In one of the strangest dinner party confessions to hit the internet, a man has revealed that he once served tacos made from his own amputated leg to a group of curious friends.
The anonymous Reddit user, who said he doesn’t want to be “known as that weird cannibal guy”, shared the details of the unusual meal in a now-archived post, claiming that 10 of his friends knowingly and consensually joined him in eating the meat from his lower leg.
The story began in June 2016, when the man was hit by a car while riding his motorcycle. The accident sent him flying into a wooded area and left his foot so badly damaged it couldn’t be saved. Doctors eventually amputated the limb.
Before the surgery, the Redditor arranged to keep the amputated foot, signing the necessary hospital paperwork and leaving the facility with it sealed in a red biohazard bag.
At first, he had more ornamental plans for his lost limb, hoping to preserve it as a freeze-dried keepsake or even have it taxidermied into a quirky piece of home decor. But when those ideas proved either too costly or too strange for professionals to take on, he pivoted.
Recalling a long-running hypothetical conversation among his circle of friends – “Would you ever try human meat if it was ethically sourced?” – he decided to make the offer real.
“Remember how we always talked about how, if we ever had the chance to ethically eat human meat, would you do it?” he asked them, per the Reddit post. “Well, I’m calling you on that. We doing this or what?”
Ten friends said yes.
Once the foot was home, the group inspected it with morbid curiosity.
“It didn’t feel like a part of me anymore,” the host said. “It felt more like an object. There was no emotional connection.”
A chef within the group took on the task of preparing the meal. The meat was marinated overnight with lime juice, onions, and peppers before being cooked into what they described as “shin fajita tacos.” The dinner was rounded out with apple strudel, puff pastry quiches, fruit tarts, and gin lemonade punches.
As the guests gathered around the table, anticipation gave way to awkward silence.
“There was this queasy moment. We all looked at each other like, ‘We doing this, right? We’re doing this.’”
According to the group, the tacos tasted “like buffalo, but chewier, super beefy and a little fatty.”
For the host, the dinner was more than a macabre stunt—it was symbolic.
“It felt like a way to reclaim what had happened. We shared this unique experience, and for me, it helped close the lid on a painful chapter.”
Asked how he felt ethically about consuming his own flesh, and serving it to others, he remained unapologetic. “Waste not, want not. Everyone consented. As far as I know, they’re all still cool with it. It’s a fun, weird thing.”
Surprisingly, no laws were broken. While cannibalism is broadly taboo, the United States has no federal law explicitly banning it. Because the meal was consensual, privately arranged, and didn’t involve grave-robbing or murder, it was legally permissible, if ethically unnerving.
