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Pretty soon, they would be mellified, that is, “he excretes honey (the urine and feces are entirely honey).”

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Here's a list of actually illegal foods including fugu, raw cheese, ortolan and, awesomely, a mellified man, a manmade dish popular in ancient Arabia.

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I'm suddenly getting lots of traffic from people searching for "mellified man."

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I'd try to say what mellified man is, but I can't put it as well as Roach.

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So, go pick up this book and read the part about mellified man or anything else.

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I opened up "Stiff"--which is a book about cadavers, as you can tell from the cover--to a chapter called "Eat Me"--which, as you can imagine, is about cannibalism--and read about a little medicinal concoction called "mellified man."

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