A vegetarian friend in college tried some pepper pot soup thinking it was vegetable soup, remarked on the âinteresting texture of the noodlesâ, which we informed her were made from tripe. âWhatâs tripe?â she asked.
As others have already mentioned, there is turkey bacon and beef bacon, and of course vegetarian bacon, none of which are anywhere near as good tasting as pork bacon. I will buy turkey bacon sometimes, itâs not bad, but honestly slices of fried bologna are actually a lot more tasty as a bacon substitute.
That sounds interesting, actually makes me think of gyros, which are delicious.
âAlan Conway (1934 â 5 December 1998) was an English conman, best known for impersonating film director Stanley Kubrick.â
Conway was portrayed (quite effectively) by John Malkovitch in the 2006 movie Colour Me Kubrick:
If it doesnât have nitrites it isnât bacon. Smoked pork belly is good, but it isnât bacon.
Basically uncured bacon is a con job, at least most of the time. According to the FDA, If you dig sodium nitrite out of the ground, purify it, mix it with salt, and soak pork belly in it, then you have âcuredâ bacon. If you grow celery in the same dirt, let is suck up the nitrites, extract the juice, mix with salt and then soak pork belly in it, the FDA requires you to call it âuncuredâ. The FDA also does not regulate the exact amount of nitrite in âuncuredâ products, whereas the ratio of nitrite used for cured bacon is strictly regulated. So uncured bacon may or may not have less nitrite than cured bacon, but there is no way to tell. But it definitely has a reasonable amount to get the color and texture of bacon.
There may be some instances of uncured bacon that is really just smoked (which carries its own risks), but it is not that common, and not the majority of âuncuredâ bacon sold in grocery stores.
Yes and no, con artists are pretty interesting from a psychological standpoint, and lack of willpower isnât always incongruous with the traits required to be good at scamming people. In this case it certainly hurt, but in other cases it can make them appear more human, which can ultimately make them better at scamming people.
Sometimes con artists will even adopt an entirely affected vice or habit for the specific purpose of making people less suspicious of ulterior motives. I donât think Iâd chalk this guy up as a master con artist though. We live in the information era where people can look other people up online with very little effort, especially public figures like royalty. That, plus adopting a persona outside of your culture is extremely difficult to pull off, doubly so if you are impersonating someone of significant stature, and double that if it potentially involves having to speak, read, and write a language from that culture. I donât know if the guy learned Arabic or not, but chances are pretty good that if he did, he wouldnât have mastered it to the point where heâd be able to speak and write in a way that wouldnât raise suspicion from a native speaker.
What if Kosher Guy knows its pork but just says that after all his porky meals just to keep on âignorantlyâ eating filthy deliciousness?
Well it makes sense that it would raise some suspicion, but at the same time I know a handful of devout Muslims and Jews who donât really worry so much about obeying dietary rules. Itâs no different than any other outmoded rule in other religions. I mean, look at Christianity. The majority of people who get wary of other Christians for not following the rules of the religion tend to be among the worst adherents of the faith. Hell, most American politicians identify as Christians while simultaneously acting in the exact opposite way their faith dictates they should, and that pattern is far from exclusive to their station. Itâs not just little accessory rules either, they make exceptions to big ones like reserving judgment of others for their god, all of the ten commandments, and turning the other cheek.
A yuuuge example: Donald Trump identifies as a Christian, and harps on it to curry favor with his base. The Venn diagram of commonalities between Trump and Jesus is just two circles spaced far apart from each other. You might think, âwell, theyâre both mammalian male carbon-based life formsâ but if youâre a Christian and believe that Jesus was also divine, you canât take any of those things for grantedâŠ
His creds qualify him for a Trump pardon.
If you mean heâs never hobnobbed with the Bushs⊠then yes.
Thatâs the way I feel upon hearing someone cheated a casino.
Donât get too excited, I never said uncured! 
The OP referred to health concerns, so I was only addressing nitr*tes and fake smoke flavor.
Salt is perfectly welcome in this beautiful land of healthy bacon, (yea, yea, salt unhealthy for some, blah, they need to worry about a lot more than bacon!)
And while not relevant to the previous posts, you might be interested to know that with or without FDA approval, curing by smoke has been around pretty much as long as mankind has had fire.
I eat turkey bacon. No, it is not the same but tasty enough to eat for breakfast and probably a hell of alot healthier than pork bacon.
Every time I read about one of these scammers, I think of start-ups Iâve worked forâŠ
Thatâs quite a way to be introduced to tripeâŠ
That probably came into it - self-deception. I had heard a tale as well about a vegetarian who ate McDonaldâs cheeseburgers because she claimed she thought they were fake-meat. Uh huh.
Sadly, not so much. Less fat perhaps, but the carcinogen issue is exactly the same.
I at least made the effort to grow a Saudi-style beard, dammit.
Using the Instagram handle âprincedubai_07â when he was pretending to be Saudi ought to have raised suspicions, since Dubai is in an entirely different country.
I had a coworker who was a devout buddhist and therefore didnât eat meat. He was devastated when I told him that the imitation crab he ate every day for lunch was not crab, but was white fish. I felt bad.
Gotta have a shout out here for Spanish duck ham. Iâm not mad into the bacon (iâll pile into the cabbage instead), though my daughter would murder for a rasher so we have it in the house, but I like a bit of jamĂłn when in Spain and I accidentally bought duck ham once. If you like jamĂłn, Iâd say give it a go.
Depending on where/how they get the lactic acid, this bacon is Kosher, Halal and vegan:
(Was looking for Bacos; apparently theyâve been discontinued)
Reminds me of the âVegan Policeâ sequence from the excellent* Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010):
*Update: Excellent and charming.
That might be a way for the scammer to select for the gullible. Someone who actually knows that will likely be more resistant to the scam in the first place.
Got a Nigerian prince spam the other day referring to getting funds from Gaddhafi. Was tempted to reply and ask if that was a filter!
