Are they actually going to eat that ham?

I love South Park, but one thing I find weird is Mr. Hankey. He's a talking piece of poo that's associated with the holiday season, and he leaves little brown marks where he's been. In this scene from the 1999 Christmas special (Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics), he slid down a family's Christmas ham, leaving a brown mark where he went.

Personally, I wouldn't eat the brown bits because the poo is most likely to have E coli in it. There is no way in hell that I'd risk food poisoning by eating ham that Mr. Hankey, or any other poo, has been near, especially as the Rugby World Cup is next year, and we can't have South Africa cheating us out of the title again like they did in 1995.