Talk:Monkey brain (cuisine)
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[edit] Popular culture Wolverine
Consideration for pop culture- In an early Wolverine issue Patch fought a bunch of thugs on a designer drug (Lightning I believe) that amped them up before it burned them out and killed them. It was made from monkey brains and of course had no effect on Wolverine whatsoever- except to make him laugh.Jbk 19:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
http://www.maxent.org/ch/monkey_brains_ad.html
[edit] Danger of prion diseases?
Would there be any danger of contracting a prion disease akin to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or mad cow from eating monkey brains? Pimlottc 15:31, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The correct term would be herbivorous...
Removed the asinine phrase "though generally vegetarian" from the sentence "two species of chimpanzee, though generally vegetarian, are known to eat the brains of monkeys to obtain fat in their diet." If they eat monkey brains, they're not vegetarians. And vegetarian isn't the appropriate term anyway. If it was applicable here, the correct term would be herbivorous.
[edit] Not verifiable enough to be in the article itself
When I was younger my father (Karl Matheuszik) was a union rep for the International Association Of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Vancouver, BC, Canada. One of his co-workers, a fellow union rep and family friend named Melvin Woods, told me about this legend. Mel was originally from Texas, and before settling in Canada had traveled the world as a professional negotiator of sorts for various companies. He refused to elaborate on the details, but claimed he had seen the eating of a live monkey brain in Bangkok during the 70s. He described it as the most horrific thing he had ever walked in on. I remember it well because Mel was well known for strictly keeping to the truth and though I doubted him at the time his wife told me years later that he only talked about it rarely, and then only to verify that it was in fact true. -Ryan Matheuszik 11:02am, 14 September, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.83.11.163 (talk) 10:04, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Urban legend, not
Okay, I have seen two videos of this in real life (one in china). Here is the other: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Q0DYo3zPk. I cannot find the chinese video online. The claim that this is an urban legend has been removed as unreliable. TableManners 01:39, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
I noticed this as well, and Fixed it. Timbudtwo (talk) 10:13, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] source not reliable?
source number 10 ( http://maxent.org/ch/monkey_brains_ad.html ) has a disclaimer on the top that says it is from a hong kong tabloid. is that a reliable source? Robin Chen (talk) 03:57, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
