A Spanish influencer has stated that after she had surgery to remove cartilage from her knee, she and her boyfriend put it into spaghetti bolognese and ate it.
In what might be one of the most bizarre things you read this week, Paula Gonu went under the knife as she had cartilage removed from her knee that was there due to a previous injury.
The influencer spoke on the 113 podcast where she revealed that she opted to stay awake during the procedure so she could watch the doctor operate on her knee.
Following the successful operation, the 30-year-old was offered the opportunity to take the cartilage home - which she accepted because she had something pretty bizarre in mind.
Gonu revealed that she took what had been removed from her body and cooked it up in some spaghetti bolognese that she shared with her boyfriend.
"[The doctor] used a camera. He operated through two holes and it was all up on the screen," Gonu revealed, per a translation from Spanish to English published by the Daily Mail.
When asked whether she wanted to keep the cartilage, Gonu said: "I told him yes, and he put what he removed into a small container like those used for urine samples. He put it in alcohol so it would stay that way for as long as I wanted."
Then came the interesting conversation with her boyfriend about wanting to consume the cartilage - which doesn't seem like a conversation that many couples will have.
The influencer revealed that she informed her boyfriend about her intentions and he questioned why she would want to do it, and she revealed to him that it wouldn't hurt her and she wanted to "reinsert it" into her body.
"So, then I made a Bolognese sauce, I added it in, and I ate it. I wanted to be able to say in my head that I've eaten a piece of my own meniscus," she continued.
To make the meal, in case anybody is interested, the influencer simply made the bolognese as normal and added the flesh to the sauce...
She explained that it didn't taste bad and that it was no different from eating "worse animals".
Speaking to the Daily Mail, The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners said: "There are many things doctors recommend patients do following surgery including recuperating slowly and carefully heeding all instructions given to them post-surgery, however, eating your own cartilage is certainly not one of them."
It would seem that those who watched the YouTube video where the influencer revealed how she consumed part of her own body were also pretty shocked.
"I almost threw up a thousand times in the first few minutes talking about food," one person wrote, with a second adding: "At what point did I decide that it was a good idea to watch this over dinner?"
So the question is - does anybody fancy eating part of their knee to confirm whether Gonu's claims that it doesn't taste bad is correct?
I would do it in the name of science, but unfortunately, I'm a vegetarian.
