"Bacon and Greens"

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Last week: Ham & bacon, next week: grapes & mustard, the week after: cabbage & liquorice allsorts, & so on.

Bad..... bad for you!....Ban it.

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Does no-one realise that 'experts' exist solely to perpetuate themselves??

Ignore them, & they will wander off & discover another "threat" to our existence, based on feeding two rats with eight tons of pork over 6 months, or some such. There are far worse ways of dying than by having the odd bacon sarnie.

When I read stories like this, new alarms/warnings etc about meat products of all kinds, I seriously wonder whether or not there is a hidden agenda. I suspect that in many cases the people or organisations that leak the story or actively promote the story are, in reality, trying to advance vegetarianism.

And....what did I read today?

"The British people face wartime rations and a vegetarian diet in the event of a world food shortage, a new official assessment on the UK’s food security suggests today.

Supplies in future may also be disrupted by animal disease outbreaks, disruption of power supplies, trade disputes and interruptions for shipping and at ports.

In the event of an extreme event, cereal crops would be used to feed the nation and ensure that each person received sufficient daily calories.

In the event of an extreme emergency the most dramatic consequence would be every person eating a predominantly vegetarian diet — more cereals, fruit and vegetables and less meat and poultry. Cereals used to feed farm animals would be shifted into human food production."

A World Food crisis? what food crisis?

I thought we paid farmers NOT to produce ?

Is this why we effectively have state control of certain prices ?

This is the most ridiculous piece of scaremongering I have ever seen. "Predominantly vegetarian diet" is being used as a scare tactic, when what they really mean is that we will be required to 'cut down' on meat consumption.

What a beautifully socialist report. Nothing that our current government does can affect anything - all the effects are global.

And immigration? No effect at all, apparently.

Now let me see....do I have music to match.....ah yes ....how about this?

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I have lived long enough to be rarely mistaken,

And had my full share of life's changeable scenes,

But my woes have been so laced by good greens and bacon,

And my joys have been doubled by bacon and greens.

What a thrill of remembrance e'en now they awaken,

Of childhood's gay morning, and youths merry scenes,

When one day, we had greens and a plate full of bacon,

And the next we had bacon and a plate full of greens!

This was published on Valentines day in 1859, and is one of the typical 'Foody' ballads prevalent at that time....a sort of hybrid song of 'pop' and 'folk' idiom.

Let's go to the other extreme......how about a....

"The Porkgasm"

Bacon strips, bacon sausage, ham sausage, ham slices, smoked pork sausage and roasted pork belly surrounded by ground sausage shaped into a pig, wrapped in bacon and roasted. Garnished with chili ears and tail.

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Wow!

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