Leather: A Good Source of Protein

About two years ago I was talking to my, now moderately rich, uncle who graduated from the Ohio State University School of Dentistry in 1983. He claimed that he subsisted for 9 months (a year of school) on powdered jell-o, a bottle of vitamins that he stole from a convenience store, and water. He also said that after winter finals, in 1978, he ate a "piece of leather" that he found outside of the old union building at OSU. He supposedly tried to cook it in order to tenderize it but ended up burning it on one side. He then thinly sliced and ate the piece of leather, mostly likely alongside a tray of jell-o, 1-2 dubiously acquired vitamins, and a jar of 1978 Columbus city water.