Dutch Cooking hosts eat each others flesh

M5

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1222/cannibalism.html

Two Dutch TV hosts cooked and ate each other's flesh, sampling fried buttock and fried belly and pushing the boundaries of bad taste in a programme aired by Dutch broadcaster BNN last night.

A butcher advised presenters Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno on which were the best cuts of human flesh and a surgeon removed the strips of muscle from Mr Storm's left buttock cheek and Mr Zeno's abdomen.

A chef then fried the flesh and served it to the presenters with green asparagus on the side.

Mr Zeno described the experience as similar to eating a piece of car tyre and took a while to swallow his food on air.

Mr Storm cleaned his plate a bit faster and jokingly likened his own "meat" to Kobe beef because he takes good care of his body and health.

Mr Storm and Mr Zeno said they got the idea after seeing the film "Alive" about how members of a rugby team ate human flesh to survive after their plane crashed in a remote spot.

"Since than I have always wondered what human flesh would taste like," Mr Zeno told Reuters.

Both Mr Zeno and Mr Storm said they would not do it again because it would involve more surgery.

Cannibalism is legal in the Netherlands.

"Only when it involves maltreatment or when it violates common decency is cannibalism illegal," Gerard Spong, a Dutch lawyer who specialises in criminal law, told Reuters.

Some media, citing BNN, reported that the stunt, shown on science programme "Guinea Pigs", was a hoax.

But BNN press officer Thijs Verheij said that BNN had never said it was a hoax and that the flesh-tasting really took place.

Mr Zeno showed Reuters a scar on his belly where his flesh was removed.

The Netherlands has become a breeding ground for new TV formats, and brought the reality show "Big Brother" to the world in 1999.

In 2007, BNN aired a "donor show" where an allegedly terminally ill woman would donate her kidney to one of three candidates with a kidney problem.

At the end of that show, the presenter announced that the woman was an actress and that the show was a hoax, and that the intention had been to shock people into the realisation that the country lacked enough donors.

Strangest story i have read in a while.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

M5 wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1222/cannibalism.html



Strangest story i have read in a while.

Read it twice now and.. .wow... kinda hard to digest... :D

Apparently, they have a reputating for hoaxing though, which makes me more suspicious...

A Dutch broadcaster known for pushing the boundaries of good taste in the past, as well as hoaxing viewers, has claimed that it plans to air a segment in which two presenters eat a small chunk of one another's fried flesh.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/20/cannibalism-tv-stunt-eating-flesh

CardBordWindow

Is ANYTHING illegal in the Netherlands??

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Is ANYTHING illegal in the Netherlands??

Buying weed.

smash

I've heard it goes well with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

smurgen

Sick!i've only ever ate an arse when drunk

srsly78

Illegal stuff in NL? Yeah they banned bestiality last year.

Dotrel

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Is ANYTHING illegal in the Netherlands??

Yes. Red card!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZKuqh03zCQ

TheZohanS

Endemol no doubt.

Story is BS.

kfallon

Dutch cooks eat Dutch buttocks......must have made for some Dutch Oven later on :P

sensibleken

Oh chinny reckon

bit of 80s nostalgia there

Ghandee

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Is ANYTHING illegal in the Netherlands??

Ellis Dee

Well, given that Big Brother originated in the Netherlands, why is anyone surprised when they just go one step further and do a TV programme with people eating the arses off each other?:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

awec

Asparagus!?

Yuck!

ejmaztec

srsly78 wrote: »

Illegal stuff in NL? Yeah they banned bestiality last year.

Pigs!:mad:

Brendog

they make it sound so simple. "removed a piece of his buttocks"

That would seriously hurt. Just so someone else could eat it.
Don't know how that guy got through that interview for the job!

mfceiling

I watched a movie recently where 2 ladies ate each other...they had no clothes on mind you...

Batsy

It's not as gruesome as that British documentary - "Mummifying Alan" - that was shown on Channel 4 a couple of months ago in which they mummified a man named Alan Billis from Torquay (the man was terminally ill and gave permission for his body to take part in the experiment) in the way that scientists believe the Ancient Egyptians mummified their dead. They didn't know whether they would be able to do it but, after several months of mummification, the mummy did look like an Ancient Egyptian mummy. And the experiment confirmed just how the Ancient Egyptians mummified their dead.

The beginning of the show had an interview with the guy and his wife. His wife said that he was a bit of a joker and that, during the mummification process, he'd be looking down from heaven having a laugh.

Eventually he died and it showed scientists at the Medico-Legal Centre in Sheffield mummifying his corpse. It took about six months to do so. And now the mummy is in storage at the building in Sheffield where it will be kept for many years.

Read more:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052037/Mummifying-Alan-How-did-Alan-Billis-wife-Jan-feel-finally-seeing-Tutan-Alan.html

stimpson

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