Strange Meat : what is it? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Wed May 11, 2011 12:22 am

Maybe Strange Meat isn't PURE Human Flesh, maybe it's Human Flesh mixed with any other meat the person who "processed" it had on hand, to make it... go further. "Hm... I only have enough Human Flesh to make 10 units, but if I mix it with that Ghoul I found on the roadside, and those rotting Mole Rats, and two or three Bark Scorpions, maybe a Bloatfly or two... voila! 30 units. Now off to sell it to those unsuspecting NCR and North Vegas rubes!"

I think there's an undocumented Strange Meat Processing Plant somewhere. They're making a killing.

» Tue May 10, 2011 8:58 pm

IT'S PEOPLE!!

» Tue May 10, 2011 5:47 pm

Honestly guys, what gives? It is meat, and it is strange. It may be cow, it may be your grandma, it may be your pet hamster.

People saying things like "Obsidian messed up by putting strange meat in the game and not making it clear if it was human meat or not". What? It is perfectly valid English.

It is simply meat of unknown origins. Hence the name. Strange. Meat.

» Wed May 11, 2011 2:49 am

Honestly guys, what gives? It is meat, and it is strange. It may be cow, it may be your grandma, it may be your pet hamster.

People saying things like "Obsidian messed up by putting strange meat in the game and not making it clear if it was human meat or not". What? It is perfectly valid English.

It is simply meat of unknown origins. Hence the name. Strange. Meat.

It could be Cram out of the can.

» Tue May 10, 2011 6:22 pm

It's the same stuff they use at McDonalds I think.

that answers it.

strange meat is Rat skin

» Tue May 10, 2011 9:05 pm

Honestly guys, what gives? It is meat, and it is strange. It may be cow, it may be your grandma, it may be your pet hamster.

People saying things like "Obsidian messed up by putting strange meat in the game and not making it clear if it was human meat or not". What? It is perfectly valid English.

It is simply meat of unknown origins. Hence the name. Strange. Meat.

72% of votes say it IS human flesh, always, 100% sure

» Tue May 10, 2011 9:57 pm

Strange Meat is Human Flesh. Odd thing about it is where it turns up in New Vegas. I found it in Helios One and Hoover Dam. NCR are cannibals? :yuck:

» Tue May 10, 2011 4:16 pm

Strange Meat is Human Flesh. Odd thing about it is where it turns up in New Vegas. I found it in Helios One and Hoover Dam. NCR are cannibals? :yuck:

Maybe they are eating Legion corpse to prove how tough they are?

» Wed May 11, 2011 12:21 am

Maybe they are eating Legion corpse to prove how tough they are?

Possible, hopefully they don't eat to much or they will get the shakes.

» Wed May 11, 2011 12:51 am

Charelton Heston: "Strange meat is people!!! Strange meat is people!!!"

How is this even a debate, FO3 solved it with those inbred cannibals in Andale, Virginia. Not to mention the leather-armor clad man-hunters that you catch in the act of hunting it in random encounters.

» Tue May 10, 2011 9:25 pm

I voted 100% human meat, but it makes me wonder why they put both Human Flesh AND strange meat in the game. Is strange meat cooked Human Flesh?

» Wed May 11, 2011 2:01 am

calling it strange made me think that before i even found out thats what it was in 3. wasnt eatin it then, wont eat it now no matter what it is lol

» Wed May 11, 2011 1:39 am

I voted 100% human meat, but it makes me wonder why they put both Human Flesh AND strange meat in the game. Is strange meat cooked Human Flesh?

That's obvious, not all cannibals are open about their habits so they call their meat strange to throw off suspicion. :shifty: I mean I'm very disappointed in the gun runners with all that ordnance they should take the time to go out hunting every once and a while or buy what they need.

» Tue May 10, 2011 3:36 pm

Maybe Strange Meat isn't PURE Human Flesh, maybe it's Human Flesh mixed with any other meat the person who "processed" it had on hand, to make it... go further. "Hm... I only have enough Human Flesh to make 10 units, but if I mix it with that Ghoul I found on the roadside, and those rotting Mole Rats, and two or three Bark Scorpions, maybe a Bloatfly or two... voila! 30 units. Now off to sell it to those unsuspecting NCR and North Vegas rubes!"

I think there's an undocumented Strange Meat Processing Plant somewhere. They're making a killing.

