I’m so tired of the way suspicious meat is always human meat like for once I just want to be surprised. Let it be something else I’m so tired of it being human meat
Look I love horror I’m a big fan of it but guys. It’s been overdone. At this point when I reach a point in a story where the meat starts being suspicious I roll my eyes because we all already know it’s just some guy. Mystery meat could be so much more why won’t we let it be more
Oh my steak is a guy? Yawn. Boring. That’s every steak in horror.
Give me meat that just spawns randomly in your fridge. Meat that has no clear origin. Where is it from? We don’t know. What kind of meat is it? No clue. It’s mystery meat (non human (as far as we’re aware of)). That’s already a bit scarier if only thanks to not knowing how hygenic it is
Give me horror meat that isn’t human bt has it’s horror rooted in reality. Give me parasite pork that takes over your brain functions. Give me fucking prion disease at this point I’ll take it. I’m so starved for mystery meat where the twist ISN’T that it’s human c'mon people we can do better than this
Give me meat that IS genetically human but can’t be matched to anyone’s DNA!!! Where the fuck is it from?? We don’t know!! Scary!!!
Oh people keep disappearing but hey at least the food is really good so that’s something right? Womp womp you’re eating a guy. Boring. Been there done that. Give me something new
Give me a guy who works in a slaughterhouse who swears on his life he’s killed the exact same cow every week for the past 6 months and every time it gets harder to pull the trigger as it looks him in the eyes like it knows him
you go over to your friend’s house and he cooks two chewy, bland, rectangular cuts of meat. Not pork, definitely not beef… maybe venison. In the morning you wake up and go to the kitchen to find he’s taken off the cover plate of the light switch by the sink and he’s carving out a neat rectangle of the flesh behind it.
Or how about “people keep disappearing but this food is really good”, HOWEVER the food in question isn’t anything resembling meat. If you can come up with a scenario where “eating a vegan salad” is somehow “consuming human flesh”, then you’ve earned the right to use that trope.
And I don’t mean “the plants were fertilized by human corpses”, that’s boring and also not really that horrific; I mean “somehow this cucumber slice is a genetic match to the third victim”.