@brbn_nattie: Oopsie! I meant "don't eat it." I LOVE eating, honest.

@Rectilinear Propagation: @Hexum2600: Amen to that! Don't eat and don't care what I'm missing. Mmmmmm, turkey bacon and chicken sausage.

@mewyn dyner:

Glad I'm not the only one thinking that SAME THING. So much better for you than shortening. At least it has natural vitamins in it. Good lard is hard to find!

Or you could render it and use it for soap.

THIS AIN'T KOSHER!

@oldhat: In other news, self-righteous vegetarians think they are better than everyone because of waht they don't eat.

It was essentially cooked bacon layered in butcher type paper that was rolled up and stuffed in a can. I have never seen anything like it before or since. From what I remember it was a product of Hungary. Although I can't remember the brand name it was something completely generic.

Our teeth evolved to eat -cooked- meat. Our jaw power and teeth size is embarrassingly inadequate compared to primates (which relish the taste of flesh when they can get it, by the way)

To say the 'vegan' choice is the right choice is quite biased. We are all going do die anyways, and if we want to eat the flesh of all the poor little animals then.. that's our choice.

Also, saying that killing animals is wrong is infuriating beyond belief. You know, a shot to the head kills an animal far quicker than being -suffocated- by the jaws of a lion clamped over your snout, then being eaten alive as you slowly suffocate. Death isn't supposed to be pretty. Sure, I too believe that there should be better care for slaughter animals but at the same time, no one better try to take my steak away from me lest they wish to feel my wrath.

No, the real thing that is killing us is that natural selection can't kill us off, therefore we keep passing forth bad genes =) haha, sure we can prevent a person from dying from allergies but at the same time we let them pass on their genes. Is that wrong? Well, it's the path we choose.. kind of like eating meat. Funny, that. Herbivore, omnivore.. whatever. Like primates, we are opportunistic. =)

Yeah.. I worry about the meat I eat and the state of the animals.. I do. I fully intend to own a farm where I raise and kill my animals personally. That way, I know they're healthy before they are my bacon =D

News Flash: EVERYTHING kills you. There is something in almost everything that causes this or that, and makes something bad happen to you. Pick your poison. Mine won't be tofu.

I found Bacon flavored rolling papers at the tobacco store. I have no idea about that.

To all the unthinking reactionaries:

Humans evolved eating all sorts of animals and their parts. Suddenly, and in a few countries, we only eat like 4 animals, and then only a few parts?

I'm not mad at you for not eating brains, or dogs, or tongues...no not at all! I won't eat that shit either!

I'm just pointing out the painfully obvious: the American diet does not make sense (if your goal is long life and good health) and it's crazy to be gobbling hamburgers all day and get freaked out by a little more animal than you imagined. Don't you know where your main food comes from?

I'm not a hippie.

And I have never looked at a freaky stawberry and said, "ew, that stem is disgusting!" What idiot said that?

And yes, if you are a vegetarian and you don't like bok choy, you are not only illogical, but stupid. Cook it better, or less, or something. Or you ain't no vegetarian.

My logic is irrefutable. Doesn't make it "right", but logic doesn't always tell the whole story does it?

You folks aren't very smart. No offense to the rest...you obviously know who you are, by definition.

Ah, unread moral victory 836 secured!

@DeeHaney: Two commenters getting slammed by the rest for remarks that were illogical at best isn't interesting. It happens at least once a day. Please note that even not_seth_brundle, a vegetarian, agreed that oldhat's logic was flawed.

I also fail to see how fat a person is/isn't has to do with how bad things are for vegetarians.

www.cheflifeonline.com

Just for you two I'll be having a bacon on rye tomorrow. With ham. For breakfast.

For lunch I'm thinking carnitas.

If there is a more disgusting food out there, anywhere... I have yet to find it.

Peace

Once you've made a tidy profit at the crafts fair, you can order a whole carton of that fancy organic farmer bacon off the internets.

.....That pack pictured above is good only for cooking down and saving the grease. I'll bet it would make great cornbread...

.....I don't buy bacon but about twice a year when I'm on vacation. And then, I stick to stuff like Hormel Black Label, thick sliced.

:)

@Terminixsux: oldhat make a whole lot of Consumerist comments for a troll...

The bacon window is useless, as all you can see is the top or bottom piece and all the edges. Granted, you can assume some level of consistency, as the bacon is usually sliced from a single pork belly or back. Anyone remember getting that really good bacon at the butcher? It was a big slab they'd slice down for you like cold-cuts. Yummy!!! And the uses for rendered bacon fat are endless, and many of them are delicious, as long as you don't think about it too much. I mean, how else are you gonna make decent biscuits and gravy? Finally, the hippie was obviously trolling, so we all know the rules, "DON'T Feed the trolls bacon!!"

Posted:

"Saturday, December 30, 2006

Best Bacon Ever!
Now I have purchased some cheap bacon in my life, but I think this one tops them all. I must say that it is mostly my fault because I wasn't paying too much attention, but this should be illegal! "

Now here's my question... how can fat stay "fresh" that long? Ew?

I'll be as picky as I like in the meat that I eat.

Remember, dear hippie, that meat eating is partially responsible for us humans having these nice big brains. Don't fight evolution.

But you haven't lived until you've had some fatback, fried up into hard crunchy pieces. Right along with pork skins.

yum.

Ah well...just render it down and save the fat for later - $1.79 well spent.

Oh and @oldhat:

Eat me, hippie. Would you like the to eat the little leaves on top of strawberries, or the strawberry itself? Maybe the pit of a peach instead of the flesh?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

"it's baconnnnnnnnnnn!"

Now, before you all freak out and say "OMG DISGUSTING!", I'd use bits of the fat here and render them in certain dishes for oil/fat. Bacon fat is one of the tastiest cooking fats, and before WWII it used to be the most popular one. Of course, though, I wouldn't be eating this as I would mostly lean bacon, but still, it's not unusable, just for a different purpose. :)

In other news, meat-eaters show flawed logic by being irrationally picky about the animal parts they eat.

Then again I haven't purchaced bacon in years.

Oh yeah... and ick. That just looks gross...

http://www.errolmorris.com/commercials/miller/miller_bacon...