To think eat raw rashers of bacon is disgusting?

[Latinorapida]

As in opening up a packet of smoked bacon rashers that you’ve just picked up from the supermarket, the type you’d put in your fry up, and just eat straight out of the packet? I wash shocked but they told me it’s totally normal and lots of people do it??

Pork tapeworms are infinitely worse than beef tapeworm.

Other tapeworms just move around around your intestines. You then have an idea you have an infestation.

However, pork tapeworms create cysts that can lodge in your muscles, internal organs and even your brain resulting in seizures.

Some people can be infested with the cysts for many years without knowing about it. So to those saying they have eaten raw pork and have never had worms, not to be so sure that they don't.

I often think that the virulent nature of pork tapework and other pork parasites must be why Islam and Judaism ban eating pork.

I’ve done it. Quite a few times.

Not recently mind you, I can’t even remember the last time, and I doubt I ever would again but yeah, it tastes like smoked salmon.

No no no 🤮 I’ve never heard of this

I'm not sure why people are making such a huge fuss about this.

Bacon is salty (preservative) and often smoked too (another form of preservative).

I wouldn't fancy it myself but it's not massively different from eating Serrano ham is it?

I remember back in the day when there was a Marks and Spencers in Paris; there always used to be elderly French men clutching packets of British back bacon, looking confused. One actually asked me once, do you eat this raw?

Yes it is different to eating Serrano ham.

It's made to be cooked.

There's no question marks here!

I mean sure if it was really salted (like they don't do any more much) and super smoked (?!) then...

It's still not the same as eating a ham. Which is meant to be eaten raw.

The standards etc will be different.

I mean.

You can buy a raw ham at Xmas in the shops (gammon?).

Cut chunks off and eat? Erm. No.

Cook it up. Yay!

This thread is baffling.

What's the word on raw chicken?

Makes me feel sick thinking about it. Gag.

Worms from pork aren't really a concern anymore. Modern farming methods have more or less eliminated them. I still think eating raw bacon is disgusting but it's not hugely risky. Slight risk of salmonella or ecoli, that's all.

@NiceGerbil

Yes it is different to eating Serrano ham.

It's made to be cooked.

There's no question marks here!

I mean sure if it was really salted (like they don't do any more much) and super smoked (?!) then...

It's still not the same as eating a ham. Which is meant to be eaten raw.

The standards etc will be different.

I mean.

You can buy a raw ham at Xmas in the shops (gammon?).

Cut chunks off and eat? Erm. No.

Cook it up. Yay!

This thread is baffling.

What's the word on raw chicken?

I was merely stating that it is partially preserved. No need for such outrage! And where on this thread has anyone suggested eating chicken raw?

@littlepattilou

Never known a soul do it personally, but YANBU *@Latinorapida* - eating raw rashers of bacon IS grim. vom 🤮

@hibbledibble

Yanbu. That's revolting. But then so is bacon in any form, as well as terribly unhealthy, and bad for the environment.

WTF are you actually on about?

WHO say bacon is a processed meat and so a group 1 carcinogen (i.e. known to cause cancer) as well as being a source of bad cholesterol. And intensive pig farming (as with most commercial animal husbandry) has a big impact on the environment. According to the OECD they are a significant problem for water and air pollution in a number of countries including quite a few European ones.

Of course, it’s delicious (when cooked) so...

Grim. I had never heard of it before.

Smoked bacon is only partially cooked, so they are risking food poisoning.

Steak tartare should only be made from finest ingredients by experts in ultra hygienic kitchens. Even so there is a slight risk, so should be avoided in pregnancy and if immune compromised.

What's the word on raw chicken?

It's called chicken sashimi and, again, you are at a high risk of food poisoning. Even in Japan, where it started and is popular, the Ministry of Health advise restaurants to cook chicken so that internally it heats up to 75°

You can get tapeworms and other toxic illnesses from eating raw bacon, or pork, I have read that many times over the years. Something to do with the processing of it..

I remember seeing one of those Gordon Ramsey Hells Kitchen programmes ages ago, he was having a big sweary fit, at some manager, in an American diner, who served up some raw bacon to a customer. He said "Man, do you want to kill the efffing customer. serving raw bacon to him, he will be ill, and you will lose all your trade here,if this is what goes on in your kitchen.

If it's dry cured it's no worse than proccutio or Serano ham. Salami is chopped up ham that is dry cured.

Yeah, I've done that when I was young. It was bloody tasty but so wrong, now I'm older I get that haha

Oh I've also done it with sausage. Strong gut now tho

Who was it op? How old are they?

I'd be very concerned about someone that thought this was ok.

It's vile
My mum used to let me eat the raw fat off bacon and raw sausage as a kid though 🤢

@Nat6999

If it's dry cured it's no worse than proccutio or Serano ham. Salami is chopped up ham that is dry cured.

How do so many people lack such basic knowledge of food? Bacon is not fully cured, it’s partially cured that’s why it needs cooking. It’s not remotely like a fully cured meat. It’s nothing like prosciutto etc.

@hibbledibble I genuinely feel sorry for you

A long time ago in a country far, far away....

An uncle married into a very wealthy family. On his first day at work post marriage he asked his new wife for bacon sandwich for lunch. You can guess the result .

@hibbledibble I genuinely feel sorry for you

For having a healthy and ethical diet? It's alright love, save your sympathy and focus on improving yourself.

No for having to make the comment on this thread, I imagine

I had a friend at uni do that and I found it both hilarious and repulsive! He was hungry and opened my fridge to find bacon which he proceeded to eat raw while I stood horrified telling him to stop. Claimed it was fine because it said "smoked".

I think there's often confusion because the english & american types of bacon are mostly thinly sliced RAW meat. They might have preservatives but obviously have the same texture and sheen of raw meat. In many other countries (eg Germany & Italy where sausage/sliced meat culture is huge) they don't sell raw meat bacon. Everything is basically like prosciutto and edible in any state.

@Watchingyou2sleezes

Any idiot eating raw bacon needs ejecting from your life. They are fucking weirdos

Seriously? I an think of a lot of reasons to eject someone from my life, but what they eat isn't one of them!

@Latinorapida

Very dangerous not just for food poisoning but also things like flukes I guess. Maybe not if smoked but most smoked is sprayed on flavours.