So basically, Strange Meat is Spam with a bit less pork and a bit more person in it?

» Tue May 10, 2011 4:12 pm

I think it's human meat, but with the issue of some people like NCR troopers and maybe certain other people you wouldn't expect to be eating it having it lying around comes from the fact that it's not at all common knowledge what it is in-universe, so there has to be at least a few unwitting cannibals out there. This isn't to say that there aren't full blown cannibals runnin around, too. Those hunters in 3 are obviously sick individuals; same goes for Andale. But you really can't hold it against some characters that would probably be starving if it wasn't for that meat they didn't check the source of.

» Tue May 10, 2011 10:46 pm

ye theres quite abit in mick and ralphs..you just know those two are cannibals...look at the guns they sell,guess we know how they came across them

» Tue May 10, 2011 10:15 pm

ye theres quite abit in mick and ralphs..you just know those two are cannibals...look at the guns they sell,guess we know how they came across them

Maybe Mick and Ralph are the ones cleaning up all those thug bodies in Freeside?

» Wed May 11, 2011 2:40 am

Its a pie from Mrs Lovett pie shop

» Tue May 10, 2011 10:58 pm

Pretty good response - 263 members voted

Almost 80% voted for "Human Flesh - always and no doubt"

Note that voting for more than 1 choice was possible - I expected that people would choose 1 from answers 1, 2, or 3, and then maybe add a vote for 4 or 5. It must be that some people changed their vote, not realizing that the first choice still was selected, so in effect they cast votes for 2 selections from choices 1 - 3

» Tue May 10, 2011 11:09 pm

Do I believe strange meat is 100% human flesh, no I do not. Like Rivendell said earlier, I too believe that strange meat has some human in it. But is not 100% human, I would say maybe 25% at most. The rest made up of what ever the cook can get their hands on.
Know why cannibals love to eat fiends? Cause they get high off the flavor!

» Tue May 10, 2011 2:10 pm

Trench Coat is right - human flesh is 100% pure; strange meat is a "recePIE" (Content varies with cook, and volunteer). I however, selected '1' :/ But, now that I think of it, I only occasionally found nails and hair, so it couldn't have been pure anyhow

Oh, and there's that NPC you talk to who mentions a cook who used to sell some 'special' food, where people got shakes - the shakes you get from eating human flesh (so he says). And he ends the conversation with "and they found some unburied human remains in the basemant of his shop" (or something like that)

» Wed May 11, 2011 12:42 am

Do I believe strange meat is 100% human flesh, no I do not. Like Rivendell said earlier, I too believe that strange meat has some human in it. But is not 100% human, I would say maybe 25% at most. The rest made up of what ever the cook can get their hands on.
Know why cannibals love to eat fiends? Cause they get high off the flavor!

Well if you add "Hamburger Helper" to it, no, it isn't "pure" human flesh anymore. And I expect that the "Strange Meat Pies" have vegetables added as well as pie crust. Spices also, I wasn't saying that it is 100% pure

But - maybe a better way to state what the question means is: Does strange meat ALWAYS contain human flesh, always, 100% of the time

That is really what I intended, as some people seem to think that "Strange Meat" is sometimes NOT human flesh - no clue on when it is or isn't. This concept seems pretty illogical to me, hence this poll

» Wed May 11, 2011 1:03 am

Well if you add "Hamburger Helper" to it, no, it isn't "pure" human flesh anymore. And I expect that the "Strange Meat Pies" have vegetables added as well as pie crust. Spices also, I wasn't saying that it is 100% pure

But - maybe a better way to state what the question means is: Does strange meat ALWAYS contain human flesh, always, 100% of the time

That is really what I intended, as some people seem to think that "Strange Meat" is sometimes NOT human flesh - no clue on when it is or isn't. This concept seems pretty illogical to me, hence this poll

Well if you believe that strange meat only has some human in it, instead of being made fully from human, then at some point in time you would likely come across at least one that was human free. So I would have to say no, not all strange meat is made of people. Though most of it probably contains some type of human meat by-product.

» Wed May 11, 2011 3:10 am

I'm pretty sure it's Human flesh, but just in case, I steer well clear of it. Same with the canibal perk - "This sort of thing ain't my bag, baby."

» Tue May 10, 2011 6:04 pm

bump - any more votes out there??