What does human flesh taste like? Canadian English teacher faces child abuse charges for showing BBC video in South Korea
- Shocked children being treated for post-traumatic stress, say South Korea police
- Video shows host Greg Foot having flesh removed from his thigh, then cooking the sample
“We’re helping the children receive treatment for post-traumatic stress,” a detective told the South China Morning Post on Monday, after parents filed complaints with police authorities in Sejong City, where the language institute is based.
In the footage, which is almost four minutes long, the host of the show allows a medical professional to take a sample of flesh from his thigh for analysis and has the sample cooked. The host, Greg Foot, then smells the sample, saying its aroma is “a lot richer than pork or chicken” and that “it’s like beef and ale stew or something”.
However, noting that eating human flesh is illegal, he stops short of tasting it. Instead he gets a scientist to analyse the sample’s aroma, concluding that it is closest to a mixture of beef and lamb. He then cooks and eats a burger made up of a mixture the analysis suggests is close to his own flesh.
“I think that’s going to be the closest I am ever going to get to tasting human. I tell you what, it’s pretty good”, he says.
