I was so looking forward to some yummy placenta.

in the few women who become anemic, but that's it.

However, she might as well skip the icky factor and just eat the liver. Or kidneys. Or blood sausage. Or black pudding.

Placentas have medical uses if she donates. If she's done a home birth, it can be buried in the vegetable garden. It will enrich the soil, even if it doesn't particularly enrich a human mother who dines on it.

Animals eat the placenta in order to clean up their nest so predators can't easily smell the presence of babies, and also because the mother can't leave the nest to hunt for food and has no other immediate source of nourishment. If you aren't worried about your baby being eaten by predators and you have some food available for yourself, you don't need to be eating any placentas.

Your second sentence gave me a good giggle.

How might one eat such a thing - like pate on a cracker? Yuck.

Now finish your placenta burger and don't bolt your food Porgy !

an unhealthy reaction, namely wanting to hurl just thinking about it.

I have friends who have done this. I've always rolled my eyes at it. Ick.