Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
:

> On Fri 09 Sep 2005 04:24:01p, Tara wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> Rural Southerners (USA) of serveral generations ago would put a dab
>> of brain in the mouth of a newborn baby to insure it would be smart.
>>
>> Tara
>>
>>
>
> Aren't there some tribes (somewhere) that eat the brains of their
> enemies?
>

Yes, dangerous diet, though..

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/kuru/kuru.htm

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia