Raw Bacon

[heineken8]

I work with a veterinarian from Belaruz (Russia) who used to work on a pig farm. He just moved to California a couple months ago. He never saw a Wal-Mart and purchased a couple pounds of bacon because it was so cheap (like $2/lb.) When he got home, he ate a whole pound raw. He said in Russia they eat it raw all the time. I told him that he could get sick from eating raw bacon from Wal-Mart, but he didn't believe me. I told him he needs to cook the bacon, and when he cooked a couple pieces (a few weeks later) he had diarrhea a couple hours later. He's not a really fat guy, but he doesn't excercise, maybe %20 bf, and eats this raw bacon all the time. He's ate it raw for 25 years and when cooked, can't stomach it. If I ate that much cooked bacon I would gain fat like crazy, I think. Just wondering if anybody eats it raw or does anybody know if when cooking bacon the composition of the fat changes?

 

[XOXOXO]

taenia soliem brother...if you eat uncooked raw pig meat (ham bacon etc) you can develop not only tapeworms but cysts in your brain. who knows how this guy has eaten so much (maybe the pigs in Russia are kept cleaner?), but def not a good idea.

as far as him getting sick by cooking it, maybe he used a shitty pan and ate some burned pan pieces, maybe it was just having that large amount of liquid grease who knows.

 

[Aries13]

Well I was born/raised in Serbia. We have pretty much the same customs and eating habits there( well I used to LOL) ...to the raw bacon reference , basically he eats it like that b/c they have smoked bacon there that is cut and eaten without cooking once it is done smoking. Due to the fact that this man was raised on this kind of meat, he can obviously digest it without a problem. As far as the cooking and getting sick from it goes, he probably messed up somewhere in the process. Ive seen my dad eat bacon raw(smoked) and cook it all the time.....chances are he's fried the bacon before but probably not the same type. This whole thing is really weird by the way.....havent ever heard anything like this ....and its so UNHEALTHY and fattening....probably tasty too....lol..im cutting right now and I dont even remember the last time I even smelled a piece of bacon.

 

[heineken8]

Yes, he did mention that it was smoked bacon, and I agree it is pretty strange. He had eggs with the cooked bacon, so maybe that made his stomach upset. I want to buy a camcorder now so I can show everybody the guy who eats raw bacon....

 

[pintoca]

smoked bacon is not raw. Eating raw pork is never a clever idea, even with todays supposedly high standards of living conditions for the animals...

 

[HiDnGoD]

Maybe eating the cooked bacon upset his balance. Kinda like going to a new country & eating new, unaccustomed, food. I've never had smoked bacon. Is it gooder then regular bacon?

 

[plrpower]

I am a regular american and ive eaten raw bacon before. Then again I eat anything raw. The bacon didnt make me sick but it tasted bad, way better cooked.