Drinking Rum

Drinking Rum Without Gallbladder

Drinking Tanduay Dark Rhum

According to Wikipedia:

Rum is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses, or, directly from sugarcane juice, by a process of fermentation and distillation. The distillate, a clear liquid, is then usually aged in oak barrels.

Dark Rum, also known by the rum’s particular colour as brown rum, black rum, or red rum, classes as a grade darker than gold rum. It is generally aged longer, in heavily charred barrels. Dark rum has a much stronger flavor than either light or gold rum, and hints of spices can be detected, along with a strong molasses or caramel overtone. It is used to provide substance in rum drinks, as well as color.

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Eating Tocino

My breakfast dish was Tocino, a sweet soft pork tidbits.

But is the Tocino a food to eat for person without a gallbladder? Or a food to avoid for person with no gallbladder?

According to WikiPilipinas:

Tocino is a sweetened cured pork dish that is traditionally served for breakfast by the Filipinos. A native delicacy that is similar to the cured hams, commonly reddish in color and tastes sweet. There were some versions of tocino that used chicken meat. It’s name came from the Spanish word, tocino, which is used to describe cured meat.

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