Quote Originally Posted by HaveCrowBarWillTravel View Post
Nik,
the MRE are vacum sealed (twice) and inside sealed/taped boxes, sitting in a warehouse on a pallet for eons.. hard to imagine them smelling that.. but i'll roll with you on that because Skittles aroma was lingering around and bits of food from the packets were there. I'm surprised he hadn't burned himself.
I'm just going off what Skittle said that he led them to the warehouse by eating the food there before he took the supplies and moved into the Water Tower. You're right, on their own sealed, nothing seems to have gotten into them, otherwise there would be nothing left of any of the MREs. The only ones that were eaten was from the pallet Skittles ate from and left behind trace scents for something to find and investigate. So I'm saying the aroma of the two MREs skittles ate in the warehouse is what attracted something to that site, and they then broke open the boxes thinking that's where the smell was coming from. Going back to my bear example, a bear in the woods will trash an entire camp site because it smells traces of food and will destroy anything to find it.

I can see your bear thing if we weren't talking creatures that are supposed to be attracted to eating flesh.. with a severe hankering for our bits and pieces.
Supposed to is a loaded word. We are all making assumptions off our collective 50 some odd years of pop culture mythology about Zombies. That doesn't necessarily mean KC isn't adding something to the mythos. Doesn't it make it a little more terrifying and harder to survive if the predator that's hunting you also consumes your food supply? Starts to leave you with very few options left. Besides, if they are supposed to be our typical "eat when they come in contact with flesh" zombies, why have they been able to lay traps, imprison prey, and organize themselves around a leader?

Cat's play with mice before they take a chomp, but Sam didn't last long enough once she hit the arena floor. Anyway, I'll have a wild theory soon that I'll desperately want you to buy off on, so you can have this one. LOL
You're right, she didn't last long. And that does indeed go against the blood sport theory...but I still like it. Can't wait to hear your wild theory!

Lets say our Eat Em Ups have lost their sense of taste... that would mean they wouldn't pay attention to non human food???
Just because they can't taste doesn't mean they don't need to feed. If we buy the omnivore theory, they will eat just about anything that they can find when they are hungry. The zombie in the beach house was eating what was available to it. Dog food. Everything needs to consume to survive. In a pinch, you or I could survive on dog food. Personally, I'd rather not eat it, but I can and I could survive off of it. And it will help make my coat shine. No reason I can't look pretty in a zombie infested world.