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Tom Cruise To Eat Katie Holmes' Placenta
News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:18 AM EDT
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guess it might be alright with a nice red wine.
18 April 2006
Cruise to eat nutritious placenta
Hollywood actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise is planning to eat Katie Holmes' placenta.
It is the latest in a series of strange revelations by the 43-year-old 'Mission: Impossible' star about the child he is expecting with fiancée Katie Holmes.
Cruise told GQ magazine: "I'm gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there."
Cruise has also claimed he knew that Katie Holmes was pregnant before she told him.
He has also defended the Scientology belief that women should give birth in silence.
"It's really about respecting the woman. It's not about her not screaming," he told GQ.
Cruise plans to marry 27-year-old Holmes in the summer. He said earlier this month that their baby was due "any day now".
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{"commentId":99323,"authorDomain":"purplerose"}
This is just sick.
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- 3 votes
#1 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:45 AM EDT{"commentId":99659,"authorDomain":"wolfanoz"}
The question is raw, grilled, or fried.
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":99839,"authorDomain":"wbrianwhite"}
I think blended into a nice placenta smoothie would be nice. Let's see, some recipes:
Roast Placenta
1-3lb fresh placenta (must be no more than 3 days old) 1 onion 1 green or red pepper (green will add colour) 1 cup tomato sauce 1 sleeve saltine crackers 1 tspn bay leaves 1 tspn black pepper 1 tspn white pepper 1 clove garlic (roasted and minced)
Placenta Cocktail: Ingredients:
1/4 cup fresh, raw placenta 8oz V-8 juice 2 ice cubes 1/2 cup carrotMethod: blend at high speed for 10 seconds. Serve. A tasty thirst quencher!
Placenta Lasagne: Ingredients:
1 fresh, ground, or minced placenta, prepared as above 2 tblspns olive oil 2 sliced cloves garlic 1/2 tspn oregano 1/2 diced onion 2 tblspns tomato paste, or 1 whole tomatoMethod: use a recipe for lasagne and substitute this mixture for one layer of cheese. Quickly sauté all the ingredients in olive oil. Serve. Enjoy!
Placenta Spaghetti Bolognaise: Ingredients:
1 fresh placenta, prepared as above 1 tblspn butter 1 large can tomato puree 2 cans crushed pear tomatoes 1 onion 2 cloves garlic 1 tblspn molasses 1 bay leaf 1 tblspn rosemary 1 tspn each of: salt, honey, oregano, basil, and fennelMethod:
Cut the placenta meat into bite-sized pieces, then brown quickly in the butter and olive oil. Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 1-1.5 hours. Serve. Yummy!
Anyone who feels like regurgitating should visit this site full of delightful recipes and charming pictures.
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- 8 votes
{"commentId":99857,"authorDomain":"mdespard"}
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- 9 votes
{"commentId":100176,"authorDomain":"japhiah"}
What about placenta polenta?
{"commentId":100176,"threadId":"32249","contentId":"169660","authorDomain":"japhiah"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":99337,"authorDomain":"katyggls"}
This is just insane. Scientology is insane. I'm usually all about religious tolerance, but there's just no way to defend this.
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- 8 votes
#2 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:59 AM EDT{"commentId":99360,"authorDomain":"smallworldpodcast"}
Have a little tolerance. Catholics, for example, eat the body of Christ and drink the blood of Christ on a regular basis. Rabbis, I believe, suck the blood from the baby during the bris. What's a little placenta among family?
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":99409,"authorDomain":"katyggls"}
I don't know about Rabbis, but being born a Catholic, it's not literally the blood of Christ, despite the doctrine of transubstantiation, which is a little too involved to explain. And like I said, I'm actually a very tolerant person, I just find this unbearably squicky. Tolerance has limits.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":99634,"authorDomain":"fawnshore"}
Catholics, for example, eat the body of Christ and drink the blood of Christ on a regular basis.
Yes but in reality these are crackers and wine, not (erp) real people parts.
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":99661,"authorDomain":"dil"}
Rabbis, I believe, suck the blood from the baby during the bris.
According to Wikipedia, this practice from Haredi and Hasidic circles (both Orthodox) is/was "solely to prevent danger to the infant ["much in the same fashion as medical science once prescribed for snakebite"] and ... was not a required part of the circumcision ceremony."
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":100182,"authorDomain":"fennec"}
I don't know about Rabbis, but being born a Catholic, it's not literally the blood of Christ, despite the doctrine of transubstantiation, which is a little too involved to explain.
