Meanings
- euphemisticidiomaticuncountableHuman flesh.
They still play chess, but they no longer eat "long pork".
1942, Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, Return to Malaya, page 3693 more examples
[…] the doctor still seemed to share the sort of creepiness I felt at the sight of a live nigger who had actually eaten long pork.
1896 October, Maxwell Gray, “An Old Song”, in Atalanta, volume X, number 1, London, E.C.: Marshall, Russell & Co., Ltd., page 11Cannibals do not eat "long pork" because they are short of animal food but in order to possess the courage of those they devour. For example, a man like Peter Jackson or John L. Sullivan would have been greatly in demand.
1929, Oscar Asche, his life, page 50From the back of the bar, from the man with the huge pot belly, came a sound like a cannibal might make if he was choking on long pork, "Ga gobba. Ga gobba."
2005, Jim Christy, The redemption of Anna Dupree, page 145Synonyms: long pig, the other white meat, man-meat
Synonyms & antonyms
nounHuman flesh.
Origin
Reportedly coined because cannibals attest that human meat tastes like pork.
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