Cannibal salami

There was a joke going around Guelph back in the day. I don’t want to get into the particulars, but it suggested a link between Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance and the fact that there were several thriving salami makers in town at the time. By today’s standards it would be considered, among other things, an egregious  ethnic slur.

I’d mentioned the joke to the Farm Manager recently, because we’d watched the latest Hoffa movie, which was very good. That plot has a lot more plausibility than the salami story. But somehow we got into a discussion about cannibalism and stereotypes.

I took the view that one reason the salami story has no cred is because everybody knows Italians are too European to indulge in such barbarity. The only place you’d ever find such a thing is among some African tribes, I ventured.

The FM called me on that stereotype, as she should, but it got us interested enough to mount a google search. What an eye-opener! Yup, they indeed had cannibalism in the heart of Africa, but damn near everywhere else at one time or another, including the heart of Europe!

Obviously, the taboo against cannibalism is a social construct, and like all social constructs, is by definition a tool of the oppressor. 

As we await the Great Reset, that rapture wherein Klaus and the Billionaires free us from capitalism, let’s hope we are also set free from this archaic taboo.

We demand freedom!

WE DEMAND CANNIBAL SALAMI!!!