Placenta cake

Photo from Pass the Garum, which includes a recipe.   You can read more about placenta cakes at Neatorama or Wikipedia.

Lesson for the day: The Latin word placenta is derived from the Greek plakous ("flat") for thin or layered flat breads.  The placenta of mammalian pregnancy is so named from the perceived resemblance between its shape and that of a placenta cake.

You learn something every day.

And yes, you can find articles like I drank my fresh placenta in a smoothie... if you are so interested.

Addendum:  See also "Save Some Womb for Dessert" ("From the February 4, 1998, episode of TV Dinners, a cooking show that airs on Channel 4 in England.")

"Have a look in here. This is Rosie’s placenta. Waste not, want not. Have a smell. Isn’t it lovely? Lovely and fresh?... Initially, when Mary said that we were going to be eating placenta, I thought, Yech. But then when I thought about it I said, Okay, as long as it’s cooked in onions and gravy like a casserole. Then she said it was going to be a pâté and I thought, Brilliant. Brilliant. Really...."