WHY DO ZOMBIES EAT BRAINS?

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It is lore that zombies are the work of Haitian Voodoo or witchcraft in variety. On the Voodoo tip, it’s very much a hypnotic brain fuck-a-roo induced by two drugs, tetrodotoxin and datura. Tetrodotoxin is a powerful and often fatal neurotoxin that blocks the rapid sodium iron current in the myocytes surrounding the cardiac pacemaker causing an obstruction of electrical activity to the atrium. In lay lay, your heart no go boom boom. When Tetrodotoxin is not mixed properly with datura, a dissociative that blocks signals to the conscious mind from other part of the brain, it could have you swimming with the puffer fishes that it came from. This mélange is applied over an open wound by a Bokor or a sorcerer or a Voodoo priest known as a Houngan … and biggity BAM! You got yourself a Zombie. 

Now I get all technical on you because of the question at hand: Why do zombies eat brains? Well because the answer is, if I’m not talking out of school, they actually don’t. And by “don’t” I mean the actual realsie zombies, don’t. However, the popularized North American zombies, based on the version of the black arts scientifically described above, do. They love em. Because we as a vomitous realm, love em. We’re fucking sick. 

But in short: Why do zombies eat brains? They eat to survive. I’m sure, in our minds, they may love to sip on a nicely aged 57 year old bottle of Hank’s blood before munching down on Jeanie’s boobage, topping it off with a newborn mexican baby’s cerebrum but when it comes right down to it, and if you want to get technical, their minds aren’t as twisted as ours, they’re just fucking hungry. Brain or no, they gotta to eat.