Tom Cruise To Eat Katie Holmes' Placenta

The question is raw, grilled, or fried.

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 carrot

Method: 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 tomato

Method: 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 fennel

Method:

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!

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He was kidding.

What about placenta polenta?

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?

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You want the placenta? You can't handle the placenta!

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...

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.

copycat

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

Good to know!

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.

I must agree that I hate when I seed a story first, yet another person seeding the same story gets front page.

hrh, oh yeah. right next to "chinese admit : yes we all look the same" : )

Or Tom may have Newsvine shut down.

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.

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