Dutch TV Hosts Eat Each Other's Flesh

BY LAUREN ZIMA

There's a whole meaning to the term 'you've got a friend in me.' Two Dutch TV broadcaster pals ate each other's flesh on TV Wednesday.

The show, called Guinea Pigs, features Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno as they take on weird challenges. The latest is a Silence of the Lambs-style task; each presenter had a piece of his flesh surgically removed -- Storm from his backside, Zeno from his abdomen. Here's a promotional spot:

... and in front of a studio audience, a cook fried up the two pieces of human -- and each man ate a piece of the other. The Periscope Post calls the stunt "disgusting."

"Just when you thought reality television producers couldn't sink much lower in the taste stakes in search of a ratings spike ... "

But as shallow or gross as the meal might have been -- was it legal? The Daily Mail adds more meat to the story.

"They insist that their stunt was entirely legal as both entered into the cannibalistic pact voluntarily. A lawyer advised the programme's producers that while cannibalism is not itself against the law, the presenters or the surgeon who operated on them could run in to legal difficulties."

And, since this is believed to have been a television first, the lingering question for the two is.... how does human flesh taste? Storm spoke with ABC News about the taste test, and says the possible pallete pleaser was worth the pain.

"Nothing is really that special when you're talking about the taste of the meat ... But it is weird to look into the eyes of a friend when you are chewing on his belly. ...It was just a few centimeters of meat ... And now I have a good story about that scar."

If only they'd had some fava beans and a nice chianti. Still, DutchNews points out that there might be a reason to question the cannibalism.

"In the Netherlands, opinion is divided about whether the presenters actually do eat human flesh or whether the trailer is a hoax. In 2007, BNN staged a tv reality show which centred on people competing for a dying woman's kidneys. That show turned out to be a hoax aimed at raising awareness for kidney patients.
Producers of the show maintain that it was all real.

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[HereComesTheStorm33]

Why is this so relevant seriously? Definitely not normal but there are worst problems in the world that need to be solved. Let them eat each other if they want to lol

[kamiarkamrani]

i know a good psychiatrist to introduce them !

[NRfun]

I'm proud to be dutch! These guys are awesome! XD What's everybuddy whining about! They both agreed to it, didn't they.

[pmvdmeulen]

This was real. But not shocking... two television hosts that eat a piece of meat. Who cares if it's from a cow, pig, human..... pigs are humans too! ;-) And some humans are pigs, but that's another story. Anyway we should respect more where meat comes from. Nowadays a lotttt of meat gets thrown away and animals have died in vain. Maybe we would have respected it more if it was from another human... someones brrother/sister/mother. However... this was real.. and worth the ten minutes to watch it.

[ginipiglover2002]

I wish I could eat my friend...

[screwface1011]

@AnonymousHero2013 Now repeat that stupid statement back to yourself and see if it makes any sense. And also, which is worst, eating somebody because it's fun or because you need to stay alive?

Let me make myself clear.......white people are fucking.......insane.

[AnonymousHero2013]

@screwface1011

hmm? we do this for fun, blacks do it for real

[gabyatcocosplash]

I prefer missionaries, but never boil a friar

[kelss123123]

Respect, ahaha.

I am Dutch and I think it's kind of Funny :P

I've got respect for them!

Valerio and Dennis!

[qq378]

They are so sick even though its not against the law , i still find it digusting .

[screwface1011]

white people are fuckin' insane.