Where do you think bacon comes from?

[sp1814]

A third of 16-23 year olds don't know it comes from pigs.

A third don't know where milk comes from and...and...only two thirds knew that eggs came from chilckens.

Not so much a question as a 'sheesh' and a self administered slap to the forehead:

http://www.metro.co.u...acon-comes-from-a-pig

How can this be?

Don't kids watch Delia?

[jno]

<tries to figure out how Jayne answered Dave seven minutes before he posted>

[emmie]

sunny dave, not so much now, she has been on a diet. I can't stand her, she isn't a particularly good cook, and the stuff she often uses is way out of people's pockets.

[sunny-dave]

I think JJ meant "Si & Dave, the Hairy Bikers, are watchable too" ...

...rather than her having a time machine (or access to my brain) ...

[shaneystar2]

Si and Dave, Jno ...the Hairy Bikers .

[Hopkirk]

She's on first name terms with them.

[jno]

ah, so she wasn't addressing you in Spanish?

[sunny-dave]

Nigella is a dab hand at borrowing/adapting other people's recipes (but then I suspect that that is true of all chefs).

Her version of 'upside down chocolate pudding' (based on Nigel Slater's I think) is actually one on my favourite recipes though.

[rowanwitch]

Oh does she cook I thought she was just for looking at....

[ummmm]

Food Porn.

[rowanwitch]

Don't say that when I am eating a banana!

[Hopkirk]

Would you like a couple of plums, Roman?

[rowanwitch]

more an apricot girl ~Hopkirk... like the velvety skin

[Brinjal]

I dont know where they come from either. If I did I wouldnt eat them and I would go hungry. I dont hate vegetables enough to want to kill them either so I dont eat them.

[anotheoldgit]

It appears these kids were mainly inner city kids, so I bet they know where babies come from.

And it is not surprising that Muslim kids do not know where bacon comes from. :0)

[Mick-Talbot]

Why wouldn't Muslim kids not know where bacon comes from?

[jake-the-peg]

Oh for Goodness sake!!!

Haven't you guys got wise to this journalistic trick yet?


No the statistic proves that 1/3 of 16-23 year olds will give you a stupid answer for laughs to any survey

Journalists will then run off and write a story like this

Also seen in such staples as 1/3 of all kids think Winston Churchill sells insurance

[jake-the-peg]

By the way it's a journalistic staple because it flatters the reader

By telling them the younger generation is dumb and going to hell ihandbasetmakes them feel superior even if their own academic achievements were modest

[Mick-Talbot]

Ooooh really ?

Thanks for highlighting that .

[FredPuli43]

AOG, surely Muslim kids are most likely to know where bacon comes from, as will Jewish ones. It's the animal, not specifically named products made using its flesh, they are forbidden to eat. It follows that in seeing that they are not to eat, or do not eat, bacon or pork sausages etc they must know its from the forbidden animal.

This year's survey from LEAF is remarkable when compared to last year's. That showed that 50 per cent of adults didn't know that robins were permanently resident in the UK, 50 per cent thought bees made honey from pollen, 20 per cent didn't know acorns came from oaks, 40 per cent didn't know deciduous trees lost their leaves in Autumn and, of 18-24 year-olds, a quarter didn't know that tadpoles became frogs.Those were the highlighted findings in LEAF's press release. That this year a third of 16-23 year-olds have professed ignorance of far more obvious and commonly known facts than those, rather suggests that their professed ignorance was not 100 per cent genuine

[sp1814]

FredPuli43

Interesting points.

To be honest there are a couple (not saying which) in there that I didn't know.