As disturbing as the image is all on its own, one Reddit user offered an even more disgusting tidbit about what goes on behind the scenes. In fact, several industry insiders revealed dark secrets about the meat and pork industries:
It's The Nipple Attached To The Pig… Gross!
“I almost feel bad admitting this, and I might even get down voted, but whatever.
“But when I worked in a high end retail, the butchers used to intentionally give the nipple bacon out to rude/abusive customers. Usually as a free sample. I personally found it pretty hilarious.
“For anybody who might get upset about this, let me state for the record that it is not dangerous to eat the nipple, it's entirely edible. It just serves as an unpleasant reminder of where food actually comes from, but is otherwise harmless.”
One Reddit who spent two years working for a free-range pork producer offered some insight into the matter, commenting: “It will be from a castrated male. The girls are saved for breeding, as are the castrrated males, though the females can be used as ground after their mothering years are complete.”
Bleck!
While this image certainly seems gross and very disturbing, it's apparently not all that unusual to find a piece of bacon with the nipple still attached. There may be nothing wrong with it, but we're definitely not going to eat it.
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Article & Photo Source: The Mirror
When I was a child, in the 1930s, it was common to find a slice or two of nipple bacon in a pound of bacon, even those prepackaged in karge, national packing houses. Maybe pig butchery has gotten better over the years.