A sort of ...
... reverse Dave Hameron then?
The world's oldest person is living proof of the awesome power of bacon, having achieved supercentenarian status on a daily dose of sliced pork goodness. Susannah Mushatt Jones, 116, reportedly tucks into a few breakfast rashers every day along with scrambled eggs and grits. Speaking at Jones's Brooklyn apartment, the Alabama …
You've obviously never had grits cooked properly.
Being from South (capitalized, as it should be), she's simply having a regular breakfast. If it's a Sunday or otherwise special breakfast you'd add at least buttermilk biscuits, sausage (patty and/or links), white gravy and hash browns . Maybe some cornbread muffins and real butter.
Almost every time I read about someone hitting or passing the century mark, it always seems they enjoy either cigars, wine, or bacon, or some combination of the three*.
Maybe the key to a long life is really just enjoying life and indulging yourself a bit?
*Sadly, no one ever seems to credit caffeine for their long life... oh well.
"Maybe the key to a long life is really just enjoying life and indulging yourself a bit?"
Yes exactly this.
There's an old Victorian song about sex that has turned into a saying/proverb that can be applied to anything indulgent:
I always hold in having it if you fancy it
If you fancy it that’s understood
And suppose it makes you fat? I don’t worry over that
‘Cos a little of what you fancy does you good.
Marie Lloyd ~ 1900
you bet....we focus on / are told constantly in life that everything is bad for our bodies and that we're terrible bastards for thinking of indulging ourselves.
Well, I hold that a bit of what's good for the soul and mind gets neglected and that's just as important.
"Maybe the key to a long life is really just enjoying life and indulging yourself a bit?"
Why would you even want a long life if you aren't enjoying it and indulging yourself a bit?
As has been said before: "If you want to live to be 100 years old, you have to give up all the things that make you want to live to be 100." Maybe that's wrong.
> cigars, wine, or bacon
All together now: "# Two out of three ain't bad"..
(Never knowingly smoked a ceegar in my life. Knowingly eaten bacon and drunk wine. Including tea last night - baked potatoes with a bacon, mushroom and grilled cheese topping. Washed down with a fine Aussie red wine)
First of all, bacon hogs average 400 kilos when harvested (mine are, anyway[0]).
This woman grew up in Alabama. They eat streaky bacon, not proper bacon.
The porkbelly is typically around 8 kilos (mine are, anyway). There are two per hog.
The rashers weigh in at about 55g each[1] after curing and smoking, the way I cut.
That's 276 hogs+/-.
Remember, when you only eat one part of an animal you are wasting a great deal of product. Nose to tail is the ONLY way to go. It totally pisses me off when a bridal reception orders skirt-steak, or worse chain meat, for 300 folks. The first kills 75 1800 pound steers for 300 people ... the second kills 150 steers. I try to educate, and suggest beef clod instead (not often seen outside of Texas, but a frequent visitor to my smokehouse ... ). Some folks leave in a huff, but I can deal with it ;-)
[0] My sows are American Yorkshire, the boar is Duroc.
[1] I'm getting breakfast ready for the hands[2], I weighed 10 rashers & averaged.
[2] Two or so days of crush to go, and we can get back to normal.
" hog farmer - who'd-a-thunk? "
I though Jake was an ex-marine who after saving the world three times went on to be a successful engineer with many patents and trade secrets to his name and lives in a fortress of solitude. I had no idea he was a hog farming astronaut too! :-)
I have only found two places in the USofA that does not eat Streaky-grilled to a crisp- Bacon
If Jake sells what us Brots calls Bacon then kudos to him.
Most American folks (IMHO) don't have a clue about cuts of Meat. Having spent a good amoubt of time working in a Butchers when I was a Student I guess I know more than most. but Chain meat is a new on on me. for those who don't know, it is the offcuts from Tenderloin. I can see how Jake gets the numbers of Steers to kill when that is used. such a waste.
Got a nice bit of Black Beef Shin (from a local herd) for sunday. Slow cook for 4-5 hours Delicious.
Cheek is another really nice cut.
That's all very fine but keep the topic in mind. This woman lived to 116 years eating American bacon. Not UK bacon, not Canadian bacon.
