Not that I am an authority on the history of the condiment that dare not speak its name, but I'm pretty sure eating enemies was common in New Guinea until pretty recently.
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From: Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com>
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I wasn't asking about that (where your point seems rather obvious.) I was
just curious as to the factual provenance of Engels' (I meant
Engels') historical assertion that "before slavery, warriors simply killed
their captives! And in even more primitive times - they ATE each other!" Was
this sort of thing widely believed by educated people at the time? &c.
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