FAGS!

[matsuki]

I stay away from rice or too much of it because "all those carbs" but I couldn't imagine living here with a rice allergy. DO any of your kids have that as well or did the superior Yamato rice digestion genes win out?

Ignorance is definitely bliss but but but bacon!! Also:

Pigs do not sweat but they are able to rid themselves of heat in other ways such as via their skin and through respiration. Because an animal does not sweat does not mean toxins build up in the body. Most pigs are fed highly balanced, nutritionally fortified diets and are kept in climate controlled facilities. They do not have access to anything that could be considered toxins. Even if they were able to get into toxins, the body rids them just as we do. Whenever we sweat, we do not think of that as our mechanism for ridding our body of toxins. Pigs have a metabolism very similar to ours and, thus, can cleanse themselves internally so to speak as we do. Pork is wholesome and you can be assured that it does not contain some mythical buildup of toxins. You can go ahead and enjoy that next great pork meal with no qualms.

[wagyl]

Personally, I prefer to take all of my meals without qualms.

Also,

[J.A.F.O]

I stay away from rice or too much of it because "all those carbs" but I couldn't imagine living here with a rice allergy. DO any of your kids have that as well or did the superior Yamato rice digestion genes win out?

Ignorance is definitely bliss but but but bacon!! Also:

Pigs do not sweat but they are able to rid themselves of heat in other ways such as via their skin and through respiration. Because an animal does not sweat does not mean toxins build up in the body. Most pigs are fed highly balanced, nutritionally fortified diets and are kept in climate controlled facilities. They do not have access to anything that could be considered toxins. Even if they were able to get into toxins, the body rids them just as we do. Whenever we sweat, we do not think of that as our mechanism for ridding our body of toxins. Pigs have a metabolism very similar to ours and, thus, can cleanse themselves internally so to speak as we do. Pork is wholesome and you can be assured that it does not contain some mythical buildup of toxins. You can go ahead and enjoy that next great pork meal with no qualms.

Haha Yamato bloodline must have won out with all but one so far (the middle oldest has sensitive skin not sure if it's rice related though plus she has that "Gaijin no kami") ... glad it didn't win out on anything else and get something weird like Yaeba teeth... Also about the pork I don't know anything about pigs. Like I said I was pretty traumatized by them as a youth, my boxing mentor was just the icing on the cake. Like religion and santa clause it's hard to get that shit out of your head when it's been planted there from such an early age.

Now when I lived in Palm Springs they had a pretty large Jewish population and the local grocer carried Beef Bacon... That was some damn good stuff!

[kurogane]

Yeah, kosher bacon is good stuff. Strange idea about pork being full of toxins; that sounds like an ole wives tale to me. Was your boxing coach black? I was amazed at the number of black Americans (military, ftr) I met in Okinawa that were effectively secular kosher; they called pork "dirty meat". I don't know if that is a common thing or not, mind. Could there be a reaction against it because it's also seen as poor people's food? Most Canadians I know that avoid pork give off that vibe, like people who won't take the bus for fear of being thought of as poor.

Anyways, condolences on your rice allergy. That's a pretty heavy matzah ball. Glad the kids missed it

[Samurai_Jerk]

Strange idea about pork being full of toxins; that sounds like an ole wives tale to me. Was your boxing coach black? I was amazed at the number of black Americans (military, ftr) I met in Okinawa that were effectively secular kosher; they called pork "dirty meat". I don't know if that is a common thing or not, mind.

I was wondering the same thing about the coach and his silly folk wisdom.

Pork is an important part of soul food and really popular with a lot of black people. You can't have a good BBQ without pork ribs or make black-eyed peas without a ham hock. Not to mention some of the more "exotic" dishes like pickled pigs feet. However, pork also got demonized by a lot of people in the black power movement because of the Nation of Islam and because of its association, fair or not, with slavery (slaves were fed pork so pork is bad). The result of that is there are a lot of people in the black community in the US who are neither Muslims nor militants but believe pork is dirty and unhealthy.

[kurogane]

Yes. Samuel L Fishburne in Pulp fiction, if memory serves. The guys I heard it from were officer class in Okinawa, of all places. And they were militant about that shiite. And I grew up with observant Jews. No Pork I get, but they were preachy about it. It all struck me as serious BS, as I munched my slow cooked pork rib. Then again, they were proper Americans, so my refusal to behave as told might have been part of it. And these guys were convinced I outranked them, even though I only rank if I don't shower.

[J.A.F.O]

He wasn't black but he did have that feel of coming from the poor working class. As the saying goes "Boxing has always been a poor mans sport." People think that it can be an easy way out of poverty although it's anything but. I was encouraged to get into it just to keep me out of trouble... idle hands and all that. The diet our trainer had us on was something similar to what Justin Fortune had developed at the Wild Card Boxing Gym but my coach was ok with poultry and milk just take it easy on the dairy. I think there was a lot of that mentality coming out of the 80's.

But you'll see a lot of superstitions in competitive sports especially fighting ones. We have a pair of cursed boxing trunk at the gym right now. The trunks had been worn in two different losing events. Nobody will fucking touch them and no one will throw them away. As if it would offend some evil spirit even worse by getting rid of them only make matters worse. Pure 迷信 meishin... but if you asked me to wear them in a fight I'd tell you to fuck off.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Yes. Samuel L Fishburne in Pulp fiction, if memory serves.

That scene in the "Pulp Fiction" was extra funny to me because about two years before the movie came out my dad and a black friend of mine had pretty much the same conversation over breakfast at my house when I was in high school. My buddy ended up eating the bacon though. The smell was just too good to resist.