Last week someone working at TGI Fridays here lost a part of a finger in a cooking accident. Apparently the injured cook didn't realize that he had cut himself quite as badly as he did, and he cleaned up and finished whatever he was working on.

A patron discovered a piece of the cook in food, and... well, you know.

If you're an HT subscriber you have access to the story: http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2006/04/29/news.new.1146283969.sto
"A patron at TGI Friday’s found a piece of a human finger on a hamburger Tuesday night..."

Here's a rather ironic Fridays' menu... search for the word "finger". http://bloomington.myfridays.com/1833.html

Which made me wonder... if you found a piece of a human in, say, your soup... would you be worried about having broken the taboo against eating humans? Even if you didn't accidentally (or on purpose!!) eat the human part, if your soup was cooked with it in there... would you feel like you had eaten man-consomme?

I'm just curious if how you feel about this depends whether you're religious and if so on how your religion treats dietary matters... on how you view the concepts of "pollution", "corruption", "purity"...


-GS