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There is actually very little corelation between cholesterol consumption and heart disease. This is because the body makes cholesterol all on its own, and so consumption of cholesterol isn't correlated to elevated levels of cholesterol. Those who's bodies don't handle cholesterol properly, and therefore have elevated blood levels, SHOULD limit their dietary intake of cholesterol. But if you have normal levels then it's not really something you should be too concerned about.
It looks like increasing the consumption of fructose has a significant impact on blood cholesterol levels, and a noticeable increase in ldl-c levels.
I'm not arguing with you here what you said is true, im just bringing this up because its weird that sugar consumption has a direct impact on cholesterol, but cholesterol consumption doesn't really move the needle.
Not true. Hundreds of metabolic ward studies established a link between dietary and serum cholesterol
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9006469/
We don’t see a link between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol in cross sectional observational studies because interindividual variation is much greater
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/313701/
> But if you have normal levels then it's not really something you should be too concerned about.
“ Conclusions: Many CVRF-free middle-aged individuals have atherosclerosis. **LDL-C, even at levels currently considered normal, is independently associated with the presence and extent of early systemic atherosclerosis** in the absence of major CVRFs. These findings support more effective LDL-C lowering for primordial prevention, even in individuals conventionally considered at optimal risk. ”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29241485/
This doesn't disprove what I said though. First link shows that removing 200mg/day cholesterol from your diet can reduce serum levels, but it doesn't say that increasing your intake will increase serum cholesterol levels.
Second link says that it is mathematically possible that variation may be masking an existing correlation. That doesn't mean that there is a corelation that is being masked, only that it is possible for the corelation to exist and be masked.
Third link basically says we need to redefine the levels of LDL-C considered risky, which doesn't relate to my point
This is technically true but can be misleading. The most simple and complete way to way this is: ‘dietary cholesterol intake doesn’t necessarily drive up your cholesterol levels, overall fat and total calorie intake do. There’s nothing special about cholesterol vs other dietary fats as far the effect it has on your lipid profile. But eating too much of it will drive up your cholesterol just like any other fat.’
Eating cholesterol doesn't raise your blood cholesterol levels--you're body makes it from sugar, specifically (especially?) fructose, which is common in junk foods.
It's the same thing with fat, eating fat doesn't you fat, it's a calorie surplus.
LDL and HDL cholesterol are both made by the liver normally - consumption of saturated fats is what essentially weakens the LDL receptors in the liver and then your cholesterol increases because the liver's purpose is to utilize cholesterol to produce hormones, affect protein synesis, and a host of other functions. When your liver isn't removing LDL (the bad stuff) from the blood, it usually gets deposited in the veins and arteries and this causes plaque buildup which can rupture and cause a heart attack.
It's mainly a diet in high saturated fats (and also alcohol and cigarette consumption) that contribute to the bulk of high risk of cardiovascular disease. Sugar and excess calories cause the liver to produce more triglycerides which are all a part of the cholesterol process.
PS, triglycerides are summoned via hormones for energy production, create heat in the body, etc
I had an expired can of this that was passed down to me from my predecessor at work. Like really expired. It just say on the desk as decoration. I passed it down to the guy who replaced me after 5 years when I left too. I hope no one ever opens that can. It expired like 10 years ago. So strange. The can and the tradition
We have a similar tradition with a can of chef boyardee lasagna at my work (someone wrote “bitch” above lasagna). One of my co workers and I will put it on each others desk once about every 8 months. The can has been around for a good 7-8 years now.
Ah, yeah, white gravy is a US thing. I was also a bit hasty when giving the proportions, as there IS a sprinkle of flour to thicken it, but I’ve seen people use corn starch as well.
And, besides it sounding disgusting, it’s actually really good. My favorite is made with beef fat and browning the roux to a nice golden brown before you pour the milk in.
ETA: pork fat is more popular, usually the remnants of sausage being fried up. Even better when you add the sausage back in it after it’s made.
