Adam Ruins Everything - The Real Story Behind the Bacon Craze | truTV

The 1980s saw a spike in bacon sales when the National Pork Board teamed up with the fast food industry to turn bacon into a pop culture phenomena. #truTV #AdamRuins
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[@TheDeathmail]

Guys, Adam isn't saying you wouldn't have liked bacon without the advertisements, just that it wouldn't have been as worshiped as it was now. Also, he's not saying that people didn't know how it was unhealthy, the issue is HOW unhealthy...

[@generalhyde007]

TheDeathmail Everything in moderation.

[@actuallynotfunny4551]

Ppl are triggered because they love bacon

[@kidusmichael8242]

Also, Hardee’s is not the first fast food restaurant to sell bacon burgers. Jack in the Box began selling them as early as 1981

[@hattmannen5122]

THANK YOU!

[@NathanWubs]

People are dumb, hence why the sarcastic comment has more up thumbs.

[@schottybutitsspelledlikesc6860]

Wait, did he just say *bacon lube* ? We really finna ignore him saying *"bacon lube"* ?????

[@bowchickabowwowthatswhatmy3219]

It's a sick sad world

[@zac.bolin01]

Yes

[@Hitomankiri]

You know he did ;)

[@godlessgoth213]

I wonder if the lube comes in a jelly form.....bacon lubricating jelly

[@marasmus9278]

Bacon anal lube.

[@josephwolf7552]

Fun fact the popularity of Bacon helped Kevin Bacon's movie career

[@dddhhh2612]

so says jim gaffigan!

[@NWFBOY]

Nothing wrong with bacon ..

[@CandleCoveCast]

@@NWFBOY Except for the fact Adam mention that it can cause cancer.

[@GamingGardevoir]

@@CandleCoveCast it doesn’t cause cancer, it has a negligible effect on your cancer risk. See other comment threads for details

[@cianna4544]

"Start reading the comments and weep for humanity." 😂😂😂 facts

[@curtisbadio8836]

“Is he gonna chop his finger off?” “Worse, he’s gonna hit him with lobbyist money”

[@where_r_you6890]

Nooooooooo!!!!!

[@Ensensu2]

Should have gone with the finger, there's no way he can market that.

[@CIA_Killed_JFK]

This shows you how advertising can subconsciously make you love or hate something. I often question myself whenever I'm craving a certain food "Do I really WANT that, or was the thought placed into my head like inception?"

[@aguyontheinternet8436]

Is it possible to not _really_ want something, but still want it. Ads or not, if you want it, you want it.

[@CIA_Killed_JFK]

@@aguyontheinternet8436 but how would you crave a big Mac or a baconator if you didn't know about it. You only know about them for advertising. So when I crave a Jr Bacon cheeseburger I think do I really want that or am I programed to want that....

[@CIA_Killed_JFK]

@@aguyontheinternet8436 subliminal messaging is real and it really has effects on the brain.

[@TheAnnaShowUk]

Bacon lube: to help with your porkin’!

[@Ozukai]

"Time to make some bacon, baby!"

[@matthewbartke4424]

It is news to me than people don't know that bacon isn't a health food.

[@TheDeathmail]

It's not the fact that it's unhealthy, but HOW unhealthy...

[@SpaceStormy]

Fat isn't unhealthy as sugar and excess carbohydrates

[@ianp622]

It's really not that bad. An increase of 20% of colorectal cancer means your chance would have been 4% without bacon, and 5% with. Not that big a deal, I'd say.

[@connor4435]

Matticus Barticus it’s because those people are American

[@BigSlimyBlob]

I don't eat bacon, but any associated health concerns are relatively insignificant. Sugar is seriously thousands of times worse, and even ordinary bread is less healthy than bacon.

[@jeffwei]

Thank God someone finally addressed this. I've always wondered why people are so obsessed with bacon. I mean, it's ok I guess, but people seem to go crazy over it.

