long pork

English

Etymology

Reportedly coined because cannibals attest that human meat tastes like pork.

Pronunciation

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Noun

long pork (uncountable)

1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) Human flesh.
   • 1896-1897, Atalanta, volume 10, page 11:

     […] the doctor still seemed to share the sort of creepiness I felt at the sight of a live nigger who had actually eaten long pork.

   • 1929, Oscar Asche, his life, page 50:

     Cannibals do not eat "long pork" because they are short of animal food but in order to possess the courage of those they devour. For example, a man like Peter Jackson or John L. Sullivan would have been greatly in demand.

   • 1942, Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, Return to Malaya, page 369:

     They still play chess, but they no longer eat "long pork".

   • 2005, Jim Christy, The redemption of Anna Dupree, page 145:

     From the back of the bar, from the man with the huge pot belly, came a sound like a cannibal might make if he was choking on long pork, "Ga gobba. Ga gobba."

Synonyms

• long pig
• the other white meat (horror)
• man-meat

Translations

human flesh — see long pig