OK, so yesterday proved that body parts don’t need to be sautéed to catch anyone’s attention (I did receive a  few emails with curious reactions to that opening of yesterday’s post), but it helps: 

A remarkably twisted sign of a mid-life crisis, Arwin Meiwes celebrated turning 40 by sautéing Bernd Jürgen Brandes’ penis with salt, vinegar and garlic and eating it on the Christmas Day of 2001. Then, he spent the following 10 months eating the rest of Bernd’s body.

Hardly surprising in the world of any, where the online dating opportunities are counted in hundreds of millions, Arwin and Bernd met on the internet, where Arwin hosted a website called “The Cannibal Café”. Like most of the thousands and thousands of blogs devoted to food and gastronomy, Arwin shared his culinary fantasies and desires – with the exception that they centered on human flesh. Anyone could share Arwin’s fantasies, and Bernd certainly did. Arwin videotaped their deadly dinner and soon anyone could watch it online.

Including the police. Arwin’s advertising for new dinner victims and the graphic illustrations of his last dinner soon caught their attention, and before long, the “Rothenburg Cannibal” was incarcerated. Whereas old-millennium cannibals could enjoy tens or even hundreds of meals before getting caught, blogarazzi-cannibal Meiwes was forced to settle for one. Bummer.

Guess what dinner Rammstein’s Mein Teil refers to…