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I don’t understand these flaccid bacon people. Crispy bacon is clearly superior.
Not flaccid, I want crispy edges but goddamn, bacon you can sit and chew for awhile is amazing. Burnt/"crispy" bacon just crumbles and, in my possibly tapeworm adled brain, deprives you of sweet bacony goodness.
Exactly. Crispy edges for that maillard flavor, but still chewy means the fat coats your mouth and leaves that long lasting savory bacon flavor even after a sip of coffee.
Crispy might as well be eating a bottle of bacon bits. It's just disappointing dry dust with a flavor that disappears almost immediately.
My mouth started watering at fat coats your mouth lol
I like to cook it in the oven for extra crispiness. Also, candied bacon is amazing.
Mett Brötchen 🤤 as a German I disagree.
I posted this in a reply, but I'm reposting it here:
Bacon is already cooked when you buy it from the store (at least in america). The difference between "pork belly" and "bacon" is that bacon is cured and then smoked. That smoking process gets the temperature above the range to cook it.
Besides, even "chewy" bacon is going to get above the recommended pork cooking temp. It's so thin, it will reach that temperature very quickly. If it gets hot enough to start rendering the fat, it's definitely hot enough, and I have a hard time believing anyone would pull bacon out of the oven before it's had time to render some fat.
If you read the case report by the docs, they don't say "we think he got this disease from bacon".
Our patient’s lifelong preference for soft bacon may have led to instances of undercooked bacon consumption, but this would have caused him to develop taeniasis, an intestinal tapeworm, and not cysticercosis [1]. Taeniasis occurs when consuming undercooked pork and the larval cysts embedded within, while cysticercosis is contracted when humans ingest eggs found in the feces of other humans with taeniasis [1].
In other words, the brain version only comes from eating the eggs, which can only come from eating poop of someone who had the intestinal worms. They later specify that they think the most likely scenario is that he got the intestinal version, re-infected himself through the fecal-oral pathway, then somehow cured himself of the intestinal version.
Personally, I think the most likely scenario is that he got the parasite the same way you get any other disease that uses the fecal-oral pathway: contact with someone's inadequately washed hands, or eating food prepared by someone with inadequately washed hands.
Personally, I think the most likely scenario is that he got the parasite the same way you get any other disease that uses the fecal-oral
I thought you were going somewhere else with this...
Fear won't stop me, if she enjoys it, I'm tongue punchin' it.
Reminder to always wash your toys after playtime, people.
And no matter how clean the chocolate starfish claims to be, it is never clean enough
That's my least favorite pathway.
Leela, I had worms. I needed to know who you loved. Me or them.
I'm wondering if this explains why my chewy-bacon eating father is a Trumper.
No, that's right. It's the fascism.
tapeworms are to fascist americans what the ratatouille rat was to that chef in the movie
From prions to tapeworms, rare though they may be, I'm happy to be vegetarian even though I miss wings.
Fun fact: Both prions and tapeworms can spread from vegetables!
Enjoy your next meal.
How did I know someone would reply with something like this lol.
Guess I'll just die.
Edit: So having read these more closely and looked into it further:
Yes, it's suggested there is a vector for prion disease — particularly CWD — from cross-contamination of plants but the study focused on Chronic-Wasting Disease (CWD), which itself is not infectious to humans... Yet.
There have been no documented infection of a life-long vegetarian/vegan with an human-infectious prion disease. One famous case discovered the individual got it from infected beef as a child.
Tapeworms and Roundworms can cross-contaminate vegetables, mostly due to poop. Wash your veggies. Cook your meat.
Nevertheless the vast majority of tape-worm and round-worm cases stem from meat. Naturally, if one needs only wash/cook the exterior of a vegetable versus ensuring the internal cooking of meat from an animal raised around other animals and wallowing in its own shit, the risk is evidently going to be much higher in the latter.
Wash your veggies, cook them, and wash them again. Cook them one more time if you don't trust your water
It's been three days. I starve, yet I must wash and cook the vegetables ten more times before I can eat them.
I love fun facts.
Study seems to suggest exposing the wheat plant roots to lots of prions didn't do anything other than get them on the roots, sometimes?
The Gardein ultimate chic'n wings are pretty solid if you haven't had them yet. I wish someone made veggie wings that you could use your own sauce with, but I haven't seen any.
Omg dude you're right about that, best veggie wings I've had, but I've also never seen something contain that much sodium per serving. Meanwhile that little bag contains 4050mg in total lol.
Cauliflower wings are a decent alternative if cooked correctly
I've had cauliflower pizza and holy sodium was that high. I'm a sodium tolerant person and even that was too much for me. Back to instant ramen
Agreed. Also tofu bites, but cauliflower is easier to execute in my opinion.
I, too, have headaches and eat chewy bacon... 😟
Obviously you've got brain tape worms.
Just think of them as pets that really like to cuddle.
I never eat bacon. No headaches...😎
By candlelight I ate that pork I couldn't see danger on my fork Oh if you do love me completely Never again feed me food that will eat me
This sort of shit terrifies me because I definitely don’t cook my food perfectly each time
New fear unlocked
On one hand, cooking it thoroughly is probably a decent fix.
But...I wonder if irradiation would be sufficient to wipe out tapeworms?
https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazines/bulletin/bull8-3/08305702731.pdf
On the other hand, irradiated bacon has been approved for human consumption by the health authorities and is being processed commercially in the United States. In fact, participants at Karlsruhe were served such bacon which had been kept for 21 months at room temperature (20°C to 38°C) and showed no signs of deterioration.
That does sound promising.
There's nothing promising about immortal bacon.
Found the tapeworm!
people think immortality is a gift.
but it is a curse.
immortal bacon would be no different.
the times we don't have bacon, give delicious flavor to the times when we do. if it was bacon time, all the time, then the phrase 'bacon time' would lose it's significance.
And I just watched House m.d. 1 part of 1st season last week :)
Does the curing process not kill them? This surprises me.