Blue Cat

Just had one I wonder if people to convert to Islam miss their bacon sandwiches

Lorna at Vicenza

You don't even need to convert ......... just move to Italy.

I'd love a bacon sarnie right now!

But I do have a friend coming out from Ireland in May and she's been told to bring me loads and loads of bacon .... and a couple of ham joints !

Blue Cat

you can't get bacon in Italy? how bizarre it is all just cured meats?

Lorna at Vicenza

Well you can get "pancetta" but that is mostly sold already diced and cubed for pasta sauces. If you get it sliced, the slices are very narrow and transparently thin. Hard to make a bacon sarnie from.

There isn't anything like our bacon. I did once ask a butcher why. The pigs apparently are chopped up in different ways to make the huge hams, salami etc.

Roll on May. Friend is also bringing t-bags and salad cream.

Blue Cat

I can't believe we are better off in Dubai than you are in Italy! we are real spoilt

Grace O Malley

ooh lucky you, get her to bring you Irish sausages, yum

Grace O Malley

lol, a lot of non Muslims don't eat pork though.

I love a bacon or sausage sarnie, but I hate pork chops or roast pork.

Blue Cat

I love roast pork but don't like chops, and I adore bacon

Lorna at Vicenza

I will do ....... hope her suitcase doesn't get checked.

Blue Cat

years ago you couldn't get pork here, I used to freeze bacon in the UK, take it out the freezer the morning of my flight, wrap it in newspaper, put it in the suitcase and it would still be frozen when it got here

rowell

Choitroms equiv to 7 pound a packet, it should taste good........1.35 on pack

Lorna at Vicenza

My firend gets it vaccuum packed the morning of her flight. That way I can open a packet while she's here and I can freeze the rest for when I get a craving months later.

The big problem is knowing it's in the freezer. It's hard to leave it there and make it last !

Blue Cat

Farmers Choice in the freezer, 9.50 dhs a pack

rowell

In Choitrams?

Blue Cat

I would end up eating the lot in a week