long pork en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Reportedly coined because cannibals attest that human meat tastes like pork.
Meanings
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(euphemistic, idiomatic, uncountable) Human flesh.
Cannibals 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 50:From 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 145:[…] 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 11:They still play chess, but they no longer eat "long pork".
1942, Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, Return to Malaya, page 369: