Idiom
long pork
Meaning
Human flesh.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Cannibals sometimes called human meat long pork.”
“The explorer's diary mentioned that locals feared the tribe would serve them long pork.”
“In the grim tavern scene, the old sailor whispered that sailors lost at sea sometimes ate long pork to survive.”
Examples
simple
“Cannibals sometimes called human meat long pork.”
contextual
“The explorer's diary mentioned that locals feared the tribe would serve them long pork.”
complex
“In the grim tavern scene, the old sailor whispered that sailors lost at sea sometimes ate long pork to survive.”
Origin
Reportedly coined following the assertions of cannibals that human meat tastes like pork. Given the anatomical similarities between the two species, the name serves as a functional, if somewhat local, culinary distinction.
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