She may not be bringing home the “bacon” this election.
Vice President Kamala Harris is under fire over her decision to celebrate the use of bacon as “a spice” while being interviewed by a Muslim influencer.
Harris, 60, chewed the fat last summer with Kareem Rahma, host of the popular TikTok and Instagram show “Subway Takes,” but the interview never aired, the New York Times reported Monday.
The show routinely features guests, some of whom are celebrities, defending an uncommon viewpoint.
Though he was initially told the vice president was going to argue against taking off shoes on airplanes, Rahma, who is Muslim and doesn’t eat pork as part of his faith observance, learned when the two sat down that Harris was instead going to deliver the take that “bacon is a spice.”
“I don’t know,” Rahma reportedly responds in the video interview, according to the Times, to which Harris replies that bacon can be used to enhance bland dishes.
“Think about it, it’s pure flavor,” she apparently said.
The disagreement led to Rahma pausing the interview and asking for Harris to return to the topic of shoeless passengers on planes, prompting the veep to instead talk about how she like anchovies on pizza.
“Well,” Rahma reportedly says in the unpublished video just before it concludes. “I’m 100 percent unsure on both of those.”
A firm opponent of the Harris-Biden administration’s support for Israel amid its ongoing war in Gaza, Rahma was already apprehensive about conducting the interview.
“It was so complicated because I’m Muslim and there’s something going on in the world that 100 percent of Muslims care about,” he told the New York Times. “And then they made it worse by talking about anchovies. Boring!”
“I never wanted to be a politics person,” Rahma added. “The more I think about it, the more I feel like I got lucky.”
The “Subway Takes” host has more than 928,000 followers combined on TikTok and Instagram and did release a separate interview with Harris’ running-mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who discussed how Americans are failing to maintain their homes’ gutters.
Two senior Harris campaign officials told the Times that Rahma had been forewarned that the discussion would touch on pork instead of politics.
The influencer and his manager told the outlet they received no such warning.
Reps for the Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
