Chr*st on a bike! I am NOT a big meat eater but the OH and I enjoy a nice bacon buttie when we're feeling a bit 'porky' aka when we're eating naughtily. WTF is going on with the bacon in this country!? The first lot we bought we looked at it upon opening and wondered 'is this stuff cooked?!' a mate of mine's hubby who arrived at a similar time to us actually licked the bacon to see if it was cooked, much to his disgust, it wasn't! Now I'm no expert on meat but I do know my bacon, so can someone enlighten me, are the pigs just weird over here, or have the butchers not got a clue lol

Why don't you let your hubby bring home the bacon?

Haha ejit lol

You really have to shop around Jen and get yourself a good butcher, the bacon you find in the supermarkets are not a good substitute - try getting yourself a gammon joint at xmas

I did look in a two butchers before I gave up and got the supermarket shoite lol Aw well lol

I know exactly what you mean, it seriously is disgusting...I don't know for sure why it is so different but i do have a theory.

I believe that UK butchers pump the bacon full of some kind of brine giving it that wet floppy feel to it. Where as in oz, they don't as it is more dry and has a harder texture to it.

So in effect you would think you are getting better quality bacon in oz, but my god, it doesn't taste right!

Ummm . . . I know all about that . . .

Anyways back to bacon, I think the really cheap stuff ($7 a kilo) in Coles (Coles own brand) is about the best I've had. Plenty of fat and makes a half decent sarnie.

Aldi's bacon is great.

Have to agree, actually, a lot of Aldi's meat is great

My local butcher does awesome bacon.

Seek and ye shall find.

They don't have an 'Aldi' in Toowoomba . . . I do think they have a 'Grace Brothers' though.

Not sure if they would import bacon though

Apparently they do!

"Ground floor: Perfumery, stationary, and leather goods, wigs and haberdashery, kitchenware and imported bacon. Going up... "

I still find that word funny

Yeah they do, I was in it today, even treated the OH to a tin of corned beef so he can make his hash (the bl**dy minger lol)