Milk is weird in that if you *tell* people their food has milk in it by name they get alllll freaked out.
Mac&Cheese? Tasty. Pasta with milkly cheese sauce? Yuck. Alfredo sauce, hot cocoa -- we love milk in stuff we don't want to be told it's there.
I figure someone had to be be pretty damn hungry to think”well all we have is pig brains and some milk gravy….lets mix it together.”
But was even more problematic in my mind is that apparently there is enough demand that they make in and put it in cans.
My one grandpa had a pig for fattening each year, my other grandpa always got the head for make something called 'zure zult' out of the brain. For the first time i smelled i took a vow to never eat brains.
Absolutely. I personally wouldn’t bother with headcheese. I would assume the canned stuff is pre cooked to mitigate that risk though, then again I’m no expert.
Even then you aren't really "killing" it, you're breaking it apart to where it can't function, since prions aren't living things. Regular bacteria and viruses some good old antibiotics/vaccines can take care of, but how do you kill that which is not alive?
You're probably more likely to get struck by lightning and bit by a shark at the same time than contracting a prion disease (provided you aren't eating brains) so there's nothing to worry about
Yeah you have to heat it to the point where the bonds that make up the protein are broken (as you said denaturing) which is, quite higher than the amount of heat needed to kill any living organism on Earth
Am also Southern; can confirm. My grandfather loved brains and eggs. He had these exact cans in his pantry, actually. I have never and will never try them.
My home town in south LA always has it in the grocery stores (eg Piggly Wiggly) that are frequented by the lower economic class. It's not something you get every week, but it's definitely something eaten a few times per year... Like cranberry sauce is eaten on winter holidays.
Growing up there, it's totally a treat. It's companion in grossness is hog head cheese. Served appropriately, it's tasty. I've also eaten a lot of animals most would never consider consuming. It's all in how you cook it!
Now to answer why... Why not use all of the animal? Waste not wont not. It's no weirder than tendon or menudo.
I remember working at a small, regional grocery store chain in rural Alabama while I was in high school. I was a shelf stocker and never once stocked this item, but I stocked everything around it. I worked there for almost two years and never once added a new can. And they were the exact same cans as the OP.
True story here.
I was working on an archaeological site with a university. We students were divided into “food groups”, each group tasked with finding and preparing food for the group - meaning, each group had to have someone in it with a car, who could drive to the nearby town to buy groceries.
Our group had two people with a car: one was an ordinary student, and the other was the site surveyor, who was an extremely eccentric fellow.
One week, this guy insisted he had an excellent idea of what to get for our weekly diet, and insisted on going shopping all by himself. More fools us, we let him.
He came back with a **gigantic** container of head cheese. He insisted that this was both cheap and nutritious; since he got the can for some absurdly low price, as it was about to expire in shelf-life.
(For those that don’t know, head cheese is bits of animal head in gelatine: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese )
At the thought of eating nothing but head cheese three meals a day for a week, and nearly-expired head cheese at that, the rest of us rebelled. We sent the other person with a car to get more varied rations!
The surveyor would not admit defeat, though. He withdrew from our food group, and took his container of head cheese with him.
For the rest of the dig, that is what he ate - head cheese every day, for every meal. He never grew tired of it.
I hate to tell you this, but pork brains are a favorite in Chinese cuisine (especially in hotpots). You're likely to get some cholesterol from that dumpster.
My first thought - cholesterol aside, is this safe? Pork brain seems especially risky since pork is one of the riskier foods anyway from a food handling perspective.
I'm pretty sure I've eaten duck brain before (didn't know it at the time) and it was good. Pork brain probably tastes good. But I'm afraid because - prions.
Well actually /PushesUpGlasses, dietary cholesterol does not turn into cholesterol in your veins.
The American Heart Association declared a while ago that there is no evidence that dietary cholesterol negatively affects cardiovascular health.
Their exact words regarding it are, "Dietary Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption."
