On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:51:32 -0600, OmManiPadmeOmelet
> wrote:

>Is it just me? Is this, like, a normal smell for pork shoulde

Bacon has a "smell" just like roast beef, roasted chicken. lamb
<yuck>, cinnamon, cooked cabbage and feces.

Pork shoulder smells just like pork shoulder. Besides, if you cook
anything long enough....it will kill any latent bacteria....if you
think it blinked.