Actually, it is. Even if it doesn't taste that way, or look that way, or feel that way or digest that way. Consult your local priest and your Catechism to avoid heresy, please, if you still wish to remain a Catholic.... thanks.
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{"commentId":100399,"authorDomain":"jmack"}
The point, Fennec, is that while theologically the doctrine of transubstantiation states that the literal body and blood of Christ are consumed, they are still wafers and wine. Cruise is talking about literally eating the actual placenta. Wee bit of difference there.
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Comment collapsed by the community{"commentId":99407,"authorDomain":"larrywright"}
This is the most bizzare thing I've seen.
Tom's gone beyond "I'm in a weirdo cult" and into "I'm a freak with no ability to be rational". I suspect he's insane.
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- 4 votes
#4 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:57 AM EDT{"commentId":99421,"authorDomain":"smallworldpodcast"}
Check out my seed about breeding the red heiffer and the coming apocalypse if you really want a load of bat guano about religious whackiness in our country.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":99787,"authorDomain":"wantedcreative"}
I don't believe anyone said anything that compared Tom Cruise to Bush but it's ok we get it you don't like Bush good job mission accomplished.
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":99974,"authorDomain":"wintermute1"}
wanted.creative said
I don't believe anyone said anything that compared Tom Cruise to Bush but it's ok we get it you don't like Bush good job mission accomplished.
Perhaps Tom said "mission accomplished" once he was finished with his MEAL! Washed down with a glass of chiante.
Yikes!
Anyway - this should do as the mandatory comparison of Tom Cruise to Bush.
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{"commentId":99419,"authorDomain":"miasma"}
I heard he's also dining on some fava beans and a nice chianti. But that could just be a rumor...
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- 12 votes
#5 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:02 AM EDT{"commentId":99469,"authorDomain":"ugs"}
I don't understand why people are objecting to him eating the placenta. What is the problem? It's practiced by many couples around the world regardless of their religion.
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- 1 vote
#6 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:57 AM EDT{"commentId":99519,"authorDomain":"Big-Nick"}
Cruise doesn't have the stomach to eat the placenta. I think we should place bets on whether he will or not. 5 to 1 odds that he does not eat it.
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#7 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:49 PM EDT{"commentId":99655,"authorDomain":"dil"}
You want the placenta? You can't handle the placenta!
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- 11 votes
{"commentId":99587,"authorDomain":"aronoff"}
WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!!!!
Listen, I am in no means a fan of Cruise. But this information is wrong apparently.
On a interview on Primetime last friday he and Diane Sawyer talked about this remark and he said that he did say it, but that he was joking. Way to take things out of context! When people start taking things out of context, then the news isn't really real and loses all sense of validity.
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- 15 votes
#8 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:39 PM EDT{"commentId":99669,"authorDomain":"eide"}
I was looking for a comment like this, one that could tell me "Cruise is insane, but not that insane".
On the other hand, I'm a little disappointed...
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{"commentId":99819,"authorDomain":"nickford"}
Way to take things out of context! When people start taking things out of context, then the news isn't really real and loses all sense of validity.
My question is why the hell is this news anyway? The antics of one obviously mentally deficient person are not news to me.
{"commentId":99819,"threadId":"32249","contentId":"169660","authorDomain":"nickford"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":99603,"authorDomain":"dcanizar"}
How about some fava beans, and a nice chianti?
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- 3 votes
#9 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:58 PM EDT{"commentId":99688,"authorDomain":"miasma"}
copycat
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{"commentId":99625,"authorDomain":"thefilipino"}
W...T...F...???
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#10 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:24 PM EDT{"commentId":99632,"authorDomain":"luisf"}
Tom Cruise seriously needs a Psych eval.
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- 2 votes
#11 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:34 PM EDT{"commentId":100187,"authorDomain":"fennec"}
No, no, Cruise is a Scientologist! Psychiatrists are evil, see?
In 1966, Hubbard declared war on psychiatry, telling Scientologists "We want at least one bad mark on every psychiatrist in England, a murder, an assault, or a rape or more than one." He committed the Church to eradicating psychiatry in 1969, announcing "Our war has been forced to become 'To take over absolutely the field of mental healing on this planet in all forms."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology#Scientology_and_psychiatry
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":99635,"authorDomain":"rocky21743"}
This is false. Check your sources. people(s). :)
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- 3 votes
#12 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:34 PM EDT{"commentId":99641,"authorDomain":"fawnshore"}
Katie Holmes is either a ruthless gold digger or a complete dingbat. If she is a gold digger, she's really earning the money!
