A Third of Young advlts in the UK Don't Know Where Bacon Com : Othor Games

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:57 pm

You know, there comes a part in every parents life (at least it should), where you have to tell your kids that they are eating cute little animals. It's wrong not to inform your kids about what they are having in their everyday diet.

If they knew what they eat everyday, they might soon try eating the cats in the house!

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:43 pm

Stupidity knows no boundaries. It's like an ever-growing juggernaut that gains strength through contact.

The trick is to quarantine yourself off from it! While you have a chance. :dry:

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 4:11 pm

They were installed by the American government to make america look less stupid! :tongue:

Yep, classic CIA false flag operation, no doubt in conjunction with the Illuminati.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:13 pm

Stupidity knows no boundaries. It's like an ever-growing juggernaut that gains strength through contact.

The trick is to quarantine yourself off from it! While you have a chance. :dry:

But how? Whatever I do, wherever I go.... I'm there!

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» Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:32 am

But how? Whatever I do, wherever I go.... I'm there!

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I have that problem too. Other people can easily cope with me being annoying, they can just go away, but I'm stuck with it. And, damn, I'm irritating.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:14 am

I thought everyone knew bacon comes from the bacon fairy.

These things are suppose to be "understood" during early childhood.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:06 pm

Hold up, they ask 2,000 people and suddenly a third of the entire UK doesn't know where bacon comes from?

Riiiight.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:45 pm

Hold up, they ask 2,000 people and suddenly a third of the entire UK doesn't know where bacon comes from?

Riiiight.

It's supposed to be a representative sample.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 4:14 pm

I still find it alarming that there are people out there who don't know where bacon comes from. The fact that we can't tell what we are eating anymore is frightening.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:55 pm

personally, I doubt young kids would eat animals (especially given the massive amount of anthropomorphism in children's stories) So I guess their parents lied to them to get them to eat meat.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:31 pm

I am a little surprised I must admit, but in an era where some people don't even know who Freddy Mercury is I guess cases like this is to be expected.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:05 pm

I recall being confused by that as a kid: "why is it called a hamburger when it's made of beef?" Fortunately everyone calls them beefburgers.

I did eat a hamburger that was actually made of ham. It wasn't very nice.

Hamburger is a word that can describe people or things from hamburg, the sandwich's "ancestor" came from there, and eventually America made it what it is today.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:06 am

I am a little surprised I must admit, but in an era where some people don't even know who Freddy Mercury is I guess cases like this is to be expected.

Did he invent bacon?

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:47 pm

Did he invent bacon?

Yes, yes he did, he made it out of love and rock music.

and pigs.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:16 am

I am a little surprised I must admit, but in an era where some people don't even know who Freddy Mercury is I guess cases like this is to be expected.

I wouldn't be surprised if more Americans knew of Justin Bieber than Elvis, so don't be too ashamed.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:33 pm

I wouldn't be surprised if more Americans knew of Justin Bieber than Elvis, so don't be too ashamed. :smile:

Which is understandable because Elvis died 30 odd years ago, whereas Bieber is still alive and hugely famous.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:04 pm

Which is understandable because Elvis died 30 odd years ago, whereas Bieber is still alive and hugely famous.

But Elvis is Elvis, King of Rock and all that stuff and Justin Bieber is well Justin Bieber.

It's not so much that they know Justin Bieber more, but that fact that they have no idea who Elvis is.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:43 am

But Elvis is Elvis, King of Rock and all that stuff and Justin Bieber is well Justin Bieber.

It's not so much that they know Justin Bieber more, but that fact that they have no idea who Elvis is.

Elvis wasn't so much the king of rock as the king of rock covers.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:38 am

Unfortunately a lot of kids these days know nothing about what they eat. If it doesn't taste like plastic with added MSG and come wrapped in fat soaked paper handed over the counter to you in 0.24 seconds by a spotty teenager they don't class it as food. As a former chef and restaurateur this makes me despair not inconsiderably.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:18 am

Not for the first time but I am ashamed of my country again :sad:

I could understand more if they didn't know that venison came from Bambi what with it rarely eaten here but bacon is so popular it astounds me that people don't know where it comes from or even respect the animal enough that is feeding and nourishing them to bother knowing what they are eating

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:33 pm

I've heard stories like this before, and not just centered on the UK. Stupidity is global.

personally, I doubt young kids would eat animals (especially given the massive amount of anthropomorphism in children's stories) So I guess their parents lied to them to get them to eat meat.

My parents never lied to me. I've known I was eating animals my entire life.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:49 am

I don't see how anyone wouldn't know that they're eating animals. It's even evident in the cartoons.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:57 am

"Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin :tongue:

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:10 pm

"Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin :tongue:

Yes but some people are on the exact average, so it's not as much as half.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:46 pm

I also think those polls are suspect, in order to get sensational headlines.

At least this time it's about the UK. Though I wonder how many people in the US know where bacon comes from.

I recall being confused by that as a kid: "why is it called a hamburger when it's made of beef?" Fortunately everyone calls them beefburgers.

I did eat a hamburger that was actually made of ham. It wasn't very nice.

The name Hamburger is derived from immigrants (to the US) from Hamburg Germany. It's a bit irritating to me to hear people rename Hamburgers made form something other than beef by replacing the Ham in Hamburger -- like Turkeyburger, Veggieburger, Salmonburger, etc.

Similarly the name Frankfurter (ie Hot Dog) is derived from Frankfurt Germany.

I wonder how many people think Hot Dogs come from dogs. Come to think of it I wonder how many Hot Dogs do come from dogs.

I am a little surprised I must admit, but in an era where some people don't even know who Freddy Mercury is I guess cases like this is to be expected.

Did he invent bacon?

Wasn't that Francis Bacon?