Is it normal to eat ham straight out of the packet?
I feel like an uncivilised savage when I do it, but I've started doing it anyway, after getting on the keto diet.
When hunger strikes - and it sometimes does, when you don't eat carbs - one finds himself in need of a snack. An open packet of sliced ham thus becomes eerily alluring; a roll of entwined slices - so delicious, yet so primal in this unrefined form - drags one's attention to itself, as if manifesting a disregard of its own existence; as if eager to satisfy one's hedonistic passions.
In but a few bites, the roll of ham, torn from is plastic packaging and its meaty brethren, becomes nothing but fuel for the great machine of life, death, and destruction known as "I", and the only aftermath - aside from the abated hunger's cry - is the mind's reflections on the measures a man must take to ensure his survival...
So how savage is it, exactly, to eat ham straight from the packet?