Bacon butties will not kill you

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 07 March 2013 2:18 PM | Michael Hanlon

[Olog-hai]

I hate “eating x gives you y” stories. Nearly always, associations between particular foods and drinks and specific illnesses are weak, riddled with confounding variables and describe increases in marginal risks that shouldn’t really worry us. If eating pickled fish tongues, say, doubles your risk of developing cancer of the Lower Hobsonate Iltoid, that only sounds worrying until you realize that in the whole of human history there have only been three recorded cases of this ghastly (and wholly made-up) disease.

So what do we make of the news that high consumption of processed meats such as bacon, sausages and salami is responsible for one in 30 early (i.e. pre-65) deaths. Put another way, consuming 160 grams (5.6 oz) of sausages or bacon a day will, on average, increase your risk of keeling over through cancer of heart attack before that age by about 75 percent. Eat less than 20 grams or so (0.7 oz) of processed meats a day and you will reduce this risk dramatically. This is a big study published by proper scientists in a respectable journal (BMC Medicine). So should we take the Big Bacon Scare seriously? …

[E. Pluribus Unum]

DHMO can kill you in a matter of minutes if you immerse yourself in it.

[JoeProBono]

[mountainlion]

The heartburn comes from the ADM wheat by-products

Not me as my heartburn is form the grease.

[rlmorel]

Lets all sing the "Rub Some Bacon On It" song!

The “Rub Some Bacon On It” Song

911 what's your emergency?
I nailed my finger to a birdhouse accidentally
Do your have some bacon (bacon?)
Bacon, That's right
I have bacon left over from dinner last night
Rub some bacon on it
what?
On your hand just do it
Rub some bacon on it
That's all there is to it?

What if I dropped my phone?
Rub some bacon on it
or encounter my clone?
Rub some bacon on it
I get mononucleosis
Rub some bacon on it
My nude pics get posted

Rub some bacon on it
Rub some bacon on it
Rub some bacon on it
Yeah

My home gets foreclosed
Rub some bacon on it
My cat explodes
Rub some bacon on it
I wake up in a trunk
Rub some bacon on it
My friend goes steampunk
Rub some bacon on it
I meet real pirates
Rub some bacon on it
There's an akward silence

I say something unintentionally racist
Rub some bacon on it
I'm a adult with braces
Rub some bacon on it
I can't swim
Rub some bacon on it
I'm visited by Mr. Timn

Bacon hotline, What’s your problem?
What if I feed the troll?
Rub some bacon on it
I’m attacked by a narwhal
Rub some bacon on it
The apocalypse started
Rub some bacon on it
I think I might have sharted

Rub some bacon on it
Rub some bacon on it
Rub some bacon on it

[Focault's Pendulum]

[Focault's Pendulum]

[SoothingDave]

I just had Italian sausages for dinner that were swimming in sauce with red peppers and onion in the crock pot.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Can also be taken orally

[Flick Lives]

It’s a hot bacon sandwich on buttered bread.

OMG, that sounds great. A BLT without all that nasty lettuce! And butter! Everything is better with butter.

[Dr. Sivana]

I’m jealous. I have to settle for hot dogs tonight.

[Twotone]

Excellent info. Thanks for that!

[bravo whiskey]

i eat bacon sandwiches with mayonaisse instead of butter

[driftless2]

"heaven"

Curse you Dr. Sirvana, I'm trying not to eat anything the rest of the evening, and you're making my mouth water.

[Charles Martel]

Can also be taken orally

Indeed, the possibilities are amazing.

[Fzob]

I just ate four rolled up slices of salami. Yummy