Posted on 03/07/2013 7:52:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
What ARE those giant chunks of crispy oven baked goodness??!!?!!!
Yes it’s too late for me. I think it’s how much and how often is a big factor.
Pork belly is about 50% fat. The meat therein is very tender and cooks up beautifully in the oven. I smoked a side of pork belly last month and took the hunk of meat to my local butcher to slice into “bacon.” When I served my dad breakfast a couple weeks ago with that thin-sliced pork belly, the look on his face was one of pure ecstasy. He said it was the most delicious thing he’s ever consumed, and coming from an Italian man raised in Brooklyn, that was the biggest compliment I’ve ever received.
Oh, my.
Don't pour that bacon grease down the drain! You'll ruin the whole house!
But, go ahead & put it in your body. You'll be fine!
The Baconater is what I’ve heard them called. Pork sausage wrapped with woven bacon and smoked until tasty.
Sounds good. I think I’ll give it a try. But I will continue to eat bacon and sausage also. ;*)
The Islamists have spoken!
It may be bad for the body, but it is good for the soul.
And so what if it takes a few years off my life? They’re the last ones anyway! I doubt I’ll be sitting in the hereafter regretting the fact that I didn’t live long enough to become senile...
Good video here:
Old Man and the Se.. Bacon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdbZEXfPwmg
Proud bacon loving American
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QJzh_IvvI
Jim Gaffigan - Bacon - KING BABY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaK9bjLy3v4
Just proof that it’s the quality of life, not the quantity that counts! Gave up smoking, drinking, sugar, men...NOT going to give up my bacon.
Sounds like a vegan screed against meat products (formerly just against red meats).
And vegans are NEVER malnourished...
I have a better study. My grandparents ate these foods on a daily basis. The lived healthy lives into their late 90s.
I would bet that the person doing this study is a vegan!
I seriously doubt the objectivity of such studies. Therefore, I doubt the results.
Outside of pure physical science with no cultural angle, I have zero confidence that any research can be trusted.
In looking at my family history I see a tendency to die in the 60s of “acute indigestion”.
Not long ago I had stings in my heart, and they found a blocked artery which was opened with a stent. They first treated me for “acute indigestion”.
I now realize my ancestors died of blocked arteries rather than indigestion.
Bacon is still go-o-o-d! But in moderation.
What I’m saying is that bacon is pretty much the prepared meat from pork belly. Pork belly is the unfinished, raw cut from the pig from which bacon is born. If you buy it from your butcher, you’re getting the same thing, IMO.
As with all things.
You are making me hungry!
Dead Man Frying...
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