My business partner has this.
Coincidentally, his motto in life is that "bacon is nature's candy."
Another Food Poll! BACON!
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My business partner has this.
Coincidentally, his motto in life is that "bacon is nature's candy."
You make an excellent point.OMG, I love bacon! It has to be crispy almost to the point of being burnt though.
Sometimes for breakfast on the weekends, I'll make breakfast like my mom always did (she still does quite often) cook the bacon, fry eggs in the bacon grease and then put both of those on toast with mayo and a slice of the soft Velveeta cheese. Yummo!!
.....we're from the South so bacon is like a food group.
I have to exercise like a mofo because I will not give up my good ol' southern food!!
I thought down south Bacon WAS its own group and FRIED was the elusive fifth state of matter. (Solid, liquid, gas, plasma, southern-fried)
At one point, my sister went vegetarian. And let me be clear on this, she was die-hard in her anti-meat zeal. Nearly vegan. She cut out not only all meat, but dairy and most all other animal products.
Well... almost.
No matter how she tried, she could not give up bacon. Various bacon substitutes were tried, but all were found wanting. Nothing would fulfill her cravings but real slabs of dead pig. At least she wasn't too hypocritical about it. She never hid the fact she still ate bacon... not even from her other vegetarian/vegan friends.
What finally made her give up all pretense of Vegetarianism, after nearly 8 years, was an television ad for some restaurant that was introducing a bacon-cheeseburger. The ad ended, and her vegetarian boyfriend completely out of the blue says: "Damn that sounds good. Ya wanna go and get a couple?" They each came back half an our later, with two burgers each. I later found out that they'd ordered three apiece, and each of them had snarfed one on the ride home.
The power of bacon.
YUM
Well... almost.
No matter how she tried, she could not give up bacon. Various bacon substitutes were tried, but all were found wanting. Nothing would fulfill her cravings but real slabs of dead pig. At least she wasn't too hypocritical about it. She never hid the fact she still ate bacon... not even from her other vegetarian/vegan friends.
What finally made her give up all pretense of Vegetarianism, after nearly 8 years, was an television ad for some restaurant that was introducing a bacon-cheeseburger. The ad ended, and her vegetarian boyfriend completely out of the blue says: "Damn that sounds good. Ya wanna go and get a couple?" They each came back half an our later, with two burgers each. I later found out that they'd ordered three apiece, and each of them had snarfed one on the ride home.
The power of bacon.
YUM
OMG, I love bacon! It has to be crispy almost to the point of being burnt though.
Sometimes for breakfast on the weekends, I'll make breakfast like my mom always did (she still does quite often) cook the bacon, fry eggs in the bacon grease and then put both of those on toast with mayo and a slice of the soft Velveeta cheese. Yummo!!
.....we're from the South so bacon is like a food group.
I have to exercise like a mofo because I will not give up my good ol' southern food!!
Bacon is really bad, and turkey bacon is worse for you!
RAMA
Thankfully I don't eat turkey bacon but why is it worse?OMG, I love bacon! It has to be crispy almost to the point of being burnt though.
Sometimes for breakfast on the weekends, I'll make breakfast like my mom always did (she still does quite often) cook the bacon, fry eggs in the bacon grease and then put both of those on toast with mayo and a slice of the soft Velveeta cheese. Yummo!!
.....we're from the South so bacon is like a food group.
I have to exercise like a mofo because I will not give up my good ol' southern food!!
Bacon is really bad, and turkey bacon is worse for you!
RAMA
Plecostomus
Commodore
Thankfully I don't eat turkey bacon but why is it worse?OMG, I love bacon! It has to be crispy almost to the point of being burnt though.
Sometimes for breakfast on the weekends, I'll make breakfast like my mom always did (she still does quite often) cook the bacon, fry eggs in the bacon grease and then put both of those on toast with mayo and a slice of the soft Velveeta cheese. Yummo!!
.....we're from the South so bacon is like a food group.
I have to exercise like a mofo because I will not give up my good ol' southern food!!
Bacon is really bad, and turkey bacon is worse for you!
RAMA
Some brands have far far more salt/sodium than pork bacon.
That is kind of what I figured. Kind of like how I compare cold cuts and it seems like a lot of times the turkey or roast beef seem to have much more sodium than the ham.
Plecostomus
Commodore
Indeed. I don't care about fat or calorie content so much as I have a very physical life... I bike everwhere as opposed to drive when I can get away with it.
Salt though... too much of that affects the heart-rate and blood-pressure or so I am lead to believe.
You're one of those people who just eat fish or lean chicken breasts, aren't you? Or a communist!
Plecostomus
Commodore
You're one of those people who just eat fish or lean chicken breasts, aren't you? Or a communist!
Prob'ly doesn't like butter either.
It was BOGOF in my grocery store too. I thought I'd make breakfast tonight and I froze the other package.
It was BOGOF in my grocery store too. I thought I'd make breakfast tonight and I froze the other package.
Freaky. My plans exactly.
It was BOGOF in my grocery store too. I thought I'd make breakfast tonight and I froze the other package.
Breakfast for dinner. Whoever thought of it should've patented the idea.
By the way, bake your bacon. Put the bacon on a cookie sheet and start in a cold oven set to 400 degrees F. and keep an eye on it. It's still smelly, but not as bad as doing a pound in a frying pan. (And, you still get the drippings. Yay! Wilted spinach salad the next day.)
Plecostomus
Commodore
Tell me more. This sounds interesting.
First, my apologies to Mallory about the smell. Problem is, after the second day, the romance of the smell begins to wane.
For the salad, you can do it with freshly fried bacon (freshly fried?) and just add the chopped bits at the end. But I always keep leftover fat from bacon in a container in the fridge, then when I want it, like for this salad, I just melt it in a medium-high frying pan with some sweet (or red) onion. Let the onion get soft. Add some red wine vinegar (it's a to taste thing, but 2:1 fat to vinegar is a start) a little Dijon mustard, a very large pinch of sugar, salt and pepper. Let it get mixed well.
While all is still hot, pour it over a bowl of fresh spinach and toss until the spinach is wilting. Or add the spinach to the skillet and stir until it begins to wilt.
A person could add some minced garlic with the onion, too.
Plecostomus
Commodore
This.
My lunch tomorrow.
My lunch tomorrow.
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