Noooo, not bacon!
Sep 27th 2012 | 4:11 am
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Re: Noooo, not bacon!
Not everything has sugar on it. And maple syrup has a distinctive flavour. Saying that you can replace maple syrup with sugar is equivalent to saying that UK cheese can be replaced with brick cheese... Obviously not the case according to all the posts here 
Personally (and that's just my personal taste not the opinion of every canadian) I find there is too much reliance on red meat and fatty meat stuff in meals in the UK. I always have indigestion when travelling to the UK. Pork pies, sausages and bacon and deep fried eggs and fried bread and fried mushrooms at breakfast...sausages and meat pies and pasties accompanied by chips for other meals. Or maybe hubby misses that stuff too much and we end up having a smorgasbord of UK foods when we go over...
Personally (and that's just my personal taste not the opinion of every canadian) I find there is too much reliance on red meat and fatty meat stuff in meals in the UK. I always have indigestion when travelling to the UK. Pork pies, sausages and bacon and deep fried eggs and fried bread and fried mushrooms at breakfast...sausages and meat pies and pasties accompanied by chips for other meals. Or maybe hubby misses that stuff too much and we end up having a smorgasbord of UK foods when we go over...
Sep 27th 2012 | 4:30 am
#47
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Re: Noooo, not bacon!
Mmm, it's true that our last visit was to Scotland where his family now live... But we've had this type of food when in Bristol and London too... Mind you, he pretty much likes traditional food, so that might explain things... I have liked most of the foods I ate there, but haven't found anything amazing just yet. Other than indian food, that's a lot better than what we have around here !
Sep 27th 2012 | 4:45 am
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Sep 27th 2012 | 5:06 am
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Sep 27th 2012 | 5:15 am
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Re: Noooo, not bacon!
This whole bacon story is based on a hyperbolic press release from pork producers in the UK. It's totally overblown. Prices will go up but there is no critical shortage. Enough of a shortage to cause a price rise but nothing to get overly excited about.
Sep 27th 2012 | 6:31 am
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Re: Noooo, not bacon!
Nay-bob, the story is based on the drought in the American mid-west where they grow corn to feed pigs with. Either the price goes up or producers stop raising pigs, and it's already climbing.
Sep 29th 2012 | 6:36 am
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Re: Noooo, not bacon!
It's just streaky isn't it? Granted a third, or even half, is just fat. (although Maple Leaf seems less fatty)
My local butcher/grocer/general store sells sliced cooked back bacon - just the meat part. The price used to put me off, but given the total absence of fat and no shrinkage it works out about the same cost as the usual stuff.
A couple of pieces in the microwave for 40 seconds and you have tasty lean "grilled" back bacon ready for a sarnie.
It's delicious eaten cold too.
My local butcher/grocer/general store sells sliced cooked back bacon - just the meat part. The price used to put me off, but given the total absence of fat and no shrinkage it works out about the same cost as the usual stuff.
A couple of pieces in the microwave for 40 seconds and you have tasty lean "grilled" back bacon ready for a sarnie.
It's delicious eaten cold too.
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Sep 29th 2012 | 2:49 pm
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Sep 30th 2012 | 4:17 am
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Re: Noooo, not bacon!
Like many press releases, it is hyped to the point of falsehood.
If this is true, though, I am going to start keeping a pig!
I have seen Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall do it and if he can, then it can't be that hard!
I had always thought that pigs were much better than cows for converting their food into meat - quicker and more efficient and don't need such a posh diet.
Their ability to create methane (as showcased in Mad Max 3) is a significant eco-friendly bonus which cannot be ignored.
If all that is true, then we should all be forgoing beef in favour of our piggy friends as they will save the planet.
The beef here is rubbish anyway. The pork is much nicer.
Sep 30th 2012 | 8:26 am
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Sep 30th 2012 | 8:50 am
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Re: Noooo, not bacon!
Good.
Like many press releases, it is hyped to the point of falsehood.
If this is true, though, I am going to start keeping a pig!
I have seen Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall do it and if he can, then it can't be that hard!
I had always thought that pigs were much better than cows for converting their food into meat - quicker and more efficient and don't need such a posh diet.
Their ability to create methane (as showcased in Mad Max 3) is a significant eco-friendly bonus which cannot be ignored.
If all that is true, then we should all be forgoing beef in favour of our piggy friends as they will save the planet.
The beef here is rubbish anyway. The pork is much nicer.
Like many press releases, it is hyped to the point of falsehood.
If this is true, though, I am going to start keeping a pig!
I have seen Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall do it and if he can, then it can't be that hard!
I had always thought that pigs were much better than cows for converting their food into meat - quicker and more efficient and don't need such a posh diet.
Their ability to create methane (as showcased in Mad Max 3) is a significant eco-friendly bonus which cannot be ignored.
If all that is true, then we should all be forgoing beef in favour of our piggy friends as they will save the planet.
The beef here is rubbish anyway. The pork is much nicer.
Sep 30th 2012 | 9:06 am
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Re: Noooo, not bacon!
Diversion of corn crops from animal feed to ethanol production (I always thought this was mostly in the US, but I could be wrong), helped drive pork and beef prices up even before the drought. At least we knew that was coming - drought on the other hand can be harder to predict. Compared to the parts of the world where untold numbers of people may starve as a consequence, paying a dollar or two more for our bacon or tenderloin or chop is nothing, really.
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Sep 30th 2012 | 9:22 am
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Re: Noooo, not bacon!
Diversion of corn crops from animal feed to ethanol production (I always thought this was mostly in the US, but I could be wrong), helped drive pork and beef prices up even before the drought. At least we knew that was coming - drought on the other hand can be harder to predict. Compared to the parts of the world where untold numbers of people may starve as a consequence, paying a dollar or two more for our bacon or tenderloin or chop is nothing, really.