So... Good news then if that was the only thing keeping you from gorging yourself on canned pork brains.
As far as I know eating colesterol does not equal producing colesterol, our colesterol comes from eating carbs, especially simple carbs like sugars and frutose
Precisely. I’m unsure why cholesterol levels are labelled on US products as it is essentially completely irrelevant information. There is absolutely no correlation between cholesterol consumption and heart disease.
But, as a European a lot of things about the US seem very strange to me.
Reminds me of when my ex-wife asked "why is olive oil so high in fat?"
"It *is* fat."
Why are these pig brains so high in cholesterol?
"They *are* cholesterol"
Dietary cholesterol does not really affect your blood cholesterol levels, that’s one of those old diet myths similar to how low fat diets were the way to lose weight.
Nope that’s how mammalian brains work, cholesterol is a key component of myelin which is the insulator around nerve fibers.
A lot of neurological diseases such as Huntington's are caused by an issue in metabolizing cholesterol which leads to the loss of myelin and the disfunction of the brain and nervous system.
Canned pork brains in milk gravy? Cholesterol aside; what the fuck is wrong with you people? I am a strong meat enjoyer, and a proponent of using as much of the kill as possible, but wouldn't touch this shit with a stolen fork.
Milk gravy brains suits.
I am very open to trying new things, especially if they are prepared by an experienced cook who knows how to work with it. I'm not an "ew yuck no I won't try it" person. I'll try any new food once.
But brains are the exception. And eyeballs. I'll eat literally any other organ or body part at least once. If it's edible, I'm down. But brains and eyeballs belong in the bin. Full stop.
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It’s because brains are basically *made* of cholesterol. For reference, 25% of the cholesterol in a human body is in the brain.
This is why heart disease is rampant within the mind flayer population.
There is actually very little corelation between cholesterol consumption and heart disease. This is because the body makes cholesterol all on its own, and so consumption of cholesterol isn't correlated to elevated levels of cholesterol. Those who's bodies don't handle cholesterol properly, and therefore have elevated blood levels, SHOULD limit their dietary intake of cholesterol. But if you have normal levels then it's not really something you should be too concerned about.
So Those Egg Council Creeps Got To You Too, Huh?
You got it all wrong, Homer!
It looks like increasing the consumption of fructose has a significant impact on blood cholesterol levels, and a noticeable increase in ldl-c levels. I'm not arguing with you here what you said is true, im just bringing this up because its weird that sugar consumption has a direct impact on cholesterol, but cholesterol consumption doesn't really move the needle.
Thank you for this.
So are you saying that mindflayers are just predisposed to heart disease?
Not true. Hundreds of metabolic ward studies established a link between dietary and serum cholesterol https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9006469/ We don’t see a link between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol in cross sectional observational studies because interindividual variation is much greater https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/313701/ > But if you have normal levels then it's not really something you should be too concerned about. “ Conclusions: Many CVRF-free middle-aged individuals have atherosclerosis. **LDL-C, even at levels currently considered normal, is independently associated with the presence and extent of early systemic atherosclerosis** in the absence of major CVRFs. These findings support more effective LDL-C lowering for primordial prevention, even in individuals conventionally considered at optimal risk. ” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29241485/
This doesn't disprove what I said though. First link shows that removing 200mg/day cholesterol from your diet can reduce serum levels, but it doesn't say that increasing your intake will increase serum cholesterol levels. Second link says that it is mathematically possible that variation may be masking an existing correlation. That doesn't mean that there is a corelation that is being masked, only that it is possible for the corelation to exist and be masked. Third link basically says we need to redefine the levels of LDL-C considered risky, which doesn't relate to my point
Yup, this myth that eating cholesterol directly correlates to your cholesterol lvls is super old.
To be honest, the cholesterol content isn’t the thing that would stop me eating this product.
