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Plot Hole with that special barbecue at the end (SPOILERS!)

posted 10 years ago by dosgatosazules
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So this is kind of gross, but:

At the end, it's revealed that Frank Bennett's body was cooked up in the barbecue (that's how they chose to dispose of the body.) But I've read several true-crime stories in which humans were indeed cooked, and I've also read accounts of the death camps in Nazi Germany were humans were incinerated. All of them have in common that they describe the smell as awful and unmistakable. The neighbors would smell it, and even if nobody knew just *what* they were smelling, there'd be major suspicion falling on the diner.

[–] kriskaiser420 9 years ago

I guess you have never heard of long pig? It's all in the spices. In traumatic fires and the concentration camps hair was burned which would smell atrocious. Human muscle on a grill would smell like a cross between veal and pork.

[–] lunacyregnant 9 years ago

Besides, it IS a fictitious movie. It never claimed to be that accurate.

[–] Ithilfaen 9 years ago

All of them have in common that they describe the smell as awful and unmistakable

Since you started the discussion, here goes: incineration is not the same as cooking. We're talking about high temperature designed to burn flesh and bones. If you did that with a pig or a cow or other animals that we usually cook, it would also smell awful.
Cooking is the relatively low temperature heating of flesh, regardless of the flesh, it smells good unless it's burnt. Try leaving your steak too long on the barbecue next time and I promise you, it's not pleasant.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

[–] Hythlodaeus 9 years ago

To the OP.

This is a friendly message, take it or leave it. I read a lot of true crime in my life and you gotta be careful not to take the nihilistic horrors man can perpetrate on each other too lightly or to seriously.

There are indeed many cases of horrific intentional cannibalism, but people shouldn't focus too much on the details. A person I met on IMDB recommended a movie to me, a true account of a horrible killing, I watched it and there was a scene I absolutely will never forget.

Folks have to curb their curiosity and fear of horror, or else we desensitize ourselves and whet our appetite for atrocity.

What hump? 

[–] ebettman-1 9 years ago

So, what did they do with the BONES and the Internal Organs??

was Bennett's Skeleton found in that Truck??

and if not, how could the Judge assume he was "Ate UP??

Channel Cats and Germs would NOT Destroy a Skeleton.

Doesn't seem NICE to do that to their Customers. The Gumshoe from Valdosta may have deserved it, but noone Else.

[–] Hythlodaeus 9 years ago

Yeah, I agree, it's pretty unrealistic.

What hump? 

[–] The LA Baker (971) 7 years ago

"how could the Judge assume he was "Ate UP??"

When did that happen?!

[–] Punkinberry 9 years ago

So now I'm curious. What's the name of movie you're referring to?

[–] Jack2979 9 years ago

Yea, I want to know what the movie was too. I probably have seen it - I've seen some pretty gnarly movies in my time.

[–] Maniac_In_Black 8 years ago

@Hythlodaeus Yeah what was the movie

[–] head-81778 9 years ago

The biggest plot hole on that scene was having Curtis Smoot suddenly there the next day from Georgia looking for his missing person while innocently eating him, unless they served Frank all week. Fannie Flagg has a great imagination but she's really weak on details like trying a person in Georgia for a crime in Alabama.

[–] space-17 9 years ago

Just like Sipsey said... "The secret's in the sauce."

We're not bad people, Mac. We're just underachievers who have to make up for lost time.

[–] lunacyregnant 8 years ago

Most of you seem to forget that it's never stated whether it really happened or not. After Ninny tells Evelyn that Frank was (supposedly) cooked up, and fed to the town, Evelyn-- shocked, asks Ninny if it's true. Ninny smiles coyly and replies, "Secret's in the sauce".

Clearly that part of the story was fabricated. It's really no different than word-of-mouth stories (urban legends). The regular story, or ending of the story, is just too boring. Or there is no ending at all, so people make up their own.