lusty lulu

Guest blogger Lulu is in the house.
Her assigned topic for discussion is " That's frickn' ridiculous"

Hello world. So, as stated above, I have been given the assignment to write about things that are frickin ridiculous. I feel, however, that this does not narrow the field quite enough -- lets face it, most things are frickin ridiculous in some way or another. So I am self assigning myself the following topic: "That is frickin ridiculous and disgusting."

Sara brought a strange and sick practice to my attention the other day. People who give birth, and then take home the placenta and eat it. WHAT THE FUCK!? What is wrong with people!? Now, I like to think that I am a fairly open-minded, tolerant person when it comes to accepting people's various eccentricities, etc. However, this one crosses the line. What the fuck are people thinking? There is no good reason that I can come up with for people to collect the mass of bloody, gross placenta, bring it home, and stick it in the freezer, then break out a couple of onions and a clove or two of garlic and saute yourself up some dinner. Isn't that just like a form of cannibalism? Because basically you are eating a part of your own insides. Or, conversely, you are eating a part of your newly born child. Both things strike me as unacceptable in a civilized society, where you don't need to eat it because otherwise you would starve or not get enough nutrients or something, like our cave-dweller ancestors, or some of the other species on the planet.

Now, just to be clear, I have no problem with people who have cultural customs that beleive that the placenta is part of the child, and have various rituals that they do to honour their new baby, such as some Hawiians, who plant the placenta alongside a new tree, and then the tree grows alongside the child. That is fine. Do what you will. Just please don't serve it to me in a stew.