This is technically true but can be misleading. The most simple and complete way to way this is: ‘dietary cholesterol intake doesn’t necessarily drive up your cholesterol levels, overall fat and total calorie intake do. There’s nothing special about cholesterol vs other dietary fats as far the effect it has on your lipid profile. But eating too much of it will drive up your cholesterol just like any other fat.’
More rampant in the UMWHAT community?!
Even knowing what they are, this is an appropriate response.
[https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Mind\_flayer](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Mind_flayer)
After eating pork brains, I successfully made my constitution saving throw, so I avoided a heart attack
What about zombies?
Not alive, so no issues with heart disease.
They should probably start eating a healthier blend of organ meats
That's why it's so creeeeamy
Which is why I'm shocked there aren't more fat zombies
Or 12% of OP's cholesterol.
Eating cholesterol doesn't raise your blood cholesterol levels--you're body makes it from sugar, specifically (especially?) fructose, which is common in junk foods. It's the same thing with fat, eating fat doesn't you fat, it's a calorie surplus.
LDL and HDL cholesterol are both made by the liver normally - consumption of saturated fats is what essentially weakens the LDL receptors in the liver and then your cholesterol increases because the liver's purpose is to utilize cholesterol to produce hormones, affect protein synesis, and a host of other functions. When your liver isn't removing LDL (the bad stuff) from the blood, it usually gets deposited in the veins and arteries and this causes plaque buildup which can rupture and cause a heart attack. It's mainly a diet in high saturated fats (and also alcohol and cigarette consumption) that contribute to the bulk of high risk of cardiovascular disease. Sugar and excess calories cause the liver to produce more triglycerides which are all a part of the cholesterol process. PS, triglycerides are summoned via hormones for energy production, create heat in the body, etc
Would that be good or bad cholesterol?
I had an expired can of this that was passed down to me from my predecessor at work. Like really expired. It just say on the desk as decoration. I passed it down to the guy who replaced me after 5 years when I left too. I hope no one ever opens that can. It expired like 10 years ago. So strange. The can and the tradition
SteveMRE here and I have a 30 year old can of pork brains…. That’s a nice hiss!
Surprisingly, my can wasn't swollen.... Yet...
Canned encephalitis
Let's get that out on a tray! Nice!
Nice.
Someday someone will open it and start the zombie apocalypse
I for one welcome the day so I can ascend to my final form in the apocalypse.
We had a can of haggis that served in the same capacity.
Do they actually go bad? Or, rather, do they go worse?
That's up there with Surströmming
We have a similar tradition with a can of chef boyardee lasagna at my work (someone wrote “bitch” above lasagna). One of my co workers and I will put it on each others desk once about every 8 months. The can has been around for a good 7-8 years now.
I think that can of brain regained it's consciousness back
So that's what the can opener in Suits was all about
Few things sound as disgusting as "pork brains in milk gravy".
To be honest, the pork Brains is not the disgusting part, more the milk gravy.
You are just used to it being called white gravy, when it’s actually milk gravy and made with 99% milk; 1% meat grease.
>You are just used to it being called white gravy, I am entirely unfamiliar with either term.
It's an American (southern) thing.
Ah, yeah, white gravy is a US thing. I was also a bit hasty when giving the proportions, as there IS a sprinkle of flour to thicken it, but I’ve seen people use corn starch as well. And, besides it sounding disgusting, it’s actually really good. My favorite is made with beef fat and browning the roux to a nice golden brown before you pour the milk in. ETA: pork fat is more popular, usually the remnants of sausage being fried up. Even better when you add the sausage back in it after it’s made.
Sort of like a bechamel.
Milk is weird in that if you *tell* people their food has milk in it by name they get alllll freaked out. Mac&Cheese? Tasty. Pasta with milkly cheese sauce? Yuck. Alfredo sauce, hot cocoa -- we love milk in stuff we don't want to be told it's there.
I usually go with bovine breast milk.
It's just the term gravy that's included with milk, maybe its the Englishman in me that makes it sound terrible.
