Great news!!
by NJ lion on Jun 14, 2009 9:47 PM EDT
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PrintBacon is good for you! According to a new study, "45 percent of the fat in bacon is monounsaturated, the good-for-you fat that can help lower bad cholesterol levels. Better still, bacon's monounsaturated fat turns out to be oleic acid, the same fat found in olive oil. So that means that some could argue that bacon is about half as good for you as olive oil and about 100 times more delicious." Here's the link (http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/food/10-surprising-health-foods-you-should-be-eating-474102/) which includes 9 other suddenly good for you foods. Surprisingly, chicken cosmos didn't make the cut.
So fry up some bacon for breakfast, lunch, and dinner - you'll be doing your body a favor!!
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The reason...
The reason Chicken Cosmos didn’t make the list is no one could bear to sacrifice a Cosmo for the study.
It’s the same reason they don’t crash-test Ferraris.
Why did no one think to wrap Cosmos in bacon? I may have died of a massive heart attack due to it, but it would be the most deliciously awesome heart attack ever.
Penn Staters belong at Penn State. The problem with a lot of kids is they just don’t know they are Penn Staters yet. -jesse. @ BSD
by TheK-GunNeedsReloaded on Jun 15, 2009 1:17 AM EDT up reply actions
As we speak...
Food scientists at the Borland lab are working on a way to coat a Chicken Cosmo in mayonnaise, wrap the whole thing in bacon, and seal it well enough so that it can be deep-fried whole. Currently the best mayonnaise-leakage they’ve been able to achieve is 28.4%, but they have every confidence that with the addition of a cheese-derived binding agent (fed to the pigs before slaughter) to improve the cohesive properties of the bacon sheath, they’ll be able to get a leak-free product that will explode in the diner’s mouth with a cascade of coronary-inducing goodness.
There is a tractor in the parking lot, West Virginia license EIEIO. Your lights are on.
by leeharvey418 on Jun 15, 2009 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
+100
DO YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE, DANNY?
"I hope after touchdowns this year all our players just point at Zug." - jtothep
by ReadingRambler on Jun 15, 2009 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions
We’d just inject it with mayo and wrap the whole thing with bacon. And top it with Cheese Whiz. And dunk it in ranch dressing.
If someone wants to finance this operation, I’d gladly formulate it. And eat it.
Penn Staters belong at Penn State. The problem with a lot of kids is they just don’t know they are Penn Staters yet. -jesse. @ BSD
by TheK-GunNeedsReloaded on Jun 15, 2009 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions
The Bad News (and sorry to be Admiral Buzzkillington):
Bacon is still 55% bad (saturated) fat (aka, and according to my very basic math skills, a majority). Sorry to rain on the bacon parade. This article seems to ignore some pretty heavy negatives with some of the foods, while hailing them suddenly as “surprising health foods” after half a decade of doctors saying otherwise.
Whole milk: “It turns out that saturated milk fats may help us absorb calcium better, and also contain big helpings of vitamins A and D.” The bad news: while you’re chugging that gallon of whole milk to absorb more calcium and vitamins, those same fats are headed straight to your arteries. Congrats!
Hey guess what: raw lard also has 45% monounsaturated fat. The bad news? That half-cup serving of lard you just ate contains 902 calories, 154% of your daily recommended fat intake, and 196% of your saturated fat intake. Oh, and you’re about to have a heart attack.
You can actually get bacon to contain more mono-unsaturated fat than saturated fat by feeding the pig a diet of unsaturated fats (you are what you eat isn’t all that far from the truth). The problem with that is unsaturated fat molecules have a kink in their structure that prevents them from becoming solid at room temp (which is why oils like corn oil and olive oil are liquids, e.g. oleic acid). Just because a pig has eaten it, doesn’t mean it’s going to act any different in the fat tissue (despite it being in triglyceride form, which I won’t bore you with). The result is a soft, oily fat in the belly fat of the pig (where bacon comes from). So soft oily, in fact, that it is impossible to cut into bacon, but by god, it’s healthier.
This science and common-sense nutrition lesson has been brought to you by my classes in animal science, animal nutrition, and basic biochemistry, and the Penn State College of Agriculture currently educating a kid from the Philly suburbs with farming knowledge he didn’t think he’d ever learn or have to know for a degree in science. ;-)
Dude, I’m the resident Food Scientist.
You’re making me look like crap, here.
