Silence of the lamb burger.
Since it’s illegal to eat human flesh, a BBC presenter conducted an elaborate experiment to imagine how his own muscle might taste by using comparable meats like lamb and beef and determined the mockup tasted “pretty good.”
Greg Foot removed a piece of his thigh, cooked it, smelt it and then made a burger close to what his actual flesh would taste like — but without actually eating it.
“Even if it was legal, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice a whole arm to make a real burger,” he says.
Foot joined a scientist to smell the aromas of his cooked thigh meat.
First he said “ew,” of the strong scent, but then added “it’s actually quite nice… really meaty though. It’s like beef and ale stew or something.”
Researches claimed that the aroma measured at about 80 percent of the real taste, but that wasn’t enough for Foot, he still needed an actual taste of something similar.
The analysis revealed that his leg was about half the type of muscle found in chicken breast and half the muscle fibers found in cuts of beef. The scientist who conducted the scent experiment said Foot’s flesh would most likely taste like a combination of red meat, pork and lamb.
“We’re actually a lot more like the animals we eat than we think,” Foot explained.
Towards the end of the video, he cooks up a mixture of meats that were founded.
Cut to a shot of a blender filled with raw meat and then a frying pan filled with a meat patty.
“It’s pretty beefy, a bit lamby,” Foot shared.
“I think that’s going to be the closest I’m ever going to get to tasting a human,” he said. “And I’ll tell you what, it’s pretty good.”