[@q_rty2178]

jeff wei how are you verified

[@noyes8882]

@Mr Herbet nope he’s really verified

[@JamesLeeBuzz]

If you handed me bacon and I never once had seen an ad for it prior to eating it for the first time, I'd still love it as much as I do. It's just straight up delicious.

[@davidarruda8400]

Uh idk maybe because it tastes good

[@frostrangerofthefrozenrelm]

Ikr? Bacon is OK, but it isn't THAT good lol

[@therealcaesar3157]

3:20 of course eating one every day is going to be a health problem

[@benjimcdowell1627]

@@DirtyRottenTaylor maga😉 one day you'll see

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Right but if you think about it, that's not THAT much. One could eat a hotdog one day, pepperoni pizza the next, then absentmindedly have some bacon with breakfast the next day or a bacon cheeseburger. Now that I'm looking through my own diet, I'm realizing that I'm eating this processed meat, way more often than I thought.

[@kross278]

And unfortunately, some people still do it

[@red_dll]

@@PaulTheSkeptic How about some vegetables and fruits and just less meat in general? Or fresh fish.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

@@red_dll Yeah sure. You can come over and cook me some fresh fish. Lol. I'm recently, as they say, back on the market. Therefore home cooked meals have become a bit scarce around here. But that's just me. For others, yeah, go for it. That sounds great. My point was only that it can be easier than one might think to eat this stuff more often than you might think. Because that was my first thought too. "More than once a day? Who eats THAT much processed meat." Well as it turns out, I do. Lol.

[@feetgoaroundfullflapsC]

1980's Reagan Era also pushed to use more chemicals in lawns and gardens. While pushing to stop warnings of cancers from it. Adam should make a video about that too.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I do always get so confused what people's obsession with bacon is, like it tastes okay I guess and even the people who always talk about, are the people I never see eat it. How can you obsess so much over something you hardly eat.

[@unLargoEtcetera]

I also don't understand that. I mean, it tastes good, but just a little. It's too salty for me, so I don't like to eat that much. There are way better things in life. But, hey, it's a meme.

[@domandal3015]

Legit pork belly by itself taste better than bacon, and while fatty, at least isn't super processed as bacon is.

[@maargenbx1454]

I’m one of those people. I genuinely love bacon, but it’s not a healthy food. I have it so rarely that I don’t feel guilty (for health reasons) when I do have it, and also I don’t get tired of it. I say I don’t feel guilty for health reasons - more and more I feel guilty about eating meat at all, but that’s about the animals, not my health.

[@maargenbx1454]

The22726: Interesting. Do I have to make it myself or can I buy it?

[@jeffwei]

Thank you for saying this

[@Sam89365]

Whenever I have to share a fun fact about myself for work or something I always say that I don't like bacon. People literally gasp and it's so funny 😂

[@soulchorea]

Next up: Adam Ruins Vegetables

[@DirtyRottenTaylor]

By shoving them up his..... Well you figure it out.

[@rageracerriley9590]

Already done...

[@GHOSTbirdnatureLOVER]

he did ruin corn

[@bioman1hazard607]

He just did an episode saying bugs are good and in vegies all the time

[@TommWayfarer]

Veggies are in fact carcinogen if they are Processed like Quaker Oats.(Glyphosate) It is not the food , it is the chemicals the process uses on it. Including meat, you vegans.

[@612Tiberius]

That butcher is a character actor in a lot of TV and movie roles; the one I most remember him from is in an episode of "Star Trek: DS9", as the head "muscle enforcer" henchman behind an early 1960s-era seedy casino/night club mobster owner, in a booby-trapped Holo-suite program.

