I had a hankering for a bacon and egger the other morning, so I set off to the nearest grocery store. I picked up a package of bacon that looked pretty lean, that is, until I got it home and into the frying pan. The whole package was about 90% fat!
The only scraps of meat in the entire pack were on the edge that was against the plastic. Once you look inside, it’s nothing but fat with a tiny scrap of meat along the very edge that’s visible on the front of the package. How misleading to your customers! And disappointing. Now my mouth is filling with grease as I take one rubbery, gristly bite after another of this egger sandwich, my guts are turning. There is something seriously wrong with the world, we are literally living in bacon country, but can’t get a decent slice of the stuff! Well, I called the company so the jokes on them…now they are refunding my money. I’ll just use this pack of pork fat to flavor my beet greens.
–Still no bacon
This article appears in May 2-8, 2019.
It’s like extra lean ground beef when you fry it up. A ten pound patty shrinks up to a ten gram turd. It’s not extra lean ground beef by any standards.
Try going to a butcher or meat shop instead of the grocer store. You will pay more but it will be much better quality. #JustSayin
Buy back bacon if you want it lean, everything else is mostly fat.