Best Cheeseburger on the Island?

[Mike]

The pantorilla de bebe (grilled child's calf muscle) and estofado de techici (dog stew)

Say what? Okay dog stew is one thing, but a child's calf muscle??????

 

[JFS]

I'll make you the best cheesburgr on the island....if not my girlfriend will no problem.

 

[El Graduado]

Say what? Okay dog stew is one thing, but a child's calf muscle??????

Most people don't know (or just don't want to believe) that the Maya usually ate portions of their sacrificial victims. Most of those victims were young children. An archaeologist friend of mine is studying the over 2,500 bones of sacrificial victims from the sacred cenote at Chichen Itza and says over 79 percent of the victims were between the ages of 3 and 9 when they were killed. Most of the bones that were thrown into the cenote after the ceremony had butcher marks on them, showing how the flesh had been cut away with obsidian blades. Both Peter Martyr and Bishop Diego de Landa wrote very early accounts of the Maya eating these selected, special parts of the victim's bodies. Children's biceps, thigh and calf muscles were especially prized and went to the elite. The rest of the meat went to the middle and lower classes. Here is an image of a child stretched out on the sacrificial altar before being dispatched by the Nacom, or executioner-priest. It is from a Maya vase.

 

[Mike]

nasty nasty nasty!

 

[DjDiverDan]

Shades of W.C. Fields -- "I like children - fried."

 

[cvchief]

nasty nasty nasty!

Typically Xenophobia, judging other cultures by your own. Until you have lived it, don't judge.

EG, is any record of kid hamburgers? Just to keep us topical.

 

[DjDiverDan]

Actually, Jonathan Swift offers a number of options for cooking children in A Modest Proposal. No real recipes, though.

 

[Mike]

Typically Xenophobia, judging other cultures by your own. Until you have lived it, don't judge.

EG, is any record of kid hamburgers? Just to keep us topical.

I know, judge, judge, judge...

...okay get me a kid's calf on rye with a side of lady fingers and let me see what I've been missing.

 

[DjDiverDan]

Mike, eating Lady Fingers as a side is uncouth. Everyone knows that Lady Fingers must be soaked in coffee and a flavorful liquor and layered into a Tiramisu.

 

[El Graduado]

EG, is any record of kid hamburgers? Just to keep us topical.

Nope. They didn't have bread, so I guess they would have needed to make salbutes or panuchos.

Sorry about the thread hijack. I often get carried away when it comes to CZM history...