Here in Uruguay they still eat cow-brains in the countryside.  I've tried it, didn't care for it at all.

Brains seems like chitlins', one of the foods you either love or hate.

Quote from: CRKrueger;818759Yeah, you can't "de-nerve" meat.  If the animal has it, you're probably ingesting some prions, but it take a real long time to express, but once it does...bye bye, 100% fatality I believe, Butcher can check me on that.  Also there's no way you can treat meat to kill prions that will leave the food edible.  The good news is, it's very very hard to cross species lines, because the proteins have to be near exact in order to have the prions induce the mal-folding in other species.  Even going from Mad Cow to Creutzfeld-Jakob isn't easy.  That's why cannibalism is a proven vector in cows and people - the proteins are exact going from cow to cow or human to human.

Correct on both counts. CJD (including vCJD) is uniformly fatal, as are all prion diseases, and yeah, though the prion protein (PrP) exists on all mammals, it's not particularly conserved so it took a fair bit of mutation to become infective from sheep (scrapie) to cows (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a.k.a. mad cow disease) to humans (vCJD).

I think this thread is lamentably thin on actual stuff that's usable in a game, so here are some ideas:

- If you eat a captured warrior of a hostile tribe, you eat a tiny part of that tribe's ghost, as well. Do it enough times, and the hostile god will be nibbled into powerlessness while yours takes over.

- Two allied tribes will agree to cordially each others' members when they die peacefully. Eventually, the two gods will intermingle to create a new, third divinity, and the two tribes will merge.

- Eat enough men (without sharing), and ghouls will become less hostile to you. Eat more, they will become entirely indifferent. Eat even more, and they will occasionally heed your commands. Eat a hundred men, consuming all of them entirely and alone, and by sheer force of blasphemy you will be able to raise them as a nocturnal horde in new, ghastly bodies to wreak havoc on the world.

- Eat another man's brain, and the intermingling of his brain tissue with yours will render you both immune to all  psionic effects and unable to use psionics yourself.

- Eat enough brains, and the Mind Flayers will start hunting you down. Keep at it while evading or fending them off, and eventually, having earned their respect, you will be allowed to join them in a new, glorious body.

- Eat enough strange fish, kuo-toa, mermen, tritons and the like, and the Aboleth will start hunting you down, etc...

- Paladins/clerics/cultist of the cannibal god can eat a dead man's eyes and see his last moments if life; eat his brains and learn something they knew.

- The cold, hard ground is a bad place to be after death, and the afterworld is a joyless place. Being eaten by a friend will delay your journey there as long as you continue living in him, or anyone who eats him in turn, or eats his eater, etc..

- Eat a man who died in a fire, and fire will not harm you on one occasion. Eat someone who drowned, and one time you will not drown. Eat someone who was hacked apart in battle, a killing blow will be turned. Etc..