Talk:Monkey brains

message: I am very skeptical of the claim that Chinese (or any people) traditionally ate monkey brains, especially the notion of eating live monkey's brains. I've noticed both here and in the Wikipedia article about "Monkeys in Chinese Culture" someone cites as evidence for this practice in Han Dynasty China an article by religious professor Holly Gayley. That article relies on writings of a contemporary Tibetan monk, Tsultrim Lodrö, published in his book Timely Advice (2004). I can't access that book, but one would have to know the author's sources to evaluate that assertion. Anti-Chinese propaganda is not unknown among Tibetans (for obvious reasons).11 Arlington (talk) 22:45, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed unreliable source 

message: The first reference claiming to cite the United Nations etc. is linking to an article from LA Times in February 25, 2003 By Richard C. Paddock which was then sent by mail from Ed Colijn on 02 Mar 2003 15:15:45 and reposted in the FORUM (!) Wildlife Trade Interest Group (wildtrade-vlc) from Vern Weitzel on 03 Mar 2003 08:34:52! This immediately needs to be deleted! RMR 92.77.66.249 (talk) 21:14, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Reference! 

message: Consideration for pop culture- In an early Wolverine issue Patch fought a bunch of thugs on a designer drug (Lightning I believe) that amped them up before it burned them out and killed them.  It was made from monkey brains and of course had no effect on Wolverine whatsoever- except to make him laugh.Jbk 19:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular culture Wolverine 

message: Would there be any danger of contracting a prion disease akin to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or mad cow from eating monkey brains? Pimlottc 15:31, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Danger of prion diseases? 

message: When I was younger my father (Karl Matheuszik) was a union rep for the International Association Of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Vancouver, BC, Canada. One of his co-workers, a fellow union rep and family friend named Melvin Woods, told me about this legend. Mel was originally from Texas, and before settling in Canada had traveled the world as a professional negotiator of sorts for various companies. He refused to elaborate on the details, but claimed he had seen the eating of a live monkey brain in Bangkok during the 70s. He described it as the most horrific thing he had ever walked in on. I remember it well because Mel was well known for strictly keeping to the truth and though I doubted him at the time his wife told me years later that he only talked about it rarely, and then only to verify that it was in fact true.  -Ryan Matheuszik 11:02am, 14 September, 2007  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.83.11.163 (talk) 10:04, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not verifiable enough to be in the article itself 

message: Okay, I have seen two videos of this in real life (one in china).  Here is the other:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Q0DYo3zPk.  I cannot find the chinese video online.  The claim that this is an urban legend has been removed as unreliable.  TableManners 01:39, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed this as well, and Fixed it. Timbudtwo (talk) 10:13, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This actually is just another famous example of an urban legend. There is absolutely no proof for any such custom. Maybe one or another psychotic person was inspired by the legend to actually follow the description given in fictional literature. But then there occur from time to time crimes, where the (mentally ill) criminal eats some of the flesh of his victim, which doesn't make eating of human flesh a part of American culture. As usual in such case the person who makes the claim has "just forgotten" the source or links to a video etc. which has been removed. I find it simply disgusting, how such unproven urban legends can find their way into Wikipedia!  --Vicki Reitta (talk) 10:19, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately this practice is far from an Urban Legend. There is such a restaurant in the Cholon district of Ho Chi Minh, which serves live monkey brain and at which I have personally witnessed such a scene. The most disgusting thing is not that such 'unproven urban legends can find their way onto Wikipedia' but that such events actually take place.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.69.162.127 (talk) 17:27, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no first hand knowledge of this practice, however I am pretty sure it happens.  Long before "Faces of Death" and movies that made this popular, I employed a number of asians in an overseas location.  We were in a remote place and without TV or Radio, we would spend hours talking in the evenings.  One of the people I employed told of how he ate live Monkey Brains.  I can still recall the conversation:   "They bring him.  Him be screaming and yelling.  They put him in a wood with a hole.  Him be looking 'round.  We cut off the top of the head.  Him be still moving.  We eat brains with spoon.  Him stop moving after one or two spoons.".  Other asians there affirmed that this was an unusual but not unknown meal and that it served to give the man power (of some sort -- I got the impression they meant sexual power).--Blue Tie (talk) 10:53, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: ...Right.  In any case, unless some reliable external source can be found documenting that it is not, in fact, an urban legend, urban legend it remains.  15:01, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

