Is this the answer to #2...
The guy was shipwrecked on an island with a bunch of people... Everybody's dying of starvation.. Somebody claims to have made seagull soup... The guy eats it, likes it, and survives... Later, he decides to order seagull soup, but it tastes really different, so he realizes that it wasn't seagull that he was eating, but the other dead people, and he shoots himself.
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