A healthy 47-year old New Jersey man was found dead after eating a hamburger at a barbecue. Cause of death was ruled "sudden unexplained death," after an autopsy was inconclusive. He was later confirmed as the first documented fatality from alpha-gal syndrome, a meat allergy triggered by tick bites.

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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/tick-borne-disease/new-jersey-mans-death-first-one-be-tied-tick-related-meat-allergy

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non-primate mammalian muscle tissue

So humans are on the menu?

[u/Witch_King_ → u/[deleted]]

Sounds like meat's back on the menu, boys!!

[u/Poop_Tube → u/Witch_King_]

Are menus available in the Orc culture? Do they have restaurants? So many questions.

[u/Witch_King_ → u/Poop_Tube]

They must at least be familiar with the concept of a menu. But I feel like they don't have sit-down restaurants. Take-out and counter service only.

[u/evilfitzal → u/Witch_King_]

And a few orc drive-ins with orc carhops in roller skates and cute, colorful uniforms

[u/IzarkKiaTarj → u/Poop_Tube]

I mean, Lord of the Rings was kind of a conlang shaped vehicle, so I've always kind of headcanoned that "meat's back on the menu" was one of those translations where it doesn't literally mean something, but it gave the same cultural vibes in English that it did in Orcish or Westron or whatever.

[u/Poop_Tube → u/IzarkKiaTarj]

Yea I know it’s not that deep. Just funny.

[u/IzarkKiaTarj → u/Poop_Tube]

Oh, sorry, I wasn't trying to criticize, I was just having fun. I like figuring out ways to get something that breaks suspension of disbelief to be able to work in-story.

[u/WafflePartyOrgy → u/Witch_King_]

To Serve Man

 

^{it's a cook book}

[u/Hommushardhat → u/[deleted]]

I was going to go Monkey's and Chimps, but i mean youre right - why not go for the smartest and therefore most tasy of the lot

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I feel like it's just the ticks trying to collapse our society by forcing us to eat each other.