[@STAROMEGA54]

Badda-bing Badda-bang

[@theriseofthefreg2687]

59% of vegetables taste better stewed. *You* can't *change my mind.*

[@pasafish8093]

eggplant - tastes better fried or in eggplant parmesan potato - obviously fries and mashed potatoes cauliflower - mashed cauliflower is really good you should try it, also baked onions - caramelized onions have no match *fight me* lettuce, actually most leafy greens - taste better in a salad and gross in a stew, they get all soft and mushy fruits - don't stew fruits. please. please. squashes - in ravioli tomatoes - idk if tomato sauce counts as a stew but tomato sauce with meat carrots - yeah ok. chives - on top of things, or in eggs beans - in burritos also nice pfp

[@robertstetcu1143]

Carrots are better raw, tomatoes too You can't change my mind as well

[@rizkidjakaria9570]

I've heard of Bacon ice cream. That sounds G-R-O-S-S

[@StevenF620]

“Someone must warn Kobiyashi” 😂

[@BrockLee3]

I saw that guy walking into a restaurant once. I looked back thinking, "WTF? Was that Kobiyashi?" When I turned around, I saw a giant bulge in the back of his pants and thought he was smuggling a grapefruit. However, now, I know it must have been prostate cancer from all those hotdogs...or he just crapped himself. "I think an eating contest is really just the beginning...of a crapping contest." - Demetri Martin

[@porbet]

We actually looked at the bacon causes cancer thing in my stats class. It is super misleading. It may increase cancer risk in a statistically significant way, but the effect size is nothing. It’s like going from a .01 risk to 0.012 (not actual numbers, but an example). Misleading stats can scare people, and that’s not cool.

[@killcrap1]

pls source?

[@matthewmaxwell2408]

Ok, eat a pound of bacon then run a marathon

[@zoutewand]

​@@matthewmaxwell2408mind of a child

[@ainomm]

*laughs in Muslim*

[@maestrulgamer9695]

Why?

[@terminalsarcasm]

Ok best comment

[@wandaperi]

Normie U-Akbar !!!!!!!!

[@TheMaxiglass]

Vegan atheism > Halal Islam

[@amalia7513]

fistbumps in vegetarian

[@TheLowBrassDude]

As per usual, bad decisions get their start at Hardee's

[@demon515]

Unless you live on the west coast.

[@robodadinosaur5138]

Put more on Netflix

[@skullton3292]

this is on Netflix?

[@robodadinosaur5138]

Sir Overlord I know, that’s why I said put *more* on Netflix

[@skullton3292]

@@robodadinosaur5138 I didn't know it was on Netflix that's why I put a question mark at the end.

[@RhyperiorRanger]

Netflix is actually missing most of the episodes

[@stewbott8042]

I never thought to check to see if it was on there thank you

[@MadameLucario]

Lol I was never really a fan of bacon so seeing this makes me laugh quite a bit.

[@generalhyde007]

I’ll repeat this saying until I die. EVERYTHING IN MODERATION!!!

[@camilacarnevale2152]

Would you say smoke in moderation? Probably not. NO CARCINOGEN IS GOOD IN MODERATION. And no amount of animal cruelty is good in moderation. There's zero scientific evidence to back up what you'll "keep on saying until you die". So yeah, keep on saying that, and you'll probably stop saying it sooner than you expect.

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

He addresses that at the end of the show while eat a plate of nachos with bacon, avocado, and corn!

[@icedtiga5943]

Crack too? xD some things you should completely stay away from

[@marasmus9278]

@@camilacarnevale2152 of course there's no evidence to back up his statement, it's literally him saying something you dumb bimbo.

[@Redmanticore]

well, you can propably eat a big plate of different vegetables every morning, and its not doing you any bad.

[@aujastone7264]

I've only ever eaten bacon once... Hell I don't even remember what it tastes like.

[@majestical15]

The Pork Board is also Mr. Gas Man from Dumb and Dumber 😂😂😂😂

[@thegoodstuff6130]

How did they know that he had gas? Always bugged me 😂

[@ArabKatib]

LMAO!! THE COMEDY LEVEL IN THIS ADAM RUINS EVERYTHING SKETCH IS TO THE ROOF!!!!!

[@axnyslie]

I went vegetarian a year ago and don't miss it one bit.

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

I like how we blame a fast food chain called Hardee's but the reality of it is is the pork industry had started this blitz about bacon back in the 1950s through your grocery store and how they did that was they marketed bacon as part of breakfast but not just any breakfast it was marketed as the breakfast of farmers when in fact most Farmers really didn't eat bacon and eggs for breakfast!!

