I have only played fallout 3 other than this, and going off that I have to assume its human meat like you find out in andale.

Human meat.

Yum!

Forbidden deliciousness.

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You too know of the Craving. Cannibals unite!

Damn, I thought this thread would solve the mystery of modified atmosphere packaging in supermarkets, a 4 weeks old piece of meat that still looks fresh, that's what I call strange meat :ahhh:

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See post a few above above that is response to Mc Donalds comment, has link to article on food not rotting

Your assuming human flesh is as bad as it could possibly be.. strange meat could be far far worse then human flesh...

i think i have a good idea, and have had my fair share lol... don't judge me, it's a post-apocalyptic wasteland for God's sake...

Strange Meat lowers your STR by 1 and has way less rads than Human Flesh.

Apart from that, they heal the same amount.

Doesn't explain the loss of Strength though, what items in Fallout 3/ New Vegas do they have that lower strength?.

Strange Meat is something that earns anyone who has it in/on their oven/stove, fridge, plate a bullet to the brain.

Seriously, whenever I'm looting anything and I find strange meat I end up hunting the owner down and feeding them a bullet sammich.

I killed everyone in Andale in FO3 because of it and I kill anyone who is in possession of it in NV.

Although, I do admit that on the direction of my 11 year old that I did at one point take the cannibal perk in FO3 and ate some people.....but they were all bad...I swear....but, since my dark days O have become a vegetarian and only eat animals that eat plants and don't talk to me with words and formed intelligent sentences.

Strange Meat in NV is one reason why I absolutely loath the Legion every time I come across Legion camps I can almost always find Strange Meat. Cottonwood Cove met their demise by way of the irradiated truck atop the cliff.

Now why don't they ever play that movie on TV? I can't remember the last time I saw that.

Nice reference btw.

The fridges in The Gray are of type "AndaleFridge" which will only EVER spawn strange meat.

I do believe that seals the deal, in the game files they're the exact same as the fridges of andale and we all KNOW what those are filled with.

Hopes and dreams? :vaultboy:

@Thread- Strange Meat is obviously left over meat from an Asian Restaraunt :laugh:

Toenail clippings, hair from the shower drain and meat-sauce.




But yeah... I think it's ghoul flesh.
That's why we don't see as many ghouls this time around.
They're being eaten by humans. :shocked:

I'd say that human flesh is used when you KNOW something is actual human flesh, while strange meat is used when they want to deny that it's human flesh, as in "No, we're totally not cannibals, definitinately not cannibals at all!" type denial. In any case, if it wasn't mean to be the same thing as the strange meat found in Fallout 3, which was implied to be human flesh, I doubt they'd call it by the same name.

Yes, I'd say that strange meat was human flesh in Fallout 3 and still is in New Vegas, and even if it's not human flesh, I wouldn't want to eat it. Would you want to eat something called "strange meat"? I mean, they won't even tell us what kind of meat it is! At least you know what you're eating when you eat radroach meat.

As for the abundance of it in the game, I'd guess it's just a mistake on Obsidian's part, although some instances where it can be found in places inhabited by known cannibals are likely intentional.



I don't know, considering how most people in the game treat cannibals, it would seem pretty hypocritical if eating human flesh was actually common place, even if it was for survival. Granted, maybe just eating people who are already dead would be treated differently from actually killing people for their meat, which seems to be what most cannibals do, but considering that cannibalism generally seems to be treated as much worth than just plain murder for other reasons, I doubt people would consider it okay just because they're already dead.

Besides, in terms of food, it would seem to me that finding normal edibal food would be much easier in New Vegas' environment than in the Capital Wasteland, since there's actually signs of agriculture in the Mojave, so if anything, I'd think cannibalism would be much less common in the Mojave than in the Capital Wasteland.

Strange meat:

• There are several pieces in the basemant of the Ultra-Luxe.

I think that point makes your argument rather hypocritical.

Remember the escorts you hire for the casino in Freeside? One told a story about a business rival who sold meat that no-one believed was human. So maybe Strange Meat is unidentified human flesh, treated in some way that the effects are different.

Or, there's a critter called 'the strange' that, like iguanas, squirrels and fancy lads, we never see.

Or, given the crunch time to produce a game using old assets, a few mistakes crept in.

Take your pick.

I think it is both options 1 and 3, that is in certain places it is deliberate (Legion, the Gray), and others it is an oversight/mistake (NCR)

I've killed every person or group of people I've come across that has been storing or keeping Strange Meat.


And now you're telling me there's a chance it was NOT human meat?


*Looks away while whistling innocently*

I eat it all the time, it's great! So what if it's human? People are so closed-minded these days.

Naw, it IS human flesh. Although it is possible that some people don't know it- but I say shoot 'em anyway: "Ignorance of the law is no excuse"

I would say along the line that it is human flesh, about 70% sure of it. Practically goes back in history that there were two type of Iguana-on-a-stick.

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