Twisted meat

See also: Meat, Human meat, and Insect meat

Twisted meat is a type of meat obtained from butchering entities. It can be eaten just like any other meat, but most humans dislike eating it even when cooked into meals.

Acquisition

Twisted meat is produced when a cook butchers any of a number of entities at a butcher table or butcher spot. The amount obtained depends on the Meat Amount of the butchered entity, as well as the Butchery Efficiency of the butcher and a number of other factors. ^{[Detail Needed]}

Animal	Meat Yield
Chimera	70
Devourer	70
Dreadmeld	70
Fingerspike	70
Gorehulk	70
Noctol	70
Sightstealer	70
Toughspike	70
Trispike	70

You can also receive twisted meat by chopping down harbinger trees.

Alternatively, pawns with the psychic slaughter power can fatally convert an organic target directly into piles of twisted meat, rather than their normal output when butchered.

Fleshmass nuclei kept on holding platform or holding spots regularly produce twisted meat.

Summary

Although edible and physically harmless to your pawns, consuming twisted meat in any form (raw, cooked, or paste) inflicts a substantial −10, 24 hour moodlet.^{[Thought template]} Eating raw twisted meat does not inflict the normal mood debuff for eating raw food. By default, cooks will not cook with twisted meat, but you can make them do so by allowing twisted meat in cooking bills. While unpleasant, it still has its uses:

Ghouls and tamed animals can eat it without issue, leaving more pleasant foodstuffs for your pawns.
Some recipes at a serum lab require twisted meat.
Harbinger trees can consume it to hasten their growth, essentially banking the meat at a very inefficient rate for future use.
Like insect meat, its market value is only 0.5, or 25% of regular meat. However, this has no effect on the market value of any meal you might cook out of it.
Inhumanized pawns receive no mood debuff for eating twisted meat raw or as an ingredient in meals. Inhumanization only affects the debuffs for Twisted Meat, so such pawns will still receive the mood penalty if forced to eat Insect Meat, Human Meat, Fungus, Nutrient Paste, or other raw foods without an overriding ideological Precept or Gene.
Ascetic pawns also receive no mood debuff from eating raw or cooked Twisted Meat, but this does not override mood debuffs from precepts such as Meat Eating (Abhorrent) from the Animal Personhood Meme.
Pawns with the Cannibalism precept or the Cannibal Trait will still receive the mood debuff from consuming twisted meat.
Biosculpter pods can be loaded with twisted meat for nutrients with no drawbacks.
Biofuel refinery can process twisted meat into chemfuel like any other meat.

Usage

Twisted meat is an ingredient in the following crafting recipes:

Product	Ingredients	Type [ExpandCollapse]
Biomutation pulser	1 + 40 + 30	Artifact - Utility
Ghoul resurrection serum	20 + 20	Drug - Serum
Juggernaut serum	20 + 10	Drug - Serum
Metalblood serum	10 + 20	Drug - Serum
Biomutation lance	1 + 50 + 20	Gear - Utility