[@Riley-te3mk]

It actually started just before the depression and kinda had a hiatus because no one could afford anything and then resurfaced after and came to popularity in the 50s. They've been trying to force bacon for the last century.

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

@@Riley-te3mk no it started literally post-war. Though I will say that blacks and others ate it pre war it was cheap and most people didn't want it. The only other people that can ate it, were Farmers thoygh it is more of a treat to them but as far as people in the city going to go to the grocery store no bacon was considered trash pre war. Pork rinds was either a treat or considered bar food.

[@SmokeBloody]

"lobbying"...what a polite word for bribery I'm still waiting for an episode where Adam Ruins Capitalism

[@axeldornelles5292]

All episodes are about Capitalism.

[@RebetikoWalrus]

That will never happen, and we KNOW why.

[@maestrulgamer9695]

I will do it. Capitalism is basically just overgrowing corporations where you either get slaves or turn into a slave. The End.

[@Im-BAD-at-satire]

It's a contextual word, not a polite one.

[@RealGhostPhantom]

TRUETV, bring back this show!! We need new episodes of Adam Ruins Everything every Tuesday at 10!!!!

[@EmeraldOverseer]

I am always late to school watching these videos

[@killedbyLife]

In the comments: Meat eaters bragging about being fact resistant.

[@ivonastrukar4715]

Correction *fatty meat eats*

[@its.albert.510]

Yessssssss

[@demon515]

I’m sorry I can’t hear you over the loud bacon I’m frying.

[@iamthepocketironpocket1889]

Watching the hate comments fly! "How dare you assault something as arbitrary as meat product, that I have put a personal attachment on and therefore think that it is a part of my personality! I'm healthy! I also ate paint chips and turned out fine, according to my rose-colored, ego driven view." -they said Or you could just be wrong and accept that. So you can grow and learn and develop yourself.

[@iamthepocketironpocket1889]

@@thedood7930: I said, "Watching the hate comments fly." So there's one. And the 'quote' was from 'they'. Its a joke, dumbass. Completely hypothetical. There are people in the comments that are mad that bacon has these issues attached to it. A lot of people can never accept that they've been lied to or are wrong. I'm making fun of them. Thanks for being the first to comment on this trap though. I knew there'd be at least one sucker to have the sarcasm go completely over their head.

[@iamthepocketironpocket1889]

@@thedood7930: Because you said I'm wrong when there was no concreat statement (at least nothing that would offend anyone who can think), and because you said it was a poor excuse for a straw man, and because you called me an idiot. You also called me juvinile and a 13 year old. All of these= hate comment. I didn't even say anything that actually mattered. Why would you even bother? Is humor that troublesome to you?

[@iamthepocketironpocket1889]

@@thedood7930: I called you a dumbass and a sucker in the second comment, so by your own logic, you can't count that. And it wasn't a hate comment because I might be wrong, its hate because I didn't make a statement that could even be argued against. What was I wrong about? That there are hate comments that exist? That can't be it. The "quote" is meant to be wrong, so it can't be that. The last statement is a suggestion, so its not that either. Wrong about what? You just wanted to fight.

[@stepanfedun9122]

@@iamthepocketironpocket1889 No, you comment can still be a hate comment He never said it can only be a hate comment if it's the first one ffs

[@fyrelorde]

Fact fiend goes into more detail on how they made bacon famous as a breakfast food.

[@eboooo]

Great show in television. Hes like our real life Ms. Frizzle

[@louiseah7662]

I love bacon, but I seriously didn’t realise people went this over the top with it!!

[@tommytomthms5]

4% increases to 5%..... OMG L0OK IT INCREASED BY 20%!!!!

[@Lewa500]

It's all fun and games until you get heart disease, cancer or any other fried meat related illness.

[@bunnygirl8]

That'd be a 25% increase, not a 20%... You're the second person in the comments I've seen make this mistake, it's like y'all don't know maths

[@tommytomthms5]

@@bunnygirl8 so you're still proving that their wonkey math is even worse! and they do it intentionally.

