I'm fed up with the quality of bacon lately. The usual bacon we get was nothing but fat the last package we got. I peeled half of the contents out and threw it away trying to find any slices with some meat on it. My wife used some in baked beans the other night, and the rest will get tossed. We bought another brand, and the same d&#$ thing. Very little meat and mostly fat. I'm not about to spend the extra $$ for something like Boar's Head and fewer slices.

try to buy fresh pork belly (usually about a buck fifty a lb in meat markets)and smoke it with cherrywood for about 6-7 hours--slice it thin and you will have quality bacon without the preservatives

you ever hear the internet story (joke) about the guy who was breaking up with his girlfriend and what he did with a pound of bacon? Wish I could find it...no way I could type it out from memory and do it justice.

You are absolutely Keerect! I was at Shoprite the other night and I could tell the stock boy was geting pissy cause I was tearing up the display looking for a decent pack of bacon. He had the nerve to say they're all the same. Au contraire my greasy headed stock puke. Go learn sumthin sumthin bout bacon. All fat with slivers of meat. Packaged bacon sucks anymore.

Yes.

Maple-chocolate-bacon cookies, bacon ice cream, chicken fried bacon, chocolate covered bacon, dark chocolate bars w/ bacon bits, bacon vodka, bacon burbon, heck, Michael from MST3K even went so far as to eat only bacon for a month.

http://www.slashfood.com/2009/02/16/piggy-extremes-man-vows-to-eat-only-bacon-for-1-month/ 

I can get VERY good bacon at a discount.

In any case, NEVER throw out fatty bacon.........fry it and save the grease.

JHC, I'll try and google it first. If I can't find it, I'll try and give the cliff notes version....or maybe not. 😉

Two Mexicans, Pepe & Luis, are lost in the desert, wandering aimlessly and close to death.

Losing all hope, they are about to just lay down and die, when all of a sudden.......

"Hey Pepe, do you smell what I smell? Ees bacon I is sure of eet."

"Si, Luis eet smells like bacon to meee too."

So, with renewed strength, they struggle up the next sand dune, and there, in the distance, is a tree loaded with bacon.

There's raw bacon, dripping with moisture, there's fried bacon, there's back bacon, there's pea meal bacon & Canadian bacon, double smoked bacon... every imaginable kind of cured pig meat.

"Pepe, Pepe, we is saved. 'Eees a bacon tree."

"Luis, are you sure ees not a meerage? We ees in the desert don't forget."

"Pepe when deed you ever hear of a meerage that smell like bacon... ees no

meerage, ees a bacon tree I is sure of eet".

And with that... Luis begins to run towards the tree.

Pepe begin slowly walking behind certain it is just a mirage.

Luis gets with about 15 feet of the tree, when all of a sudden, machine gun fire rings out, and Luis is cut down in his tracks.

It is clear he is mortally wounded but, true friend that he is, he manages to crawl back to warn Pepe with his dying breath.

"Pepe... go back man,you was right ees not a bacon tree."

"Luis, Luis mi amigo...what ees it then?"

"Pepe... ees not a bacon tree...

Ees

Ees

Ees

Ees

Ees

Eees a Ham bush."

(yes, it is safe for work)

http://www.scalzi.com/cattapebacon2.jpg