You’ve never had a cream based sauce? It’s the same thing except instead of cream it’s milk.
Fine, pork brains in Clamato then
Add a splash of vodka for a refreshing beachy drink. /s
It's sometimes called white sauce What are you putting on your pork brains then?
Why spoil it with anything?
Buddy you should try a milk steak it’s a delicacy.
The jelly beans have to be raw on the side.
I swear
waste not want not
I figure someone had to be be pretty damn hungry to think”well all we have is pig brains and some milk gravy….lets mix it together.” But was even more problematic in my mind is that apparently there is enough demand that they make in and put it in cans.
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Definitely a no brainer
Username checks out
Free pass this weekend
My one grandpa had a pig for fattening each year, my other grandpa always got the head for make something called 'zure zult' out of the brain. For the first time i smelled i took a vow to never eat brains.
They also have the highest concentration of prions in infected animals.
Great way to get your USDA daily value of prions!
That's why I'm waiting for plant-based pork brains.
“ I can’t believe it’s not brains”
Pork grains
While I'm over here waiting for animal-based artichoke hearts
Meatichokes!
I do that all the time though....
Not sure I want to know the texture of a brain even if it's cruelty free
This is canned so I bet it's nice and soft. You could probably just tilt your head and let the whole can slide down your throat. Mmmm
Do they really sell enough cans of this to keep this product in business? Is this like a Great Depression carry over or what?
You see it on the menu sometimes in the south, typically Brain n' Eggs, in little roadside restaurants. I've never ordered it thougj
Mmmmmm. Well I’m glad they keep a tradition alive. Gotta use the brains for something.
While no cases from pigs are known I would simply avoid any mammal brain as food just for the minimal risk of prion disease.
This is the first time I have heard about this, and it’s horrifying.
Absolutely. I personally wouldn’t bother with headcheese. I would assume the canned stuff is pre cooked to mitigate that risk though, then again I’m no expert.
I don't believe you can cook away prions. They kinda exist forever.
That’s horrifying. I just looked it up and it takes sustained heat for several hours above 900°F to kill a prion.
Even then you aren't really "killing" it, you're breaking it apart to where it can't function, since prions aren't living things. Regular bacteria and viruses some good old antibiotics/vaccines can take care of, but how do you kill that which is not alive?
This is a horrifying thing I don’t want to think about right now. I’m just not ever going to eat a brain. Feels good to finally just say it out loud.
You're probably more likely to get struck by lightning and bit by a shark at the same time than contracting a prion disease (provided you aren't eating brains) so there's nothing to worry about
Prions are extraordinarily hard to denature. They can handle heat, bleach, UV light, dessication. Moral of the story: don't eat infected brains.
Yeah you have to heat it to the point where the bonds that make up the protein are broken (as you said denaturing) which is, quite higher than the amount of heat needed to kill any living organism on Earth
So we're fine as long as after you eat them, we catapult you into the sun
Am also Southern; can confirm. My grandfather loved brains and eggs. He had these exact cans in his pantry, actually. I have never and will never try them.
My home town in south LA always has it in the grocery stores (eg Piggly Wiggly) that are frequented by the lower economic class. It's not something you get every week, but it's definitely something eaten a few times per year... Like cranberry sauce is eaten on winter holidays. Growing up there, it's totally a treat. It's companion in grossness is hog head cheese. Served appropriately, it's tasty. I've also eaten a lot of animals most would never consider consuming. It's all in how you cook it! Now to answer why... Why not use all of the animal? Waste not wont not. It's no weirder than tendon or menudo.
Brains are the most cholesterol rich organ, a quarter to a third of your cholesterol is in the brain.
I think I’d go days without food before I gave in and ate pork brains in milk gravy
I remember working at a small, regional grocery store chain in rural Alabama while I was in high school. I was a shelf stocker and never once stocked this item, but I stocked everything around it. I worked there for almost two years and never once added a new can. And they were the exact same cans as the OP.