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- 4 votes
#13 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:38 PM EDT{"commentId":99656,"authorDomain":"wolfanoz"}
Seems as though this was meant as a joke and probably knew it would be taken out of context.
This goes without saying that he does seem to have a few bolts loose.
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- 2 votes
#14 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:54 PM EDT{"commentId":99657,"authorDomain":"iteachyoucomputers"}
@smallworld
Rabbis, I believe, suck the blood from the baby during the bris.
Please don't comment about rituals you have no knowledge of. THIS IS NOT A PART OF A TRADITIONAL BRIS!!
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- 2 votes
#15 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:55 PM EDT{"commentId":99975,"authorDomain":"wintermute1"}
Good to know!
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{"commentId":99660,"authorDomain":"robknight"}
{"commentId":99665,"authorDomain":"cjlewis"}
PEOPLE! PEOPLE! HOLD ON TO YOUR HORSES
Read this before you comment...Please..do not destroy the integrity of news.
{"commentId":99665,"threadId":"32249","contentId":"169660","authorDomain":"cjlewis"}
- 3 votes
#17 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:05 PM EDT{"commentId":99678,"authorDomain":"paradiso108"}
Maybe I'm off here, but I think that the integrity of the news is already compromised by the fact that people care at all what some actor (an actor for God's sake) is going to do when his baby is born. In other words, it is not the truth value of this article that is destroying journalism, but the subject matter itself.
My point is that, true or false, I don't think this is news, especially not of the variety that fits the tag line of this website: Get Smarter Here.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":99696,"authorDomain":"janeway77"}
Don't you know that Cruise has caused millions (MILLIONS, I say again!) to run to the church of Scientology after witnessing the calm and reasoned life it has given Tom Cruise.
Not!
What do you expect from a religion created by a Sci-Fi author that is based on the notion that we are all victimized by disembodied space aliens? This whole story gets more bizarre as it goes along.
{"commentId":99696,"threadId":"32249","contentId":"169660","authorDomain":"janeway77"}
- 1 vote
#18 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:32 PM EDT{"commentId":99700,"authorDomain":"mudah"}
Eating a placenta is not that uncommon and doesn't have anything to do with Scientology. Also, Scientology is not a religion, so religious tolerance has nothing to do with it.
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#19 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:33 PM EDT{"commentId":99724,"authorDomain":"vistago"}
I dunno if this is true, but if it is he's just so nonchalant about it...
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#20 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:49 PM EDT{"commentId":99731,"authorDomain":"edwards"}
This is one of the few things that still irks me about Newsvine. I seeded this 24 hours ago but this one makes the front page. Oh well.
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- 3 votes
#21 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:54 PM EDT{"commentId":99754,"authorDomain":"zaki"}
I must agree that I hate when I seed a story first, yet another person seeding the same story gets front page.
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{"commentId":99739,"authorDomain":"rimuladas"}
I think this thread should be in the world weekly news.
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#22 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:58 PM EDT{"commentId":100947,"authorDomain":"scr"}
hrh, oh yeah. right next to "chinese admit : yes we all look the same" : )
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{"commentId":99741,"authorDomain":"zrc"}
I think it speaks to Tom's credibility and the public perception of his sanity (I'm going out on a limb here and believing that most readers think this to be the proposition of someone who is not 'completely there') that some 'sources' are jumping on it as though it was not said jokingly.">
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#23 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:59 PM EDT{"commentId":99748,"authorDomain":"knox"}
If this were a forum thread I'd lock it.
{"commentId":99748,"threadId":"32249","contentId":"169660","authorDomain":"knox"}
- 1 vote
#24 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:01 PM EDT{"commentId":99763,"authorDomain":"wolfanoz"}
Or Tom may have Newsvine shut down.
{"commentId":99763,"threadId":"32249","contentId":"169660","authorDomain":"wolfanoz"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":99749,"authorDomain":"danish"}
Perhaps you should say: "... a nice Chianti" rather than "red wine". Isn't this a type of cannibalism?
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- 1 vote
#25 - Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:01 PM EDT{"commentId":99799,"authorDomain":"lindelof"}
no. the placenta is often offered to the parents to use for various reasons. some people eat it and some plant it in their garden. it is an organ lining that is disposed of once the baby is born, this is far from cannibalism.
and its funny to see how gullible people are when it comes to tom cruise. he has the media exactly where he wants them. the jokes on you.
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{"commentId":99804,"authorDomain":"danish"}
Oh, I didn't realize Tom was just playing for attention. This makes me feel so used... Gotta go, I'm having a friend over for dinner
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- 1 vote
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