this is along the lines of a previous thread, i thought might be of interest.
taken from
THE HAPPY ISLES OF OCEANIA by PAUL THEROUX
" I had found circumstantial evidence for cannibalism- the liking in Vanuatu
(and it had been the case in the Solomons too) for Spam. It was a theroy of
mine that former cannibals of Oceania now feasted on Spam because Spam came
the nearest to approximating the porky taste of human flesh. "Long Pig" as
they called a cooked human being in much of Melanesia. It was a fact that the
people-eaters of the Pacific had all evolved, or perhaps degenerated, into
Spam-eaters. And in the absence of Spam they settled for corned beef, which
also had a corpsy flavor."
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