Consumption
It is still debated and difficult to substantiate whether live monkey brains was one of the items in the Qing dynasty's Manchu Han Imperial Feast. Paul Burrell, the former butler of Princess Diana, claims he was served monkey brains on banana leaves and coconut palms on one of their visits.
The Anyang tribe of Cameroon practices a tradition in which a new tribal chief would consume the brain of a hunted gorilla while another senior member of the tribe would eat the heart.
It is not only humans who eat the brains of monkeys. Both extant species of chimpanzee are known to eat the brains of monkeys which provide fat in their diet.
Read more about this topic: Monkey Brains (cuisine)
Famous quotes containing the word consumption:
“What happens is that, as with drugs, he needs a stronger shot each time, and women are just women. The consumption of one woman is the consumption of all. You can’t double the dose.”
—Ian Fleming (1908–1964)
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—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“There is held to be no surer test of civilisation than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognisable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilisation altogether.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)