Human meat tops food-related Google trends

Coming in at No. 5 on Googles food-related rising search terms this week was Pizza Hut, perhaps for their headline-grabbing hot dog stuffed crust pizza in the UK. AFP pic

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 Its been a dark week for food-related Google searches. A gruesome news story about a trio of murder suspects in Brazil accused of selling human meat in street pies was the top trending story in the last seven days under the Food and Drinks, cooking and recipes subcategory.

As of April 18, 9am GMT, carne humana or human meat in Portuguese, was a Breakout search term on Google, experiencing a change in growth greater than 5,000 per cent.

Its a grisly story that has captured the attention of the Brazilian public for its ghoulish details: murder fueled by cultish beliefs that preaches the purification of the world and population reduction.

A shooting at a restaurant in an Ohio suburb also drove the restaurant chain Cracker Barrel as the second most popular rising search term in the Food & Drinks category under news this week.

The father shot and killed his wife and daughter, critically injuring a second child, reportedly after the wife revealed she was leaving him.

And Pizza Hut ranked in the top five most popular food-related search terms this week, most likely due to their hot dog-stuffed crust pizza in the UK which received a good amount of press in recent days.

Here are the top 10 rising news search terms in the Food & Drinks category this week:

1. Carne humana Breakout

2. Cracker barrel Breakout

3. Maru botana (a popular food TV personality in Argentina) Breakout

4. Mongolia +200 per cent

5. Pizza hut +60 per cent

6. Tea +50 per cent

7. Beer +40 per cent

8. Jean imbert +40 per cent

9. Pizza +40 per cent

10. Red bull +40 per cent. AFP-Relaxnews

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