A placenta, also called the afterbirth in English, is á or ÊËªÒµÔ in Thai. (I looked it up at http://www.thai2english.com, a cool thai<-->eng online dic that I just found.)

Here's a recipe for placenta in case you were wondering just what to do with the damn thing.

While blogging my experience eating placenta, I did a Google search and came up with this column from Cecil, the Straight Dope author, in which he is asked whether eating placenta is just an urban myth. Well, when I read that I thought I better make a comment on the column to provide further evidence that, although not common, eating placenta is not an urban legend.

Someone replied to my comments, leaving the following pretty good joke:

When my ex was pregnant with our second child(mid 1980's), our Dr asked if we knew why, in the movies, that they always ask someone to boil water when a woman is about to deliver.

Thinking he was serious, we said no.

He said, giggling, "Well, it's so they can eat the placenta."

thrilling question.. lets see if theres some evidence... ( besides that i just puked at my keyboard... i am very sensitive today...)

Hmm while I pride myself on my willingness to try just about anything considered food I am not too sure how enthusiastic I would be about this perticular dish.

in a coffeeshop/restaurant in a hotel in bangkok they had uterus on the menu. In the english version of the menu it was not mentioned wich animal it came from. I can not remember the name of the hotel but is was nearby sanam luang. i didn'thave the courage to order.

... "There are human cultures that eat their placentas, so it's not unheard of. Just Google "eating placenta" for example. " ...

but what about human placentas?

i have heard of this... but never tried, and dont think i could try lol ...i commented "can eat anything" in corriander's journal, guess its not true

in the hillbilly town where i grow up, a woman heard the word 'placenta' in the delivery room and decided it would be a lovely name for her daughter.

Newfoundland has a town called Placentia Bay.