No one likes to see things going to waste ... but this is taking it a bit too far!

Artist Alexander Selvik Wengshoel, 25, had to have an operation, removing his old hip.  Not wanting it thrown into the trash he decided to boiled his hip bone and eat it.  For those of you that are still reading, he said the 'meat' tastes like ‘wild sheep’.

“I had to boil off the meat to get to the bone, and when I started scraping off the meat, I took off a little piece and I thought, ‘why not do it. It’s not every day I will have a piece of human flesh which is mine and which it is possible to eat’, so I had a little taste, and then I thought, ‘that’s really nice’,” Alexander Selvik Wengshoelsaid, according to newspaper The Local.

“I made myself dinner while my girlfriend was at work, and I just resolved to have this really nice moment, with me and my hipbone ...

“It had this flavour of wild sheep, if you take a sheep that goes in the mountains and eats mushrooms. It was goaty.”

The 25-year-old was born without a functioning hip, and spent his childhood undergoing a series of failed operations.

When he was given a metal hip replacement at age 21, he convinced hospital doctors to let him film the operation and to take home the bone as an artistic souvenir.

The artist’s hip bone and operation footage form part of his graduation art project currently on display at the Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art.

He said his project, which largely involved subjecting himself to extreme pain by piercing his flesh with hooks, was about testing the limits of his body.

Eating the hip was “cathartic” after years of suffering from hip bone pain.