Last but not least: Help, it's very human

In the successful series "The Walking Dead", a small group of survivors fight their way through a world populated by the undead after a global zombie apocalypse. The US production has been thrilling millions of viewers worldwide since 2010, has been showered with awards and has brought the zombie mythology to new heights of popularity. Zombies are resurrected, soulless dead people who want to take revenge on the living for various reasons. Anyone who is killed by a zombie - similar to vampires - becomes a zombie themselves and from then on hunts down those who are not infected. The special feature: Zombies eat people.

To celebrate the fifth season, advertisers have launched a macabre but sensational campaign. On September 30, 2014, burgers that are supposed to taste like human meat can be purchased in a London restaurant. The taste of the meat was based on descriptions from people who have eaten human meat. For example, the journalist William Buehler Seabrook, who died in 1945, wrote that the meat tasted "like good veal, not too young, but not yet beef". Buehler Seabrook, who studied cannibalism extensively, said that he took the opportunity to taste human flesh on a trip to Africa.

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Based on the descriptions, chef James Thomlinson created a burger whose meat is a mixture of veal, beef and pork. Blogger Joe Bish was at the Tests in the process.

The burgers will be sold at the Terminus Tavern, a location based on the series where the fourth season ended. The location will be announced shortly beforehand via Twitter. The question remains as to whether the burgers are really comparable to human meat. The question can actually remain unanswered. (hae)