought it was the woman that used to do it.

stevenmu

ChityWest wrote:

I have seen stuff like that on David Attenborough before - but never heard of humans doing it till today. Does anyone know if this is a scientology specific thing (like the op asked) ?

I don't think it's anything to do with scientology. It's not all that unusual for a mother to eat the placenta to help her regain strength after giving birth. Never heard of the father doing it though, sound a bit selfish to me.

Piste

Oh no. No No No No No.

HOW and WHY would anyone do that?

It's just...just....ugh. >.<

Nice recipes though Ferdi

godfather69er

surely that is illegal it is cannabilism

daiixi

http://www.bizarremag.com/ask_bizarre.php?id=2290

a quick google search shows that there's plenty of women who dry their placentas, make them into pills and consume them or keep them until menapause and consume them then.. still.. so so so gross!

shroomfox

I saw a documentary on this once. Nothing wrong with it really, when you think about it.

Certainly a lot better than killing something for meat, eh?

Lump

It's very wrong!

BaZmO*

Mexicola wrote:

Yea, my liking of this man has changed a lot in recent times - I used to think he was a fairly down to earth lad, until he joined the scientologists... he is clearly losing his marbles... and his taste buds... now i think he is a gimp of immense proportions...

You do realise that he has been a Scientologist for the last 20 years? So therefore you knew him before his movie career took off?

godfather69er wrote:

surely that is illegal it is cannabilism

:rolleyes: Yeah that's right, it's cannabilism.

Eating your child's placenta has nothing to do with Scientology. I'm not defending the "religion" it's just that people are being silly linking the two. Sure why not link it with him being an American. :rolleyes:

A lot of mammals actually eat their newborn's placenta, although it's not something I'd be into myself.

And something that a lot people don't realise is that placenta is quite often used in anti-ageing make up.

daiixi

shroomfox wrote:

I saw a documentary on this once. Nothing wrong with it really, when you think about it.

Certainly a lot better than killing something for meat, eh?

I guess if you happen to enjoy eating offal then no, there's nothing wrong with it. But I rarely eat quality cuts of meat as it it so IMO it's totally disgusting.

Kolodny

stevenmu wrote:

Never heard of the father doing it though, sound a bit selfish to me.

Unless she's making him do it as punishment for asking her to be silent during the birth

Pigman II

Oh Tom Tom Tom! Why would you do that? What's so nutritious about that? It's ridiculous! Do you like making food of people? You're a jerk!

Terry

better he eats it than donates it for stem cell research. the last thing we need is his dna being passed around any more than it already has been.
i did get a good laugh out of the story though.

i highly recommend watching the sdouth park episode in which they rip the piss out of scientology.
it didn't air here, but can be found on-line.
as we are forbidden naming torrent sites, i would do a search for the name of mr. hat's replacement.
is that cryptic enough?

Mossy Monk

daiixi wrote:

it's not really any worse than eating something like haggis

nothing wrong with haggis :mad: :mad:

whatever Tom Cruise is into tbh

Pigman II

julep wrote:

is that cryptic enough?

Yes, but i twigged it anyway.

The_Minister

Its not unusual to do this you know. You're all acting like its a new "weird" thing.

MrJoeSoap

Well I don't think I've ever heard of anyone doing it, which is why it is "new" to me.

shroomfox

daiixi wrote:

I guess if you happen to enjoy eating offal then no, there's nothing wrong with it. But I rarely eat quality cuts of meat as it it so IMO it's totally disgusting.

It's supposed to be really nutritious. You're all just freaked out because it's taboo. I don't eat meat anyway, but I'd deffo go for some placenta before a steak.

Kiera

shroomfox wrote:

It's supposed to be really nutritious. You're all just freaked out because it's taboo. I don't eat meat anyway, but I'd deffo go for some placenta before a steak.

It wouldn’t be as bad if she were to eat it but he wants to. That’s just wrong!

Terry

Firespinner wrote:

Its not unusual to do this you know. You're all acting like its a new "weird" thing.

no, it's not new, but it is fairly disgusting.
it's just funny because tom cruise decided to tell the world that he wants to eat it.

"hey everybody, look at me. look at me. i haven't been in the paper in the last week. i need some more attention. i'm going to eat my girlfriends afterbirth."

sportswear

i don't see anything wrong with it. i ate my wifes placenta and i actually thought it was quite nice, quite salty. it just takes a bit of getting used to. you don't have to eat all of it either. just about 300g.

shes from niger and its customary there so i did it. i really don't see the problem. if its his religous belief then_?

Rhyme

For a second there i had the mental image of him eating it before the birth...

Completely normal in my opinion, ive heard about people i know eating their wives placentae and it does nothing to turn my stomach.

Waste not, want not?

daiixi

shroomfox wrote:

It's supposed to be really nutritious. You're all just freaked out because it's taboo. I don't eat meat anyway, but I'd deffo go for some placenta before a steak.

No, I find it disgusting because I just do. You won't catch me eating kidneys or liver etc either. I don't think its taboo at all. I just think its gross.

Huggles

Yeah its jjust sick and to be honest the guy is just a freak. I don't think he is serious as I reckon he is just winding up the media now.

Wertz

Kiera wrote:

It wouldn’t be as bad if she were to eat it but he wants to. That’s just wrong!

I have to agree here...the argument for the mother eating it (as in most other mammals) is that it replaces a lot of the nutrients that carrying a fetus for 9 months takes out of the body.

I think Cruise is going along the "fountain of youth" thing that's associated with the afterbirth, and that to me just sums the c*nt up perfectly. I wish the flying saucer would just come and take him early.

Nightwish

Its disgusting. Why would anyone want to eat something that came out of you? Tom Cruise is a complete fruitcake. I just cant believe Katie Holmes has been sucked into all this madness. I know that placenta-eating isnt a scientology thing but its still pretty wierd.

shroomfox

Come on...somebody explain why eating somebody's placenta is more "wrong" or more "disgusting" than eating a beef steak.

No, I find it disgusting because I just do. You won't catch me eating kidneys or liver etc either. I don't think its taboo at all. I just think its gross.

Why is kidney gross but muscle not? You make the no sense. It's all in your head.

Nightwish

I think its more wrong because its something that comes out of you. Do you eat your own excrement? If you have your tonsils out do you eat them?

ChityWest

shroomfox wrote:

Come on...somebody explain why eating somebody's placenta is more "wrong" or more "disgusting" than eating a beef steak.

Placenta is a human birth by-product - not exactly the same as eating an animal which is a different species than our own. It's a bit of a stretch to compare one to the other imo.

DEmeant0r

*sigh* let's not get into all this "meat eaters/veggies" debate again shroom...

but anyways, I think there's some sort of alien race controlling Tom cruise, he's going completely nuts...