How about liver with a nice Chianti?
The host would have an Egyptian mummy. The guest would cut off pieces of the mummy’s unwrapped flesh and nibble on it. The Victorians believed that the flesh had medicinal properties.
How could anyone think it was a good idea?
As time went on. Apothecaries were selling medicines with the flesh of mummies as an ingredient. Not only is the whole thing revolting, but it’s also hypocritical.
The same people were well-dressed snobs. Those sipping fine wines and eating human flesh. Condemned Indigenous people who were cannibals.
They would have been offended and scandalized to be placed in the same category
If someone accused them to their face of being a cannibal, I’m sure there would be a fistfight or a duel. I can imagine the conversation. As the suited-up snobs stifled the urge to vomit as they chewed on a dead Egyptian’s finger.
Some Doctors were against eating the flesh of mummies. It wasn’t for ethical reasons. They thought that fresh meat had more healing properties.
They even created a “Medicine” from the flesh of mummies
Mummia was the medicine made from the flesh of mummies. It was thought to cure a host of ailments. I don’t see the connection myself. The Scientific method must not have been around that early.
Someone, somehow, put two and two together and got one. I’m guessing that it was disguised fetishism. The Victorians wanted to get freaky and stay respectable.
Final Thought:
The Twenty-first century has its share of weirdness and ignorance. I’m glad that eating human flesh isn’t a thing yet in the modern world.
The modern world is a mess. We could be annihilated at any moment. I’m glad, though, that we have advanced to where we aren’t eating the flesh of dead people, not yet anyway.
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