[mountn man]

My grandfather was a farmer. Worked his entire life on his farm. He ate bacon and eggs or sausage almost all the time.

He died 3 months short of his 93rd birthday.

I guess if he didn't eat bacon and sausage, he might still be alive today.

[TheRhinelander]

Exactly. If you work hard it’s fine. If you’re a lazy fat ass, not so much.

I remember eggs being bad. I eat two a day every day from my own chickens.

[Aria]

Was the bacon your grandfather ate cured?

The nitrates put in store bought bacon aren’t so good for us.

[CrazyIvan]

“He died 3 months short of his 93rd birthday.”

Mine had the same lifestyle. He was still riding a motorcycle at 93. He made it to 96.

[memyselfandi59]

I too was thinking of my grandfather. They ate cured meats because there was no refrigeration, their meat staples were ham, bacon, and ham hocks for seasoning...lard for frying. They ate pork because it was cheaper to raise than cows, and as my dad tells it, you didn’t kill a chicken unless the preacher was coming for dinner (too valuable for the eggs they produced.)

Grandpa lived to be in his 90s. His favorite part of the ham was the “cracklin’;”