[hinckley buzzard]

Smoked herring and sausage contain inordinate amounts of nitrites which may give you cancer sometime soon. I'm sure your kids will appreciate getting their inheritances in a timely fashion however.

[trisham]

Ouch.

[JRandomFreeper]

I almost died after a fall from a mountain during a blizzard in 2009. As far as the kids are concerned, I'm on overtime, and living on their dime.

Besides, I offset the nitrates with the nicotine.

/johnny

[heshtesh]

I had a dozen lightly fried shrimp two eggs over easy and toast along with a tall glass of chocolate milk for breakfast.......yum!

[FreedomPoster]

Those preservatives may be preserving you.

And I’m reading that the studies linking nitrates with cancer have been discredited.

[Finny]

Smoked herring and sausage contain inordinate amounts of nitrites which may give you cancer sometime soon. I'm sure your kids will appreciate getting their inheritances in a timely fashion however.

In a bit of cattle ranching business, my dad dealt with some old families, third and fourth-generation Swiss, Portuguese ranchers and farmers, who made excellent sausage (still do). They also made jerky out of pork. They shared some with my dad one day. He chewed on it (it was delicious) and asked them, "Don't you guys ever worry about getting trichinosis from this?" They shrugged, one of them said, "We had an uncle who died of it once." My dad was amused because other than that, they took no mind. And those old guys lived pretty long, as a general rule.

As a waitress in a seafood restaurant, I learned quick that the older and sparklier gentlemen, as in octogenarians or older who still had a twinkle, almost always ordered oysters. Just sayin!

[9YearLurker]

Fresh sausage doesn’t have nitrites.