[@renzuki5830]

@@tommytomthms5 Yes, but it's still scary in absolute numbers. You can't roll the 1% die on too many things in life that kill you or it will very quickly add up. Like other people mention it also works multiplicatively. It's an additional 1% if you don't eat any other processed meat. Also: The chance of contrating HIV by having sex with a HIV positive person is roughly 1%. You wouldn't mind right ? Just 1%.

[@theocean1973]

Thanks for pointing this out (even though that would be 25%)! When people say it increases your chances *by* 20%, that's an increase on the original small percentage chance. People act as though it increases your chances *TO* 20%!

[@skunktheshrink]

2:52 and 5:00 true for a lot many U.S. "traditions"

[@garywindus6670]

They forgot to mention bacon toothpaste and soap

[@MotleyStew]

Loved that guy in Dumb & Dumber. I was kind of hoping he'd pop a fuse and have his ulcer attack! PMSL

[@josephbradley42]

2:45 maybe they were named after Kevin Bacon

[@someguy2135]

Just ask Kevin's brother, Bacon Bacon.

[@lynnwest4307]

He forgot about the bacon dental floss and bacon toothpaste LOL

[@dogcowrph]

Thanks for making this. I don’t think I’ve eaten bacon since the seventies.

[@demon515]

I haven’t eaten bacon since last night.

[@kendanger6874]

"Someone must warn Kobiyashi"

[@tomsky4751]

Ken Danger QUICK WE MUST WARN HIM BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!

[@tinothee8650]

He also said the same thing about sugar in previous episodes. In fact, he said it was worse than animal fat. You know, I’d like to see him ruin veganism. Just to round things out.

[@doubled6490]

veganism: The ideology of eating more stuff made in rainforests instead of just lowering your carbon footprint by avoiding plastic and metal.

[@EmperorKagato]

@@doubled6490 a majority of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes are grown here in the US

[@efrenchen293]

Double D Not really how that works. The cattle industry requires huge amounts of land and resources, so meat causes deforestation more than just eating plants. That argument is common but ineffective.

[@theprfesssor]

People don't realize that the Vegan lifestyle is a developed world lifestyle Where in the United States do bananas grow???? pineapples??? coffee???? quinoa??? coconuts??? and many many other Vegan staples, that means they have to be transported here somehow most likely with fossil fuels and even plants that do grow here if the majority of people were vegan you realize how much demand for such products would skyrocket increasing it's price and reducing availability I'm not even sure if they know how much you have eat on a vegan diet most plants are naturally low in calories They talk about how much water and other resources livestock uses, yeah they use a lot but when you find a plant that has as many calories as meat does per pound you let me know

[@manchee3]

@@theprfesssor Just so you plants are much energy efficient than animals inherently as you feed plants to animals. Those animals then use the energy from the plants to grow so the VAST majority of the energy goes into the cow growing. While you are right that meat is more caloric per kg it is still far less energy efficient overall

[@Rostam-vk9hx]

The more and more I watch Adam, the more I'm convinced he's read Peter Coffin's book: 'Cultivating Identity'

[@uncleubi9008]

Says eyyyy in advertisement

[@poojaverma9875]

"Someone just warn kobayashi.." 🤣🤣🤣

[@madisonharding-white7597]

I found it quite misleading that it was said that bacon causes cancer at one point in the video. Later on, you do clarify that you meant that bacon increases risk of cancer but this is not the same as cause as you previously said. I think this is misleading- the difference between risk and cause isn’t obvious

[@snibbles5532]

You could say standing in radiation causes cancer. There's a 57 percent chance if you stand in certain levels of radiation every day. This is the same. Something being able to cause something is just cause. Even if it's only a percentage

[@joseluisnietoenriquez6122]

Still, the smell of fresh bacon cooking is amazing. One of my oldest memories is me waking up on a sunday and walking into the kitchen to the smile of my parents and the smell and sound of bacon cooking and fresh made pancakes... (not store-bought pancake mix, but fresh made from scratch) And I don't even live in the USA, I live in Mexico City! Sure, eating bacon daily wouldn't be good, but indulging occasionally I think it's worth the risk.