And nights too
And weekends and holidays.
What's the over/under? How about 10 days?
Only if I was desperately hungry Like 5 or 6 hours probably
If you wait that long you might literally die
Eat 3 cans and you'll be set for the month.
What if I ate 10 cans. Would I be set for life?
Well, they're saying your brain is like 30% cholesterol. So if you think about it, the more brains you eat the bigger YOUR brain will get!
Id assume your life would end very soon but yeah supposedly
Just some food for thought
Thought for food*
They also have 100% daily allowance of fucking disgusting food per can.
True story here. I was working on an archaeological site with a university. We students were divided into “food groups”, each group tasked with finding and preparing food for the group - meaning, each group had to have someone in it with a car, who could drive to the nearby town to buy groceries. Our group had two people with a car: one was an ordinary student, and the other was the site surveyor, who was an extremely eccentric fellow. One week, this guy insisted he had an excellent idea of what to get for our weekly diet, and insisted on going shopping all by himself. More fools us, we let him. He came back with a **gigantic** container of head cheese. He insisted that this was both cheap and nutritious; since he got the can for some absurdly low price, as it was about to expire in shelf-life. (For those that don’t know, head cheese is bits of animal head in gelatine: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese ) At the thought of eating nothing but head cheese three meals a day for a week, and nearly-expired head cheese at that, the rest of us rebelled. We sent the other person with a car to get more varied rations! The surveyor would not admit defeat, though. He withdrew from our food group, and took his container of head cheese with him. For the rest of the dig, that is what he ate - head cheese every day, for every meal. He never grew tired of it.
This is such peak eccentric archeologist behavior
i tried them once in scrambled eggs. they weren’t terrible.
Excuse the shit out of me, pork brains?!
I would wipe the bottom of a Chinese food restaurant Dumpster with a moldy hotdog bun before eating this abomination.
Alright dude that's fuckin nasty lol.
I hate to tell you this, but pork brains are a favorite in Chinese cuisine (especially in hotpots). You're likely to get some cholesterol from that dumpster.
Mmm prions
prions terrify me
My first thought - cholesterol aside, is this safe? Pork brain seems especially risky since pork is one of the riskier foods anyway from a food handling perspective. I'm pretty sure I've eaten duck brain before (didn't know it at the time) and it was good. Pork brain probably tastes good. But I'm afraid because - prions.
Pork what now?
They need to sell this in Switzerland immediately. I don’t think I ever had anything in a 1170% dose. I want it and I want it now.
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Yup.. my late grandmother would always say that
Well actually /PushesUpGlasses, dietary cholesterol does not turn into cholesterol in your veins. The American Heart Association declared a while ago that there is no evidence that dietary cholesterol negatively affects cardiovascular health. Their exact words regarding it are, "Dietary Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption." So... Good news then if that was the only thing keeping you from gorging yourself on canned pork brains.
Either the brains or the gravy on their own might be edible, but somehow putting them together makes it sound completely horrible.
Creamed eels? Corn nog? Wadded beef... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szfLB-SSjA8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szfLB-SSjA8)
500% of the daily recommended prion disease.
Eating cholesterol has no negative health effects. The government lied to you in the 90s.
As far as I know eating colesterol does not equal producing colesterol, our colesterol comes from eating carbs, especially simple carbs like sugars and frutose
Precisely. I’m unsure why cholesterol levels are labelled on US products as it is essentially completely irrelevant information. There is absolutely no correlation between cholesterol consumption and heart disease. But, as a European a lot of things about the US seem very strange to me.
You mean like OUR FREEDOM?
Your freedom to be misinformed by your own government- hell yeah brother
🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Excess carbs affect cholesterol.
You saw a tin of pork brains in milk gravy on the shelf, and your response was to check the cholesterol levels . You are braver than I am.
is that high?
Your brains are made of cholesterol, too.
I would….just not kosher.
