Context

This classic, creepy line is spoken by Dr. Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (directed by Jonathan Demme, 1991).

If Dr. Hannibal Lecter invites you over for dinner, you best RSVP no… unless you have a taste for human flesh. He didn't get the nickname "Hannibal the Cannibal" just because it rhymes.

In case there were any doubts that Dr. Lecter takes pleasure in consuming human organs, he removes them all with this line, followed by a slurping sound effect, which we can only attempt to spell as fft fft fftt fftt. We've suddenly lost our appetite.

Where you've heard it

You hear this quote anytime someone references The Silence of the Lambs or maybe Hannibal, the TV show which has Mads Mikkelson stepping into the hungry shoes (where did the leather on those shoes come from? We don't want to know) of the carnivorous doctor.

Or we guess you might hear it if someone's eating human liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti...

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

Pretentious? Not really. But disgusting and illegal? Most definitely.