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

You have a thing is is I enjoy cooking from scratch too I really do but four years it's Ruth me nuts that everyone seems like they go out of their way to talk about how they cooked this or that from scratch and it's not a box mix.... The funny thing is is even if it is a box mix who really cares it's not really any different all they did was put the flower in the box for you and then tell you how much to use whereas the person that came up with your homemade recipe told you that you're going to need this amount of flour and other ingredients and you got to put it together yourself but the recipe is roughly the same I mean it is a pancake at the end of the day after all why is everyone wasting all this time putting a extra special emphasis on how they didn't buy a box of mix does everyone think that it gives them more skills or that it makes them look more skillful in the kitchen?? I mean I could totally follow what Aunt Jemima has to say on her recipe just as much as I could follow what my grandmother's recipe says ones just a little more convenient than the other cuz I don't know it's got the flower right there in the box!! of course I always figured this if you can't make homemade biscuits if you can't make homemade pancakes then you really are a moron on the other hand I've often thought that if you can't follow a recipe then you're a moron because they're telling you exactly what to do no matter if it's great grandma whoever that wrote it or it's on the box there's really no difference!!

[@user-ik6ok4hg1b]

I love this show

[@tahraethestoryteller6079]

Everybody: bAcOn LuBe? Me Bacon bandaids? I see an infection in your future

[@danielwalters2971]

2:44, does that include Kevin Bacon?

[@NightShift-ci5vn]

Next vid- Adams ruins breathing

[@DJK5364]

@@BrutallyHonestRevs once you start breathing, if you stop for just a few minutes, you'll die. Breathing. Not even once.

[@ganeshpatra5478]

Breathing is most addictive thing known its really dangerous once you stop its consumption you will die usually within few minutes

[@mypkamax]

_"But I'm so good at eating hot dogs!"_ _"Someone must warn Kobayashi!"_ What?

[@KarelPletsStriker]

Pop culture meme factory is my favourite word now

[@keen99]

Show this video to Jim Gaffigan lol

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

A bit of an over-exaggeration on the "bacon causes cancer" bit. Any item we consume is poisonous at the right dose, even stuff that is healthy for you (he stated this when talking about toxins), the item found in Bacon that is most commonly thought of to cause cancer is the Nitrates used in the curing process, the same process nitrates does to cure the bacon also makes free-radicals that can damage DNA, but the fact is you would have to be eating a lot of the stuff to cause any issue, (the U.S did this for the army to try and decrease male labeto). As an apprentice funeral director, I have more of a risk for cancer from my job than from eating a baconator on occasion, heck pouring gasolene can cause cancer, that's why its called a risk and not a guaranteed outcome. The fat in bacon is gonna cause more harm in the sense of acid reflux than the nitrates are, as long as your arent living off bacon all day every day you aren't gonna see any real negative effects. But don't take my word, I am not a scientist on the subject, I am just giving my opinion. Just fact check both sides of the argument before forming a conclusion.

[@elliotlehtonen]

The cancer risk increases from 5% to 5.9% which is an 18% increase but the way he presented it was a little misleading

[@JessicaWiklendt]

The Office! It took me 4 mins to figure out where I recognise the butcher from!

[@brycevo]

Needs more Bacon

[@alohaazzie8462]

“Bacon causes CANCER!!” We here for a good time, not a long time 😂😂

[@someguy2135]

Speak for yourself. In addition to living longer, eating right means living healthier for the time we are alive. Hard to enjoy life if you are sick.

[@m2heavyindustries378]

I'd prefer both thanks. You're Welcome to pick one or the other

[@magnificentmetamorphosis6547]

I would like to know more on this topic can you please list the sources you recieved your information from?

[@someguy2135]

Google World Health Organization + processed meat.

[@boydmerriman]

Now for "Adam Ruins Vegetables"!

