I don’t understand these flaccid bacon people. Crispy bacon is clearly superior.

I posted this in a reply, but I'm reposting it here:

Bacon is already cooked when you buy it from the store (at least in america). The difference between "pork belly" and "bacon" is that bacon is cured and then smoked. That smoking process gets the temperature above the range to cook it.

Besides, even "chewy" bacon is going to get above the recommended pork cooking temp. It's so thin, it will reach that temperature very quickly. If it gets hot enough to start rendering the fat, it's definitely hot enough, and I have a hard time believing anyone would pull bacon out of the oven before it's had time to render some fat.

If you read the case report by the docs, they don't say "we think he got this disease from bacon".

Our patient’s lifelong preference for soft bacon may have led to instances of undercooked bacon consumption, but this would have caused him to develop taeniasis, an intestinal tapeworm, and not cysticercosis [1]. Taeniasis occurs when consuming undercooked pork and the larval cysts embedded within, while cysticercosis is contracted when humans ingest eggs found in the feces of other humans with taeniasis [1].

In other words, the brain version only comes from eating the eggs, which can only come from eating poop of someone who had the intestinal worms. They later specify that they think the most likely scenario is that he got the intestinal version, re-infected himself through the fecal-oral pathway, then somehow cured himself of the intestinal version.

Personally, I think the most likely scenario is that he got the parasite the same way you get any other disease that uses the fecal-oral pathway: contact with someone's inadequately washed hands, or eating food prepared by someone with inadequately washed hands.

Leela, I had worms. I needed to know who you loved. Me or them.

I'm wondering if this explains why my chewy-bacon eating father is a Trumper.

No, that's right. It's the fascism.

From prions to tapeworms, rare though they may be, I'm happy to be vegetarian even though I miss wings.

I, too, have headaches and eat chewy bacon... 😟

By candlelight I ate that pork I couldn't see danger on my fork Oh if you do love me completely Never again feed me food that will eat me

This sort of shit terrifies me because I definitely don’t cook my food perfectly each time

New fear unlocked

On one hand, cooking it thoroughly is probably a decent fix.

But...I wonder if irradiation would be sufficient to wipe out tapeworms?

https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazines/bulletin/bull8-3/08305702731.pdf

On the other hand, irradiated bacon has been approved for human consumption by the health authorities and is being processed commercially in the United States. In fact, participants at Karlsruhe were served such bacon which had been kept for 21 months at room temperature (20°C to 38°C) and showed no signs of deterioration.

That does sound promising.

And I just watched House m.d. 1 part of 1st season last week :)

Does the curing process not kill them? This surprises me.