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What do zombies crave?

The wikipedia entry for "living dead" explains why this question matters.

Nothing, however, can explain why this video was stuck in my head all day yesterday. I can even forgive the makers of the video for siding with Russo over Romero (whether they knew this was what they were doing or not). I accept that "brains" makes a funnier lyric. ... Well, I thought it was funny.

Live flesh in my opinion.

Every time. Nine out of ten zombie owners said their fiend preferred it...

The soul resides in the subconscious so its gotta be brains.

Oh come on! Whenever you see Zombies in action, they're grabbing any red meat they can get their hands on, that's still attached to a screaming victim...

shhhhhhhhh but I have never seen a Russo zombie movie

Dunno how I missed them - to be zombies are Romero's shambling flesh munchers. I love the Wiki description of their cunning and the was they steer conversation round to the subject of brains though.

I have to try and find one somewhere - a film I mean, not a brain.

the question was CRAVE, though.
they'll eat flesh...but the really like the brains the best

Look, we're talking real live Nebraska zombies here, not some made for tv Hollywood nonsense.

No don't you go swinging this poll with your puppets. Gerrymanderer.

I believe this is an inside the circle thread... newbie.

in your hat, grandpa!

Let's go to the Winchester and find out!

Wouldn't it depend on which way the zombie apocalypse happened?

http://www.cracked.com/article_15643...ly-happen.html

So, one zombie says to the other zombie "why don't you ever come over for dinner anymore?" The other zombie replies "I don't like your mother." First zombie says "so just eat the potatoes."

Ba dum dum!

Good news!

New Scientist reports that an Israeli scientist has made a big step in curing zombie cockroaches.

Some highlights:

Quote:

Cockroaches can lose their ability to walk when stung by jewel wasps (Ampulex compressa) – the females of which use the cockroaches to feed their young.

The wasp, being much smaller than the cockroach, has evolved a fine sting that can deliver a venom cocktail directly into the cockroach’s brain. The poisons effectively turn the cockroach into a zombie.

Frederic Libersat from Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva, Israel, injected stung zombie cockroaches with candidate chemicals that resembled various neurotransmitters in the brain.

Libersat found that one of the drugs, a mimic of the neurotransmitter octopamine, succeeded in bringing the roaches back to life.

"The cockroach begins to walk spontaneously again, especially when injected directly into the brain," says Libersat.

One good shot to the brain stem, and no more zombie! This may yet save the world.

Hang on - isn't it just turning a stationary zombie into an ambulatory one?

Well, kind of, yes.
But the cockroaches were only "zombies" in that they couldn't walk (which is a lame (cough) version of a zombie) but it cured them, thus they are now back to being normal cockroaches ... creepy, scuttling, icky little things.
The point being that neurotoxins can be countered. We may yet be able to develop an anti-zombie inoculation or treatment.

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl (Post 409389)

I have to try and find one somewhere - a film I mean, not a brain.

"o/~ If I only had a film...o/~"