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Prosecutors want jurors at the upcoming "cannibal cop" trial to learn about defendant Gilberto Valle's computer chats with an online pal who told him that the taste of human flesh "isn't quite like pork, but very meaty anyway."

Court papers say Valle's would-be dining partner -- who used the screen name "Moody Blues" -- boasted that he'd feasted previously on "a black woman and a white child."

"I've not had a young white woman. Looking forward to it," Moody Blues added.

Valle -- who said he hadn't eaten anyone before -- replied, "Excellent," according to the Manhattan federal court filing.

Prosecutors also cited the following exchange:

Moody Blues: "If we get someone...and we finish the meat early, would you go for another?"

Valle: "Yeah. I think we would have to give it time though."

Moody Blues: "Why? Go for a completely different type. I'd love to eat another child."

In addition, court papers say Moody Blues noted: "I also love roasting whole pelvises, mind you only did with the little one so far."

Prosecutors revealed the chilling back-and-forth in response to a request by Valle's lawyers to bar introduction of evidence "in which Moody Blues appears to recount times in his past he he has cannibalized children."

The defense contends that Moody Blues' "hyperbolic and twisted recanting of prior instances of cannibalization are either irrelevant, exceedingly prejudicial, or both," and are "only unrelated claims of Moody Blues' repugnant prior acts."

"Mr. Valle never engages in the conversation on this subject with Moody Blues other than to usher the conversation away from the matter and into sexual fantasies about Which Mr. Valle finds arousing -- all of which have to do with adults," public defenders Julia Gatto and Christopher Flood wrote.

But the feds insist that the exchanges aren't "unfairly prejudicial" and "are highly probative of Valle's state of mind and of the existence of an actual, and non-fantastical agreement between Valle and the co-conspirator to commit a kidnapping."

"Indeed , they are no more sensational, depraved and disturbing than the related portions of the conversations (which Valle concedes are admissible) about shoving a specific and identified woman into an oven, with her legs folded under her, or cooking her over an open fire, slowly, to prolong her suffering," prosecutors Hadassa Waxman and Randall Jackson wrote.

The feds also noted that Valle, as a cop "charged with knowing, and enforcing, the law," was "voluntarily communicating with an individual who claimed to have murdered and eaten a child, and who desired to commit other murders with Valle."

Valle, 28, is scheduled for trial next month on charges that he schemed online with at least three people to abduct, rape, torture, cook and eat women he allegedly targeted using a law-enforcement database.

One of his three alleged co-conspirators, Michael Van Hise of Hamilton, N.J., was busted earlier this month after initially cooperating with the FBI.

Valle claims he was merely engaging in sexual-fantasy role playing during his online chats, and lawyers representing both him and Van Hise have accused the feds of arresting Van Hise to keep him from testifying on Valle's behalf.