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Apparently Tom Cruise is going to eat the placenta from the birth of his baby. What an uproar it has caused! They brought it up on Brisbane’s talk radio, 612 and got hundreds of callers in. One lady that had actually eaten it for her two children. She said it was supposed to prevent post natal depression so that was excuse enough to chomp it down.

Recently, before the hype in fact, Internet Zillionaire wrote a humorous article about the placenta. From the post:

Me (rubbing stomach eagerly): �Excuse me, nurse, can you box this up for me? I definitely want to polish this off when I get home!�

It’s supposed to be really good for you. Like a tub of vitamins in every bite. Some people on the radio were calling it cannibalism, nearly all of them thought of the idea as gross.

And then comes the issue of how do you actually prepare placenta, do you stir fry it with some oriental vegetables or gobble it up fresh from the womb? The lady on the radio said that she took it home and kept it in the fridge and would cut it up into bite sized (fun size) pieces and down it with a glass of orange juice. Here’s another quote from the Internet Zillionaire article on preparing the placenta:

If my wife does go to the trouble to make a placenta casserole, I guess I would try it, just so I wouldn�t hurt her feelings. Of course, all of this is a moot point, since I basically eat whatever my wife cooks for dinner without question anyway. For all I know, I could have had placenta last night� And if that were the case, I would have to say that placenta tastes (and looks) a lot like spaghetti.

I asked my Mum if she ate my (or her? not sure) placenta and she told me she heard it on the radio and it was disgusting and that “crazy woman was gross”.