I have no issue with people preferring any kind of bacon over any other kind of bacon, but if you want to live longer, the medically- and nutritionally-correct approach is: eat American bacon.
Or die young. Your choice.
if you want to live longer, the medically- and nutritionally-correct approach is: eat American bacon.
Family average age is, sadly, in the late 40s. If eating American bacon leads to longer age, then I think I am going to be one who lowers our average! Streaky is pretty bad, but crisp as well? Ugh. Horrible idea. I'd rather take the "die young" option than eat that stuff! (says he who is about to take an early spring motorbike ride with an unknown bike and untested riding companions on unfamiliar roads...)
Harumph! "Streaky" bacon, indeed! Canadian and English "bacon" is what we bacon eaters call side cut HAM. HAM is a soft cooked meat that we serve at dinner. For breakfast we eat BELLY CUT BACON fried crisp and crunchy. According to the UN International Bacon Rights Guidelines, the only other place BACON is legitimately found on planet Earth is in the BLT sandwich.
jake: "It totally pisses me off when a bridal reception orders skirt-steak, or worse chain meat, for 300 folks. The first kills 75 1800 pound steers for 300 people ... the second kills 150 steers."
What, do you think the butchers took just those few cuts from the steers and threw the rest of the meat away?
Streaky bacon IS real bacon! And it must be properly dry cured. It should never produce any water in the pan even if the pan is started from cold with the bacon in it.
The stuff you get in the supermarkets in the UK is mostly complete rubbish.
BTW, the fat is good for you. The protein you need a lot less off. So streaky makes sense.
I don't know, bacon doesn't last long in my fridge besides that would mean all meat would be banned.
Maybe bacon disproves the existence of god?
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly tasty could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "Bacon is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
@ Yugguy
However those dietary laws now belong in the history bin, at one time we used to believe the Earth was flat and was created in 4004BC.
Refrigeration along with bleach, soap and water and microbiology have advanced us an awful lot.
The Universe is in a constant state of flux and so should our thinking.
If she was a 60 a day chain smoking alcoholic then they would never have even interviewed her because as everyone knows smokers and drinkers are Satan worshippers of the worst kind <sarcasm>. Bacon is good for you, alcohol is good for you, even nicoteen is good for you,... so long as you get the dosage right. If you choose to overdose on bacon, don't expect to live to 116. 16 would be difficult!
Nicoteen might not harm you, but it's all the other shit smokers breathe in that makes them far less likely to be a drain on the state by living a long retirement. (Smokers are very charitable. They pay a lot more in taxes and save often decades of expensive pension and spiralling healthcare costs!)
If someone had discovered immortality they would probably keep it quiet. Until the time of the gathering of course, then all bets are off and head-lopping sword fights and magical light displays are the order of the day.
I swear, Regtards will downvote anything. If you don't get the reference, leave it the fuck alone.
Have an upvote, but don't ask about the haggis.
> but don't ask about the haggis.
Haggis? HAGGIS? AAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!
<Runs screaming from the room>
Haggis should be defined by the Geneva Convention as an illegal munition and a Cruel and Unusual Punishment. I demand an immediate cull of the wee beasties!
When the subject of age and history comes up, I sometimes pipe up with my having been part raised by a Victorian - my Nan was born not long before Victoria popped her clogs, so technically a Victorian. It also tickles me to think that her husband fought in a war (WW1) which caused the collapse of the empire (the Ottoman empire) that caused the final defeat of the Roman empire (back in 1453 IIRC). And some folk think history isn't relevant, tsk.. :-}
Well done to the old biddy. Even if she cannot do much else at least her gnashers are working, or rather her lower jaw.
Recently I had to tell a client to ask his mother to sign a document. She is 105 and managed a signature after practising a few times.
Crikey! Before I came off the grog I was half that age and there were times on most days I could not have signed my name.
Some folks last better than others.
My Mother used to be a home help and she used to do a bit of work for an old gent. He had to give up visiting the 'old folk' when he hit 100 (most of he people he visited were 20yr younger than him) and he lived in his own house until he took ill and passed when he was 101. He was an old farmer and still had hands like shovels and a handshake that would crack your knuckles.
I've seen some folk in their 40s that looked in worse health than he did at 100.
