Hannibal the Connoisseur
Hannibal Lector prides himself on having exquisite taste in all things, not just food. He loves fine classical music, great art, wines and liqueurs. He buys only the best in cars, knives, perfumes, clothes, cookware. He can afford to be choosy, but he also takes what he wants and manipulates people and situations to his advantage.
He thinks that people taste delicious, but he mostly eats “rude” people because they don’t really deserve to live. I do wonder, though, if non-rude people would taste better than rude people since they don’t have all that negative energy flowing through them. On the other hand, maybe it’s their rudeness that actually makes them more delicious, something about the chemicals flowing through their sweetbreads that makes them extra tasty. Or maybe it’s just the sheer emotional satisfaction of eating people who have such disregard for others.
Hannibal owns a well-loved copy of Alexandre Dumas’s Dictionary Of Cuisine, and he sees fine food in the people he meets. At one point, he met a child whose “neck was only as big around as a pork tenderloin.” Luckily the child wasn’t rude enough to eat.