Penn Staters belong at Penn State. The problem with a lot of kids is they just don’t know they are Penn Staters yet. -jesse. @ BSD
by TheK-GunNeedsReloaded on Jun 15, 2009 1:19 AM EDT up reply actions
My apologies
I went into science mode, and I couldn’t help myself. And honestly, there’s what, like three people on this site who know what the hell I just said and have it make some sort of sense? That’s how bad it is. I’m currently looking into some sort of support group to help with this. I’m actually surprised I remembered half of this from my classes this year.
I’m assuming that since you didn’t correct me, most of what was there was correct. At least we both received a consistent (and excellent) education from PSU and the college of Ag.
So what you're saying is
that after reading K-gun’s post, getting excited and eating 2.5 lbs of bacon, I’m probably going to have a heart attack?
by Screen Name 20 on Jun 15, 2009 7:38 AM EDT up reply actions
no
You’re probably going to have an awesome attack.
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by psu on Jun 15, 2009 8:11 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
In that case
I’m going to finish the other 0.5lbs.
by Screen Name 20 on Jun 15, 2009 8:34 AM EDT up reply actions
I totally understood what you wrote..
Bacon is good for you. Right?
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
Battle
We need a Food Science-off between the two of you, last man standing takes the crown.
Whoever confuses me the most wins.
I don’t care what they say. They use big words. I’ll be having bacon for breakfast, lunch, and supper.
DO YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE, DANNY?
"I hope after touchdowns this year all our players just point at Zug." - jtothep
by ReadingRambler on Jun 15, 2009 9:35 AM EDT up reply actions
Unfortunately
It wouldn’t be much of a battle, as my Food Science knowledge is limited, he’s the one with the food sci major, I just had a couple classes. I just beat him to it this time.
It’s true, I have a piece of paper that tells me I know Food Science. (holds up diploma)
And for the sake of confusing Rambler, the Maillard Reaction is actually what gives caramels their color, not caramelization, though both are examples of non-enzymatic browning.
/drops mic
Penn Staters belong at Penn State. The problem with a lot of kids is they just don’t know they are Penn Staters yet. -jesse. @ BSD
by TheK-GunNeedsReloaded on Jun 15, 2009 7:37 PM EDT up reply actions
You have big words empty from mouth
DO YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE, DANNY?
"I hope after touchdowns this year all our players just point at Zug." - jtothep
by ReadingRambler on Jun 16, 2009 12:58 AM EDT up reply actions
Boo, Debbie Downer!! Boooo
Which Philly suburb? I’m from Hatfield – yes, the pork town. Every Saturday morning, at the old factory, they would do some sort of pi-processing procedure that made the entire town smell like bacon. Heart attack by bacon inhalation.
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
The smell
made it’s way all the way to Lansdale, too.
by Screen Name 20 on Jun 15, 2009 8:32 AM EDT up reply actions
^ pig-processing
(Since pi is already perfect)
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
Philly Suburb
I’m in the opposite direction of Philly ‘burbs. I’m in Delco. We have little to know farms or pig processing plants (as far as I know).
I wish I could give "negative" recs
since I don’t think “Flag for inappropriate content” is the right thing to use (despite your LIES being VERY inappropriate)
BACON = health food!!! (I choose to believe what I want to believe)
by The JuggerNitt on Jun 15, 2009 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions
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“You’ll be doing you body a flavor!”
AMIRITE?
Im done, sorry it is very late.
Black Shoes.
Basic Blues.
No Name.
All Game.
No, you are not right
DO YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE, DANNY?
"I hope after touchdowns this year all our players just point at Zug." - jtothep
by ReadingRambler on Jun 15, 2009 9:09 AM EDT up reply actions
that... is simply awesome
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member
by TheMightyErik on Jun 16, 2009 2:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, that goes on my list of "Ways I'm Okay with Dying"
"...You know, Reemer, someday I'm gonna own a big sports bar."
Bacon now available!
Bought a sandwich in Wegman’s the other day and there was a big sign that said “Bacon Now Available”. Too bad my phone/camera was in the car, since I thought of all of you.
"If you let the men in you've got to let the women in. I don't want a bunch of women walking around in my locker room when guys take showers". Joe Paterno
GASP!
This just made me just realize: what if we’ve been misinterpreting Jesus curing lepers all these years! People have been worshiping a possible cannibal for 2000 years! He could be the Hannibal Lecter of religious deities’ mortal manifestations! OH NO!
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