You know what i love?

[Mollisol]

Thats a good one. I'll be 50 this summer. It's just amazing how differently we lived two or three generations back.

That's really not that long ago.

[Gingerbeard]

Mollisol Tell your G they found a way to remove the squeal from a pig.

PS-92 Pig Squealer Call (haydels.com)

[Mollisol]

My grandmother grew up poor on a Minnesota farm. When they butchered a hog she said, "the only thing we didn't use was the squeal.". Every part of that animal was used in some way.

[Bluey]

Mohammed sorted the problems with pork killing the Muslims rather easily. That was a huge public health issue prior to The Quran.

[Mollisol]

Trichinosis was the mostly pork born illness of the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis

[Gingerbeard]

No you don't...

[Bluey]

I see what you did there Gingerbeard

[Gingerbeard]

You down with rocky mountain clams?

[Gingerbeard]

...itchy... No issue with brain parasites... yet. Bluey ...something inside...
Next time your head itches, one of those transient itches that seems to move when you scratch, I want you to remember this conversation and focus on the 3% of your irrational fear that Gingerbeard might be right.
...itchy...

[Bluey]

Pork in all its wonderful varieties is a staple in my household. No issue with brain parasites either.

[Gingerbeard]

Does that come in tofu flavor? Can't get no brain worms from tofu.

[Ckbrew]

Canadian style bacon, my favorite, worms defeated.

[Gingerbeard]

Now, some of you may think brain tapeworms are not funny if you have ever thought about brain tapeworms at all. Really, you have to take it in context and know your audience.
I am not going to single out the baconeers around here. You know who you are. Those of us who are not you know who you are by the involuntary scratching of the head area where the brain is traditionally located.
Tapeworm larvae in brain linked to underdone bacon (bbc.com)

[Gingerbeard]

'Dad, why did you start smoking?'
'I wanted to be like the Marlboro Man, son.'
'Wasn't one or more of the Marlboro Man men gay.'
'Shut up, son. Go get me a Bartles and Jaymes.'

[Bluey]

I heard the Malboro Man was gay. Is that true do you know?