Why Do Zombies Like to Eat Us?

So why do zombies like to chomp into people? It might be because of the flavor. According to this Daily Mail article, people taste like veal:

They are the gruesome crimes that have appalled - and intrigued - the world.

First came so-called Miami 'zombie', Rudy Eugene, who stripped his victim before savaging his face by the side of the road.

Then, gay porn star Luka Magnotta allegedly murdered his former lover with an ice pick before dismembering him and devouring some of his flesh. As if this was not horrifying enough, he then apparently posted footage of the killing online.

The pair are just the latest in a long and infamous line of cannibals whose exploits have broken one of the last taboos.But back in the 1920s, one man set out to provide a detailed record of the societies that devour human flesh - and went so far as to taste it himself.

American adventurer William Buehler Seabrook wrote of his experiences in his book Jungle Ways, published in 1931. He noted that human flesh actually tastes 'just like veal'.

The account follows his travels in West Africa, where he spent time with the Guero people, and joined them as they feasted on human meat.

The author observed that the raw flesh looked like beef but less red and with pale yellow fat.

Once cooked it turned grey and smelled like beef.

As for the taste, he wrote: 'It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal.'

Seabrook's account is regarded as unreliable by many, because he later confessed Guero tribesmen refused to let him take part in their tradition - bizarrely claiming he made up for the disappointment by obtaining the body of a dead hospital patient in France and cooking it on a spit.

But experts regard his description as the most useful - because most commentaries on cannibalism come from the criminally insane and are often contradictory.

German killer Armin Meiwes,insisted human flesh tastes like pork, 'but a little bit more bitter, stronger.'

While Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa described it as 'tender and soft' like tuna.

The survivors of the 1970 Andes plane crash, portrayed in the movie Alive, were forced to eat their fellow passengers to survive - but insist in their accounts the frozen flesh was flavourless.

In the book Hunter, by J.A. Hunter, the author--a big game hunter and guide in pre-WWII Africa--inadvertently partook of human flesh while in the Congo. He described the flavor as similar to pork, only saltier.  There is probably a reason that human meat has long been referred to as "long pork."

This topic is getting macabre, so on to something else....