Hey, did anybody see the videos on break.com about the worms in the pork? Basically, it's a video that's supposed to show that if you pour coke onto uncooked pork, worms will appear. Supposedly, the acid in the soda makes the worms come to the surface of the meat. The video doesn't prove anything to me and I can send a link if you'd like... but just curious if anybody else has heard of this.

Nope never heard that and to be honest I think its piffle and even if it is true it wont put me off pork, yum! wheres the apple sauce?!

There are tiny worms present in all meat and some fish.. but the cooking process removes them all.

yeah. but Im not sure about the coke thing.

neither am I really.

Pork, and other undercooked meats can carry Trichinosis as well as a Pork Tapeworm.

Trichinosis can only be seen under a microscope, so pouring Coca Cola on it isn't going to net you any results.

Pork can also carry a type of tapeworm, however it's rare. I suppose pouring coke on a piece of pork might draw a tapeworm out, but you're going to waste a lot of meat trying to find one. The processing and farming of pork these days dramatically reduces the liklihood that you'll find a tapeworm in your nicely packaged pork chop from the grocery store.

It is recommended that you cook pork completely through, Trichinosis can be very dangerous and deadly. It's most commonly found in pork and wild game like bear. Last year, the CDC reported only 12 cases of Trichinosis.

Makes me glad I gave up meat, that is just gross.

would you mind butting your reference here on this information?

Just in case anyone was interested, I put the link up of the video that claims to show worms coming out of the pork when Coke is poured on it. Now before anybody turns around and starts ripping me about the video being a fake, I'm just showing it because this was the first I had heard of the urban legend and thought the video was "interested" at best.

Worms In Pork video

I remember when I was a kid, me and my brother used to pour washing up liquid mixed with water on the grass, and all the worms would pop up.

Coming to think of it, don't some people bake pork joints in coke?

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/porkworm.asp

It's false.
Worms will appear when the pork is rotten, but that happens with any kind of food.
And, in the video, it says "Rougly 2 hours later".
Yeah....right.

Edit: By the way...for the people who are not so smart, the last pic is a joke.

Oh, sorry, that's something I know from pharamacy school... you can likely verify the information on wikipedia and the CDC web sites .

"roughly" 2 hours is likely an under exageration. maggots take about 8-12 hours to develop. I'm thinking it was a few hours longer than 2 as well. The meat is likely rotten or starting to rot.

Freezing pork before you prepare it actually does a lot to kill any kind of parasite. I generally recommend that people freeze it before cooking it. I do.

Thank god for Snopes! there are microscopic worms in meats though

We eat so much "extra" protiens (read bugs, bug eggs, wormies) in all our foods, especialy if you get food from farmers markets. It's just how things go. Our gastric juices can deal with a fair amount of them.

I sobbed when i watched that person on that video waste that coke and pork.

True... but there is microscopic "bugs" on humans, too.
It's best to not think about it too much.

Coke does actually make a very nice glaze for ham.

Awwww, don't sob too much, the pork was rotten.... it's ok, it really is.

I work in a Meat Department, and before the meet is shipped to our stores, they make 100% sure with a body scan, cool technology that shows the inside of meat, that worms are not present in any beef, chicken, pork, turkey etc etc


no offense, but if that was the case, we would all have worms

So, no need to call the Mythbusters then?

I don't know about coke, but a girl once told me in school that she had seen that happen when her uncle poured ginger ale on a piece of pork. I guess this would motivate us to cook our sausage and bacon a little longer next time.

Ew. >.< No I won't think of pork the sameway. Now I'm going to stare at the pork instead of eating it.

Edit: No, I haven't heard of that.

ahhh, didn't even think to check snopes!

Snopes has info on this debunking it.

If the worms were that big you would see them when you cut into the meat, coke or no coke. Even though the video quality was awful they looked like maggots and he even called them maggots. Anyone who knows anything about maggots knows they aren't a burrowing parasite that would be present inside healthy, living flesh. Flies only lay their eggs either on something dead or sometimes in a wound...
Maggots aren't that hard to come by. Either he left that meat laying around somewhere until the flies found it on their own or just as likely he collected them from a piece of meat he set aside just for that purpose.

I've heard the UL before too. I've never tried it though. Being Jewish, I don't have any extra pork just laying around. Of course, I have on accasion used this little ditty to harass non-Jewish friends of mine though!

Perhaps not really relevant, but an interesting sidebar. Pork was a meat banned by many early religious groups, and consequently, some modern ones as unclean. Some Social -religious historians now believe this was a law based on the evidence that without modern cooking, refrigeration, and sanitation, pork was a comparatively dangerous meat to eat, based on many of the points raised in these posts. It illustrates how many religious laws were actually based on common sense observations of the time, even though the people did not have a scientific understanding of why some practices were dangerous. Of course these early societies did not have the advantage of "Coke" to test for worms either:)

ANother health problem is trying to raise large numbers of pigs in close proximaty to humans. The smell is unbarable and their waste is unsuitable for fertilizer. Not quite the same with sheep and cattle. They also smell but, not as bad and they make milk and fertilizer, they are more economical!

You don't even have to be in close proximity. We live in a smallish country town, surrounded by farms. There is a small piggery a few kilometers away. On a still, summer's night the smell wafting through the house is indescribable.

Yeah at my old place I used to live there used to be a pig slaughter house nearby and the trucks carrying the pigs would drive past and the smell was the most horrid and foul smell I have ever smelt.

I have heard bout there being worms in prok so u have to cook it really well. My hubbys dads friend ate pork that was not fully cooked and he felt really sick. It turns out that a worm had gotten into his brain. I dont know if he lived or not. Either way its scary and its things like this that make me want to turn vegetarian. lol.

Ok I'm sick now.

I eat tons of pork meat and I've never seen a single worm.

Ok this is pretty gross so if you have a weak stomach please be warned very iky...... I'm glad im not an Amrican

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hogzilla.asp

I'm sure it's just not Americans LOL

I agree, years ago when I worked in Newark, i would have to pass the slaughter houses...There was nothing more gross then that smell...It stayed with you all day..

That is all right. I don't eat pork. I refuse to eat pork for religious reasons and health reasons. Also, I dissected a pig fetus in biology and their organs are too human-like. Besides cannibals call us 'long pigs'

I like my beef medium rare.

I heard pouring coke in pork Is FALSE it does not make worms come out of pork.

But I do know that if you do eat bad mean, pork anything! That has worms in fact ITS TRUE they can infect your body. My cousin was in the hospital over a bad accident and we were in there and there was a man getting a operation. He ate some bad mean pork whatever it was that had worms in it and they traveled to his brain! They just eat your insides away!

GROSS SCARY!!! Got to just be carefull what you eat!

Gotta love Snopes.
Antways, I've tried it with some uncooked bacon... Nothing. It does taste a bit like Honeybaked Ham after you cook it, though. Mmmm...

I had pork chops for supper, they were lovely.
Cant stand Coke though.

What a waste of soda!!

I'm surprised some people still believe it's true.
I mean, so many people tried it, and they never saw a single worm.
And worms can't just...appear like that anyway.

Pork is bad for you any way... This is highly over rated. You shouldn't eat the meat of animals that eat their own fecal matter. EWWWWWW! That said... Pork the other white meat! (Does any one know what the first white meat is?

This is discusting they should be ASHAMED ...... MmMmM Coooookkkeee .....

I like pigs butt. It tastes goooood !

Heres another video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LIdUiCzdpY

Oh man that is sick. I'm not eating pig butt for a loooooooong time!

Thats Pretty Gross Dude How Could You Eat Pork Anymore.