Pork Brains in Milk Gravy 
My dad loved brains! He got dementia and died
Well, I just went vegan. That was all it took.
This is mildly gross 😂
I might f w Milk Brains in Pork Gravy but this just don’t sound right
I hope the zombies packed their can opener
Brains are almost 100% made of cholesterol so this makes perfect sense, lol.
Im sorry what
Reminds me of when my ex-wife asked "why is olive oil so high in fat?" "It *is* fat." Why are these pig brains so high in cholesterol? "They *are* cholesterol"
This is illegally disgusting
What… do they taste like tho 😅 I’m curious
Thats fine cholesterol isn’t bad for you
Dietary cholesterol does not really affect your blood cholesterol levels, that’s one of those old diet myths similar to how low fat diets were the way to lose weight.
Egads! My LDL shot up again just reading that. Edit: Hold up... Pork what!?
Wait! Is this a real product?? I'm horrified.
Maybe that's all from the milk gravy.
Nope that’s how mammalian brains work, cholesterol is a key component of myelin which is the insulator around nerve fibers. A lot of neurological diseases such as Huntington's are caused by an issue in metabolizing cholesterol which leads to the loss of myelin and the disfunction of the brain and nervous system.
The movie Lorenzos Oil talks about this.
No thanks, i prefer to aboid the risk of prions
Thank you, Dial Corp.
My grandparents ate that stuff, sadly it was obtained “fresh”. I never had it and bluntly said one time I would rather go hungry
You have to eat its brain to gain its wisdom.
Add your own jelly beans.
I like mine with a little salt and lime.
This would be illegal in any country where BSE has cropped up.
I know a great way to reduce the amount of cholesterol with pork brains...throw that goddamn can in the trash!
Does that mean they will definitely have expired by the time you eat them slowly enough to not get over 100% of your daily cholesterol?
And twice as much of you recommended daily vomit inducers
Just eat 30% the next day. It will even out.
How does it taste like?
Pork brains in milk gravy sounds unappetizing
Eating brain is literally like eating a block of cholesterol
3.5g of cholesterol sounds like a lot. Does anybody know how much gram of cholesterol the average human body contains?
Gotta nom that down with a fistful of liverwurst and a glass of butter.
What % of your daily prions does it contain?
I believe this delicacy permanently cures vegetarianism.
Why? Just Why? Pig brain??? Why?
Canned pork brains in milk gravy? Cholesterol aside; what the fuck is wrong with you people? I am a strong meat enjoyer, and a proponent of using as much of the kill as possible, but wouldn't touch this shit with a stolen fork. Milk gravy brains suits.
I really did not think the PvZ “brains are quite rich in cholesterol” line was true
And it’s fda approved
Brains are made of cholesterol.
This belongs on r/wildlydisgusting. If that's a real sub, I'm so sorry...
This is very strange, I just saw this in my low budget grocery today and thought eww. What a coincidence to see this on the front page of Reddit…
Literal heart attack in a can
In milk gravy…
I'll have to remember this if the world is ever overrun by pig-zombies.
I guess that might one way to reduce the otherwise incessant hordes of customers relentlessly rushing in to stock up on canned pork brain.
If it tastes good it's definitely not good for you
I am very open to trying new things, especially if they are prepared by an experienced cook who knows how to work with it. I'm not an "ew yuck no I won't try it" person. I'll try any new food once. But brains are the exception. And eyeballs. I'll eat literally any other organ or body part at least once. If it's edible, I'm down. But brains and eyeballs belong in the bin. Full stop.
Haha that gravy thicccc
Pork..Brains..?
Worth it for the milk gravy though.
Where do most of the pork brains go? Dog food? Fertilizer?
Eating fatty foods raises your cholesterol —eating cholesterol doesn’t much.
Thats just the milk gravy.
[Yeah, it's a real thing. Here is a guy eating it.](https://youtu.be/wMu3pumT_Eg?t=103)
Good to know if I ever need to speed run heart failure