London restaurant offers 'human flesh' flavoured burgers

A London eatery is offering diners the chance to send their taste buds to the dark side with its "human flesh" burger.

The burger can be found at pop-up food venture Messhead, the UK Telegraph has reported.

It is meant as an unofficial promotion of the popular zombie horror TV show, The Walking Dead.

The patties are of course not real human flesh but dubiously "inspired" by the accounts of cannibals who went public with their experience.

In the chefs' best estimation, a human flesh burger patty can be simulated by a combination of pork, veal, bone marrow and chicken livers.

The creators said they had researched cannibals including American explorer, occultist and WWI veteran William Seabrook who described human flesh as tasting like "good, fully developed veal".