text: @Blue Tie:  Maybe those inscrutable Asians pulled your leg? Maikel (talk) 10:48, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you suggesting that Asian people have senses of humor?!?!  Mr JM  21:23, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

text:  * And then a skeleton popped out. That's how seriously I'm taking this conversation. --68.123.155.127 (talk) 22:09, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Either this video is a very, very well done fake or it is not an urban legend (warning: very graphic content): https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=53b_1474482415 . Sure, those people may all be complete deviants. Anything is possible. It only works in practice (talk) 19:08, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  On the Australian softporn site abbywinters.com there is an Indonesian model called Diah who confesses in one of her videos that the weirdest thing she had ever eaten was brain from a live monkey. She almost broke to tears while recounting it, she didn't look like joking or making things up at all. I won't provide a link to this video, you can easily find it yourself. However, on the Indonesian wikipedia version of this article there is a link to a source claiming that in Indonesia "perhaps most brutal of all is the treatment of the long-tail macaques. Some believe that eating the monkeys' brains can cure impotence. The practice has led to over-hunting, says ProFauna, which has campaigned against the slaughter. Some establishments serve macaque at a special table with a hole in the center. The monkey is tied up and the top of its skull cut open with one slice of a sharp knife. The animal, still alive, is placed under the table so its head protrudes like a bowl. Arrack, a powerful native alcohol, is sometimes poured into the skull and mixed with the brain." The link is https://web.archive.org/web/20050313024343/http://www.undp.org.vn/mlist/wildtrade/032003/post4.htm  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.24.11.129 (talk) 20:50, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

text: This is No Urban Legend at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.247.88.233 (talk) 16:23, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urban legend, not 

message: source number 10 ( http://maxent.org/ch/monkey_brains_ad.html ) has a disclaimer on the top that says it is from a hong kong tabloid. is that a reliable source? Robin Chen (talk) 03:57, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point.  Not a good source for wikipedia. TableManners U·T·C 04:51, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

text: That was Apple Daily, a newspaper, not a tabloid. --Tomchen1989 (talk) 08:14, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  source not reliable? 

message: Funny that the article lists the high fat content as one of the risks of eating monkey brains.  In most countries, where you're more at risk of mal- than overnutrition, a high fat content would be seen as beneficial. Maikel (talk) 10:40, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Warning: fattening

message: It is a well-known fact that monkey brains are eaten by tribes living in the Amazon jungle - I would like to add this to the 'Consumption' section of the article, however I cannot find something which would pass quality-wise. There are videos but right now I cannot find something in the way of proper information. Any tips? — Determined Soul (talk) 06:29, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for information - they eat monkey brains in the Amazon jungle 

message: It has more words than the article. 
And this article needs work.  There is not enough material.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.228.216.17 (talk) 05:28, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop culture is way too long 

message: heard about a variant where a live monkey's spine is severed paralizing it while they open the skull and scoop them fresh.  true/false?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.38.224.87 (talk) 00:56, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  eaten live? 

message: An article about eating monkey brains and the popular culture section has no mention of what is most likely the most famous popular culture reference, the chilled monkey brains from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.161.20.182 (talk) 09:20, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  A reference to the Indiana Jones scene you've mentioned has been  to the article along with sourced citations. —  Spintendo  02:46, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  popular culture 

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message: Eating monkey or Apr shows the cannibalistic nature of human Nittin Das (talk) 06:49, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
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message: Could anyone please tell me if in the opening section, "Barbados" should be "Barbadian"?
Thanks.--Thylacine24 (talk) 15:14, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
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