Peter_Puget Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Disgusting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Disgusting  Actually, it depends on how you prepare it. That recipe with shallots and garlics sounds pretty yummy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyHarry Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 That may be so Oly, but it doesn't change the fact that Tom Cruise is a very strange person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountainmatt Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 He seems to get a little more insane everyday... Â Go Super Adventure Club! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinfox Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 TOM'S NEW MOVIES..  Mission Impassable  A Chew Good Men  Eyes Wide Gut  Top Gum  The Gore of the Worlds  Cord on the Fourth of July  Days of Chunder  Maternity Report  Interwomb with the Vampire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken4ord Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 TOM'S NEW MOVIES.. Mission Impassable  A Chew Good Men  Eyes Wide Gut  Top Gum  The Gore of the Worlds  Cord on the Fourth of July  Days of Chunder  Maternity Report  Interwomb with the Vampire  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottP Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Having first hand experience cutting through two umbilical cords, I can say with certainty Tom will be doing quite a bit of chewing the day Katie gives birth. Â ...and in other news... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekend_Climberz Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I can hear the placenta squishing as I type. Â Mmmmm.....Placenta. It's what's for diner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TREETOAD Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Many animals eat the placenta as each birth occurs, it is believed that it helps keep that mother in labour. I am starting to think that Tom cruise is actually Mike Jackson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottP Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Disgusting  Um...   Yeah... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 PLACENTA STEW: ANOTHER HELPING  Dear Cecil:  Sorry, but you've been scooped on the placenta story. The use of placenta in cosmetics was featured in the Chicago Tribune in a 1980 article entitled "Beauty May Be Only Placenta Deep." The writer interviewed the owner of RITA Organics, a company in Crystal Lake, Illinois, that makes freeze-dried extract from human placenta. They get the frozen organs individually wrapped, packed 40 to a box. The final product sells for $3,500 to $5,500 per pound. --Tom Lubomski, Chicago  Cecil replies:  The Straight Dope never gets scooped, Tom. However, we freely concede that the daily newspapers can provide a useful supplement to our work. The Tribune reported that RITA once upon a time purchased frozen placentas from hospitals (the going rate was 50 to 75 cents each), which it thawed, sliced, and filtered. The end product was a white powder that RITA sold to cosmetics companies. Products containing placenta supposedly accounted for 5 percent of all protein-based beauty aids. I've learned RITA has since gotten out of the business, but the Merieux Institute of Lyons, France, may still be at it.  In other placenta news, I have received a Stern Warning to Youth from Richard Reich, MD, of Madison, Wisconsin. Reich warns that placentophagia--that's placenta eating for you rustics--can help spread AIDS and hepatitis. Cecil therefore solemnly advises his readers, next time they're invited to a placenta party, to thoroughly inspect mother and child for signs of transmissible disease. As for Dr. Reich--come on, doc, let's chill. The stuff kept you alive for nine months, didn't it?  Finally, David English of Somerville, Massachusetts, has thoughtfully sent me a copy of the script for a censored Saturday Night Live skit featuring--you'd better sit down for this--Placenta Helper. "Placenta Helper lets you stretch your placenta into a tasty casserole," it sez here. "Like Placenta Romanoff--a zesty blend of cheeses makes for the zingy sauce that Russian czars commanded at palace feasts," etc. The last line was supposed to have been a voice-over from Don Pardo: "Placenta Helper--make a rare occasion, a rare occasion." Very tasteful. Why it got cut we'll never know.  PLACENTA RECIPES!  To the Teeming Millions:  A friend has sent me recipes from the summer 1983 issue of Mothering magazine for the following mouth-watering dishes: placenta cocktail (1/4 raw placenta, 8 ounces of V-8 juice, 2 ice cubes, 1/2 carrot, blend for 10 seconds at high speed), placenta lasagna, placenta spaghetti sauce, placenta stew, and placenta pizza. The last one will definitely stop conversation at your next Super Bowl party, and since you're not likely to be able to order it from Domino's, here's what you have to do:  "Grind placenta. Saute in 2T olive oil w/4 garlic cloves, then add 1/4 tsp. fennel, 1/4 tsp. pepper, 1/4 tsp. paprika, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. onion, minced, 1/2 tsp. oregano, 1/4 tsp. thyme and 1/4 cup wine. Allow to stand 30 min., then use with your favorite homemade pizza recipe. It's a fine placenta sausage topping!"  Be sure to let me know how it comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 People, please. Â This is so tame compared to some of the Chinese cures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Many animals eat the placenta as each birth occurs, it is believed that it helps keep that mother in labour. Â Yes, almost all mammals eat at least a portion of the placenta following birth, including cows. Preparing a small portion for a human mother to eat following childbirth was a standard practice of midwives historically as it is very effective in reducing or stopping uterine hemorrhage. Â It's a good thing to know; this simple act can save a woman's life. Nowadays, a small portion is typically blended with the patient's fruit or vegetable juice of choice to provide a more palatable preparation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 So tom won't let his wife eat a pill to ease the pain of childbirth but finds it perfectly acceptable to eat placenta? And I thought it was amusing to watch him sing into a pretend microphone while wearing only his underware... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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