Dec 28, 2015
#1548: “In the mountainous districts of northeastern Burma, a peculiar form of hospitality known as perah was practiced until the mid-twentieth century. Whenever an enemy was killed in battle, the blood was drained from his body, poured into a special bamboo reed, and set out in the open air to dry. When the victorious warrior wanted to treat friends and visitors to a great delicacy, he cracked open these reeds and allowed them to dine on the congealed blood.”
Not plausible.
Carl Lumholtz wrote a book about cannibals that included this anecdote. But other anthropologists ignored his work since he had no respect for the native people he was studying.
That said, many countries in Asia eat congealed animals’ blood.