Heavenly Unhealthy

It is very well documented that I love food invented by food scientists wearing fecal colored laboratory attire called apron and rubber gloves called bare hands. Philippines is known for diverse and creative food concoctions that can kill you while still smiling in delight.

Locally, pork is one of the most popular main ingredient and we all know over excessive consumption of pig meat can lead to many sickness and even deaths. Last year, I got a terrifying high blood measurement due to my insane daily habit of eating beef and pork, even in breakfast. As you enjoy indulging yourself with this kind of food, the cholesterol is happily doing his job somewhere inside your body.

Picture above: Happy Cholesterol

Good thing I managed to have my blood pressure lowered and reduced my weight as well. Still I sometimes eat pork food especially that but not as frequent as before, and I drink hard only if there is an occasion or rare reunions with some old buddies.

Here, in our dear old country, our fellow country men has one of the greatest and strongest internal organs ever. Even of all kinds of pork powered food you can come up with, they will still withstand every ounce of it, unless Grim Reaper decided to just effed it, clogged your arteries and add you to his collection of death by over abundance of waxy steroid metabolite, or simply cholesterol.

We are notorious of pigging out especially on big time event. Some people are finding any slight reason to call it as an occasion like a funeral of someone you only met a few times or get together like someone is going abroad the following day just to have a festive feast of munching fats and lard like there is no tomorrow. Even if you are running out of money you still need to throw your money just to eat deadly foods accompanied with dosage of alcohol drinks.

In the middle of alcohol training

Speaking of deadly foods, one of my most favorite deadly food is all time is sisig, and only recently I discovered and tasted the genesis of sisig. We had an ocular somewhere in Pampanga for a client event and later decided to find and have a hearty lunch at the holy grail of pig part’s goodness, the Aling Lucing’s sisig restaurant. We had a hard time looking for the restaurant since we are looking for the railway landmark. Luckily, we found it after a shirtless bystander pointed us to the eatery. The railway landmark was also nearby but we realized that it does not look like a railway anymore because all the metal railings were gone, probably chopped apart by the same shirtless bystander and sold to a metal junk shop to have another alcohol and sisig budget.

I already tried the self labeled best sisigs around the metro but I must say, the Aling Lucing’s sisig’s…. sisig is the best damn sisig ever. So god damn good, tastes different, so freaking good, so heavenly yet not healthy. There is something about their sisig that is so unique, everything is well prepared and not thrown together by a sweaty, fat pseudo-chef.

Even I was always in Pampanga especially during my elementary days, this is the only time I managed be graced upon with the Aling Lucing’s sisig. Unfortunately, Aling Lucing herself was tragically murdered in 2008 and the killer was her husband. Her daughter, which looks like Aling Lucing is now doing all the God’s work in their restaurant.

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Later, each one of us took one sisig take out for home and I introduced the Aling Lucing sisig to Rein, and when she tasted it, she starts head banging in delight, well not actually head banging but she enjoyed every minute of biting and digesting pig’s greatest contribution to humanity.

Remember, meat has still essential nutrients that enable us to do things that puts money on the table.Eating unhealthy foods that scuba dived in cooking oils should still be taken in moderation. We can still eat beef and pork for the sheer enjoyment of eating dead animals who are probably cursing with every curse word known to universe at us on their afterlife.