"long pork" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-long pork.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: Reportedly coined because cannibals attest that human meat tastes like pork. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} long pork (uncountable)
  1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) Human flesh. Tags: euphemistic, idiomatic, uncountable Categories (topical): Meats Synonyms: long pig, the other white meat (english: horror), man-meat

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          "ref": "1896-1897, Atalanta, volume 10, page 11",
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          "ref": "1942, Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, Return to Malaya, page 369",
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          "ref": "2005, Jim Christy, The redemption of Anna Dupree, page 145",
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