Thread: This burns my bacon! More nanny state bureaucratic nonesense.

What part of the chicken is a nugget exactly? Apparently on Tuesday, I dodged the food police and got away with eating a chicharon sandwich on Cuban bread. Chicharon of course being straight up deep fried pig fat/skin. Yeah, it's not all that healthy but it sure is good. Hate to employ the slippery slope technique but this is probably just the beginning. Once we have "free" government funded health care it will get seriously out of hand. I can see rationing of alcohol and tobacco will just be outlawed (but wait who will pay for poor children's health care?). And we still have the stones to call ourselves Land of the Free!? Unbelievable!

That sounds delicious......

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

What part of the chicken is a nugget exactly? Apparently on Tuesday, I dodged the food police and got away with eating a chicharon sandwich on Cuban bread. Chicharon of course being straight up deep fried pig fat/skin.

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

That sounds delicious......

Oh trust me it was, quite delicious. Not those styrofoam type pork rinds either this was like real no kidding roast big skin and fat, it was glorious with a side of black beans and rice. I may have one today now that I think about it.

The media has a habit of transforming one thing into something else, I suspect that this is the case here and the story is presented in such a way as to make it newsworthy when it probably was totally benign.

A recent story about a school local to where I work made the news with the headline
Children left to freeze in the classrooms after head turns off heating on coldest day of year 'to show how school can be eco-friendly'
The true story is reported by the staff and pupils in the comments section. Apparently it was no where near the coldest day, no complaints were made and the whole thing was seen as a successful demonstration, but that wouldn't have been news worthy would it.

So.. Do I need to live somewhere with a large Cuban population to find this sandwich?

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Oh trust me it was, quite delicious. Not those styrofoam type pork rinds either this was like real no kidding roast big skin and fat, it was glorious with a side of black beans and rice. I may have one today now that I think about it.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

What part of the chicken is a nugget exactly?

I may be wrong, but I think it's the crotalus. Or the santorum.

Originally Posted by gugi

I may be wrong, but I think it's the crotalus. Or the santorum.

I'm pretty sure they're made of chicken lips.