Meat With A Surname

I listen to audiobooks pretty regularly. Mostly while driving, but also while consuming a meal in blissful solitude. I am currently listening to a book by Chuck Palahniuk, the guy who wrote the book that the movie "Fight Club" was based on. While I cannot recommend this particular book to anyone not insane, hopelessly lost in existential ennui, or a book critic, it does have it's high points. For one, it is truly disturbing. For some people that might not be considered a "high point" (hence my hestitancy to recommend it), but to me, it is. The recurring themes tend to illustrate a little more of the author's issues than I'd like, but it is well written, and several segments are quite clever.

But to my point. I was listening to said book as I began today's lunch of teriyaki chicken, ready to enjoy a tasty meal laced with audio entertainment, when the narrative took a decidedly grotesque turn. It was complicated, but it mostly had to do with people-eating. Not "people eating," which described the action inside the restauraunt I was in, but "people-eating," the Donner Party/Chilean Plane Crash/Jeffrey Dahmer thing.

It was an interesting psychological experience, chewing strips of spiced meat while someone was whispering the details of the extraction and preparation of human flesh into my ear. Naturally, you start to feel like you, yourself, are eating people-meat. You start to taste that metallic flavor you get when you rip off a hangnail with your teeth or bite your tongue. You start to see freckles, tattoos, and the occasional still-attached leg hair on the skin of your meat. You speculate what part you are actually eating. Is it face meat? Leg? Rump? In summary, it makes the meal a little more awkward.

I did keep eating, though. You know, for the experience of the thing.

Comments

[sam mcc]

you sick, sick man. i can't even finish the carrot cake i was eating now.
glad you got the experience now tho, right?

[author]

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