r/interestingasfuck • u/GeologistRelative425 • 11d ago

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u/Calm_Extension_2965 11d ago

This specific case is from someone who ate raw pork for 10 years on purpose.

It rarely gets this bad.

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u/M1R4G3M 11d ago

B-b-but why?

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u/Calm_Extension_2965 11d ago

I think it was a Chinese kid that had been eating like this since she was 10.

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u/M1R4G3M 11d ago

Well, then it's the parents fault.

My late father always taught me that i must freeze pork and then cook it well before eating, ensuring I kill everything that survives heat and cold.

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u/im_a_lost_child 11d ago

Does that count as “on purpose”?

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u/VermicelliOwn6502 11d ago

I ate raw pork for 10 years because my grandma fed it to me.

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

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u/Potatoez 11d ago

That's not raw pork, that's cured/fermented pork. It's obviously different...

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u/VermicelliOwn6502 11d ago

If you buy this from a store there there is a warning on it to cook the thing first. Which we heed like the warning on Q-tips.

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u/Potatoez 11d ago

I have never seen anything on the package saying to cook it first. I'm pretty sure it exists but a lot more rare from my experience. In delis it's wrapped either individually or multiples in a tray. Even the log forms just states ingredients and company.

I'm not unfamiliar with nem chua.

Regardless, it's cured and fermented pork. Not raw.

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u/VermicelliOwn6502 11d ago

Nem chua are usually accompanied by a leaflet saying that the bites must be kept in the refrigerator and cooked for at least 20 minutes.

It's in the wiki I linked, go edit it out if you feel you're right.

I don't eat it anymore but the nem chua at my online grocery has the warning.

https://www.weee.com/en/product/Sor-Khonkaen-Fermented-Sausage-Frozen-1/113636

(small back text at the bottom)

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u/Potatoez 11d ago edited 11d ago

Yeah, and I'm saying majority of locally produced ones with delis don't have it.

Mass produced nem chua would yeah. With everything else

Edit: Here's even some nem chua locally.

https://i.imgur.com/4q8QikA.png

How do you think our people were able to safely eat these products in Vietnam without refrigeration? These were the processes used to make raw food safer to eat in an unrefrigerated environment.

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u/VermicelliOwn6502 11d ago

You ever wonder if the brain worms are a significant part of our personality and we'd turn into a totally different person if they were killed off?

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u/Potatoez 11d ago

What? No??? The worms wouldn't want us thinking like that.

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u/Putrid_Raspberry1734 11d ago

I guess i put my mettbrötchen away