Olaf, yep, sounds like a grandmother of mine. Used to tour in a "mature persons" revue troupe to old peoples homes. She was 20 years older than most of the inmates. Quit performing when she had to move into one, as much for security as anything else. Number of con-artists that target old people is disgusting. She lived to 101 with full set of marbles. Back on farm where she lived most of her life bacon and eggs for brekkie were standard morning feed. Now I am hungry, and just had dinner. {S}
Agreed, but as you implicitly suggested, lifestyle makes a difference.
During a memorable visit to a nursing home, I had the pleasure of dining with my grandmother (who lived to age 98) and my aunt (my grandfather's sister, who passed away a couple of months later at the age of 99). There was a spry old man at another table who had been a dancer in his youth, and he was enjoying his 100th birthday. They lived in a rural Texas community where just about everyone worked hard and ate a "traditional" breakfast. My aunt said she knew she would get old someday, but she didn't realize how "old" she would feel. No one ever worked harder on a daily basis than she did, but carrying around heavy feed bags took its toll, and she suffered from constant aches and pains when she reached her 90s. She told me, quite seriously, that she wished she was my age. (I was 50 at the time.)
One of the aides offered the old man a dance to celebrate his reputation as a dancer, so he stood up and they danced right next to the dining table for a few minutes. She asked him if he wanted to sit back down, but he didn't want to stop. He received a round of applause. I approached him after dinner to wish him a happy birthday, and I asked him, "When you were 50, if someone had told you that you'd be dancing on your 100th birthday, would you have believed it?" He smiled and replied, "Would you?"
...must involve the previous record-holder turning in their metaphorical badge. I'm all for celebrating longevity, but the linked article from Guinness World Records makes no mention of the world's loss of the former record holder. His or her bacon-snaffling habits must therefore remain mysterious, and Lester's Hypothesis must remain based on a sample of one! :)
Hey look I'm not going to mock someone who's lived for over century, bloody good luck to them if they've done it. However I'd be happy to die after my three-score-and-ten having lead a good life, ending happy with a smile on my face, naked and in the arms of my wife suffering a massive coronary after we've just made love for the 4th time that day! Ha ha!
I'd hate to reach 105, being pushed around in a wheel chair by strangers 'cos I've outlived my kids and been dumped in a home, barely able to speak and attempting to moan about the rash I'm getting from having to wear adult nappies 24 hours a day or God forbid tubes up my various output ports. All the time what's left of my extended family desperately try to keep me ticking along right up to my last gasp of oxygen assisted breath just so they could get me in the Guiness Book of Records.
"As someone who'll likely have to work til they are three score and ten I'd rather not drop dead the day after I retire."
And yet, that is the precise scenario assumed when the state pension was introduced and why there is a huge pension deficit now. Pension age was set to reflect the fact most people rarely survived more than a few year once retired.
"Let's hear it for chips (fries in the US)."
No, what we call chips is not what the USAains call fries. Fries are piddly little skinny things with a poor surface to volume ratio meaning you get lost of fat/oil per chip than with proper, thicker/fatter chips :-) I think they call them steak cut fries.
Stop being surprised and wake up!
There is NO scientific evidence that saturated fats are bad for you.
You NEED it. Your brain is made from it.
Body repairs uses it (which is why it's found around damaged areas).
Fat doesn't drive the insuline levels up, so doesn't cause diabetes.
Fat doesn't drive apetite, for the same reason.
If you burn fat (which many people CAN'T do due to eating too much carbs), then you can go for days without eating, should the need arise. Handy when you want to lose weight.
We shouldn't keep beliving in an unsupported myth.
Sugar and white flour is what is killing and disabling millions upon millions.
An inconvenient truth.
I like bacon, it is really not bad, but what's all the fuss about ? It is not THAT good ... There is a guy on youtube or 10 who list track names of albums (with time offset links) with all nouns replaced with "bacon". Now, what is the meaning of all this ? Bacon (proper English variety) tastes nice, so does chicken curry, rib eye, and broccoli, I would not know which I prefer. I never thought there could be a bacon fanclub, I thought the bloke on youtube was bonkers, apparently, there are more on here!
Imagine she said broccoli every day, or fennel, or chicken .... it would not have made the el reg.