[@ales4423]

when you've watched cowspiracy years ago so you already knew this

[@someguy2135]

That was more oriented to the environment. Check out the documentary "Forks Over Knives."

[@yziquamizzle]

This makes me want to eat bacon more.

[@yuuuuuu5635]

Norman Fong greedy pig.

[@sogghartha]

You WANT colon cancer??

[@goldenhourkodak]

The corporations love you!

[@182supermario]

Oh my god, I'm not the only one, but maybe it's because last night I most perfect slices of bacon I've ever had, it was light, crispy, and looked exactly as the product should, it was just like a Potato Chip

[@isaiahbyrd4554]

But....cancer

[@mk3a]

Jack in the Box started serving bacon on their burger as early as 1980. Both then and now, it’s not that much bacon but rather enough.

[@Niekard]

Literally, #1 food people bring up when they find out I don't eat meat. "WHAT ABOUT BACON THO, DURRR."

[@borsistephen]

Can you ruin yogurt

[@makaramuss]

I doubt he can no doubt it has harms milk dont have but usually it has benefits too that you can use milk dont have as result its a tradeoff... like everything you eat.

[@borsistephen]

@@makaramuss I heard it's not as beneficial as they say it is

[@wandaperi]

Yeah, it is similar to #kombucha

[@spacebike420]

I think bacon sold itself. Have you tried it?

[@workless4681]

does it taste like chicken?

[@TRtherocknroller]

I have. Tastes like burnt car tires

[@Cuban_Pete06]

Adam:With eating bacon it can increase the likes of getting cancer 75% of the population: Am I a joke to you

[@RaphaeLoh01]

My background covers half of Asia, one of which is Hakka... we specialise in pork and love pork belly! And we're not even in the top 50 countries with the highest cancer deaths?

[@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodo436]

It’s processed meats that’s the problem

[@nickanthropocene6502]

There are many factors. Bacon is one. A lack of exercise is another. And an overabundance of sodas is yet another.

[@Michelle_Schu-blacka]

He pretty much destroyed the entire meat industry. At the end of the day, it's all processed.

[@RebetikoWalrus]

Nonsense.

[@benjimcdowell1627]

I just now literally made a very delicious bacon sandwich and I love it and going to have it again tomorrow

[@someguy2135]

Light up a cigarette to go with it. That'll show him!

[@Carewolf]

Bacon was ever out of fashion? What about English Breakfast and BLTs? This is a really nutty US centric.

[@kustomkool]

I spy the great Mike Starr at 1:22!

[@Strawhat_Kal]

*Laughs in vegan*

[@chancer9170]

I’ve probably had bacon in my life less than 5 times and I never liked it and this is weirdly affirming

[@harryj6876]

Ok it might be because I’m an Australian and our health and food laws are much stricter but I thought most people would already know about half of that stuff. Also I had no clue so many bacon products existed

[@aguyontheinternet8436]

Bacon lube, for when you REALLY like bacon

[@JaxLittles]

::Links on every Keto page and site:: And now we wait

[@Ari-kv3ci]

be right back, gonna go eat some bacon

[@dr.whippersnatch7200]

Bacon smell gives me headaches. Im gonna try to cut it out.

[@karlnagorite8997]

Man i didn’t know Riz/Kugrash and Fabian/Kingston love bacon so much

[@Mr-Drill201]

I don't care if it gives me cancer I love bacon

[@zabdielito6733]

Why are all the things I like cause cancer

[@breadcrumb6197]

“If you eat a club sandwich or a hotdog every day” if you did that you would be obese and very low on money

[@BigSlimyBlob]

These things aren't actually that expensive (unless you're crazy enough to buy them from a restaurant, of course), but all that bread would definitely give you very high chances of becoming obese.

[@maryandchild]

with obesity, it doesn't really matter what you eat, it matters how much.

