UPDATE – Within two hours of posting this, a reader directed us to the Snopes page debunking this video and the worms/pork connection in general. In other news, this is still true:
Thanks to the unnamed reader for the heads up.
ORIGINAL –
Deuteronomy 14:8:
Worms, the other white meat! Actually, the soda might be more toxic than the pork… One commenter says, “I grew up on a ranch and I will verify that this is true. rowing up we came up with all sorts of gross and stupid things to do, but this was one of our favorites… yes, maggots and the like can travel in food.
Apparently, this even counts for some supermarket pork. There’s even video on this question. Disgusting, disgusting video.
Luckily – even though our Judaism is what one might call Hellenized – we don’t eat pig (get it – rhetoric… Hellenized… sigh). Why? Because pig’s a filthy animal. Dog’s a filthy animal too, but dogs have personalities. So score two points for kashrut guidelines against bacon.
But kashrut guidelines about how the only kosher steak is a steak that tastes like crap because all the blood’s been drained out of it? That’s just silly.
References:
* Fun food facts: pour Coke on raw pork, watch worms crawl out [addict3d pointing to a dead Boing Boing link]
Previously:
* High Tech Shabbat Cell Phone Makes Calling On Shabbat Kosher
* Kosher Steak Sucks
* Not Kosher
