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Let me just say this. . . . . mmmmmmmmm, baaaacoooooonnnn. That is all.
lol, yep! There was a thread awhile ago about "what you would eat if you could eat anything" -- i.e., without worrying about calories, fat, etc. I swear bacon was on half the people's lists, and this was choosing from ANYTHING in the world!!! There was one poster, I wish I could remember who because he/she made me laugh, who had something like a four-course meal, and bacon was a part of every course!
And just an update: I had 5 pieces of bacon left (the 1-lb. package came with 17 so for me it was 6 + 6 + 5) so I cooked them this morning, then chopped up 3-1/2 pieces* and added them to a pan full of garlic and chopped onion in a bit of olive oil. I've been soaking a bag of 16-bean mix for the past two and a half days, so I dumped them out of the water (3rd or 4th batch of water) and into the slow cooker ... I then added a can of diced tomatoes (no time to chop up my own, too much to do today!) and some chicken broth and the pan of bacon/onions/garlic after I finished sauteing it, then started the slow cooker going on setting 2/3 (out of 5) -- this is a very old slow cooker! My kitchen, as you can imagine, smells great.
I will report back later today or tomorrow on how the slow-cooker bean-with-bacon soup turned out -- here's hoping for the best!
*It was supposed to be 4 pieces for the slow cooker, but, you know ...
Let me just say this. . . . . mmmmmmmmm, baaaacoooooonnnn. That is all.
Did you ever see the movie "Dutch"? It's about a man dating a woman with a son in private school. She is going through a divorce from some rich business guy and they have a spoiled son in a boarding school. The boyfriend (played by the dad from "Married with Children" goes to the school to get the son for the holidays and they do not get along. He takes him to a restaurant where the boy is being an obnoxious punk claiming "I can do anything you can do, but better." (or something close to that). The bf responds "I can do something better than you can...buy my breakfast."
The next scene are the two males in the parking lot with the bf belching while saying "Mmmm, nothing burps better than bacon!"
lol, yep! There was a thread awhile ago about "what you would eat if you could eat anything" -- i.e., without worrying about calories, fat, etc. I swear bacon was on half the people's lists, and this was choosing from ANYTHING in the world!!!
My spouse worked at a company where they would have "pot luck" breakfast each morning. Each person would bring in something. There was one guy that got there earliest every day and he would take ALL the bacon (about 5-10 lbs depending on who was on the schedule), literally. They were so disgusted with it that they discontinued this several years old tradition in the department. The funniest part is the guy doing it wasn't the one actually buying/bringing in the bacon!
Somebody just posted a price comparison on the Hawai'i forum on two identical Safeway weekend sales flyers, one for San Francisco and one for Maui, and one of the items was Oscar Meyer Thick Cut Bacon... $8.99/lb in San Fran, $9.99/lb in Maui.*
LOL If you're willing to pay 9 bucks for a pound of bacon in SF, what's one more buck to round it on up to 10.00 for a pound in Maui? No way would I buy it in either place at prices like that, but if I was willing to do so, no brainer I'd rather pay the extra dollar and be chowing down on it in Maui vs San Fran.
About a week ago I heard a story on the local news about a disease that was killing off a lot of the little piggies, therefore prices were going up. Who knows, they always seem to have some story to cover the reason they go up on anything. It wasn't but a couple of days after that our little hometown grocery had the full pound packages of bacon for $2.98. I didn't recognize the brand (Jones) but it looked good. It was cherry wood smoked and very lean. I bought a couple of packages and tried one. It fried up great (very little grease cooked out) and tasted really great (I always buy OM). I went back and bought several more packages to put in the freezer.
A couple of weeks ago a new store opening in our area sent out coupons for a free package of Farmland bacon, a 59 oz. (here we go again on the size reducing thing) of Minute Maid OJ and a dozen of eggs. I had never eaten Farmland bacon and it was only 12 oz., not the full pound, but it was good AND free, which really made it good!
Had a craving for bacon so bought a package at my local grocery store without noticing the price. When the cashier rang it up I saw it cost $6.29!! Granted, I hadn't bought it for a while, but I could have sworn the last time I bought it, it cost $3-4 for the same-sized package.
Has it been this expensive for a long time? Maybe I just didn't notice ...
Gotta say I had some for dinner last night (it was a breakfast-for-dinner night!) and it was delicious.
Same thing happened to me. I had not bought bacon in awhile and decided BLT's sounded good. I about croaked when I saw the prices. I usually get a brand name Dailey's that makes very good thick bacon, and it was like $8 or $9. I then began looking at the cheaper ones and got one. When I got to cooking it and opened the pkg. what I saw was ridiculous. There were not many pieces, they were thin enough to read through, it was pathetic.
hatfield has a thick-sliced slab bacon that comes 15 lbs to a case-thats popular up here - butcher shops will display this,,,or some places will smoke their own, and slice
the ends and pieces can be pre-pack in 1-3lb packages or whats popular in this region is bulk- stores can buy a hatfield-two-10lb boxes of ends and pieces, then they tray it up in a foam tray
if you dont see it - you can ask for it..
We don't have that brand around here but I am going to ask at my butcher shop next time I go get meat. When I asked before the bacon came in large boxes pre-sliced from the supplier. I don't see them at Wal Mart or local grocery stores packaged around either so I will ask when there also.
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Originally Posted by mjd07
My spouse worked at a company where they would have "pot luck" breakfast each morning. Each person would bring in something. There was one guy that got there earliest every day and he would take ALL the bacon (about 5-10 lbs depending on who was on the schedule), literally. They were so disgusted with it that they discontinued this several years old tradition in the department. The funniest part is the guy doing it wasn't the one actually buying/bringing in the bacon!
Why didn't somebody just tell the guy to stop taking all the bacon or they'd have to stop the breakfast? Surely he wasn't eating 5-10 #s of bacon in one sitting so was he taking it home?
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Now, it takes two incomes to bring it home!
When I asked before the bacon came in large boxes pre-sliced from the supplier. I don't see them at Wal Mart or local grocery stores packaged around either so I will ask when there also.
Surely he wasn't eating 5-10 #s of bacon in one sitting so was he taking it home?