[@BigSlimyBlob]

Quite the opposite, it's all about what you eat. I lost 20 kilos because I didn't eat any carbs, and in that time I was stuffing my face with pork, eggs and lots and lots of butter. It's of course possible to lose weight by going calorie-negative even if you eat absolute garbage like sugar and wheat, but I wouldn't recommend it. There are really nasty side-effects and you'll likely regain weight very quickly unless you carefully start monitoring calories. It's better to just ignore calories entirely and simply eat things that don't make you fat. No sugar, no wheat and no corn is a really good start.

[@maryandchild]

@@BigSlimyBlob you literally could not possibly have lost weight without a caloric deficit. it literally is not humanly possible.

[@BigSlimyBlob]

@@maryandchild It absolutely is possible. It's absolutely insane to believe that the biological mechanics for energy use and storage are are simple as "calories in, calories out". Digestion is a billion times more complex than that.

[@PhilipJackson03]

Interesting how Bacon is literally now in low supply over a smart marketing plan.

[@jameson9000]

I'm shook...

[@aemt4u]

Actually Adam, bacon has been around since about 1500 BC. Long before fast food with have invented. And long before the "pork bord" so much missinform in this video.

[@muddlen7928]

Doesn’t matter if you listened to the video and not what other videos said you’d know that it doesn’t matter when it was invented but how it was sold

[@aemt4u]

@@muddlen7928 except, that's wrong too especially the claim that it's a processed food.

[@IsmailofeRegime]

@@aemt4u So you're saying there wasn't a push in the 1980s to market bacon?

[@tsuchang1]

BACON!!!!!! Mmmmmmmmmm, tastes good. OK, so it isn't so good for you, but that's OK.

[@someguy2135]

That's ok for your final meal before an execution. Otherwise...

[@itssaranggarg8632]

And now its time for "Adam ruins Vegetables"

[@metalfansavarani]

Adam is right like always

[@alexanderson6961]

“Even if you eat just 50 grams of processed meat per day, some estimates show your risk of colorectal cancer increases by nearly 20%!” Really, Adam? I normally like your show, but don't you think this is kind of disingenuous, ESPECIALLY after you did that segment on how being 40 or above may double the chance of birth defects, but only from 0.5% to 1%? In the _very article you cite_ (www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages), it says that eating processed meat every day can increase your chances of getting bowel cancer by 20%… but you already only had an average chance of about 5%. Meaning you'd have to eat processed meat *every day* for *decades* just to up it to a whopping 6%. And yeah, that's a big change in the aggregate, but it's still _really_ small on a personal basis, barely worth mentioning. Bacon is bad for you, sure. But let's not exaggerate and scare-monger like you so often accuse _everyone else_ of doing.

[@sfaxdan1740]

You know what.... I like bacon but don’t really crave or care weather it’s in my food But I’m not about to admit that to ppl because of the ridicule I’d get from my friends for not LOVING it

[@suryamgangwal8315]

A parody of this video could've been adam burning the bacon

[@tention6823]

Pfft this is all things we know already. It's just that bacon tastes good so we eat it regardless. I was worried this would actually make me look twice at it XD

[@lewisbae1326]

Well first of all to much of anything is bad. Just enjoy it in moderation and work out with balanced meals and you will be fine

[@camilacarnevale2152]

Would you say enjoy your cigarettes in moderation? Probably not. NO CARCINOGEN IS GOOD IN MODERATION. And no amount of animal cruelty is good in moderation. There's zero scientific evidence to back up what you say. A whole foods plant based diet is not bad, not even if you do it "too much". And how can you ENJOY eating a dead animal who was tortured his whole life and had his throat slit just because the system wanted you to eat his muscles and grease?

[@hyper4venom894]

I'm still going to eat bacon, I'm here for a good time not a long time ^w^

[@harikesanbalachandran7083]

People who live healthy feel better

[@someguy2135]

@@harikesanbalachandran7083 Right! Living healthy is just as important as living longer. Hard to be happy if you're sick.

[@sourishbanjo5037]

I’ve never had American bacon. And I’m glad.

[@karanbirgill8462]

As a brown man, everytime I've said no bacon people think I'm Muslim. It's easier to just say no rather than no thanks it's extremely bad for you.