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:nod: Maybe we should hire a group of people to write a long, tedious novel about it.

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Any muslims in this thread? :p

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More bacon for me.

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:lol:

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What a waste, typical jocks :eek:


BBC News - Pair jailed for Edinburgh's Central Mosque bacon attack

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I read somewhere over the weekend (can't remember where - hopefully not this thread:o) about some cafe threatened with being closed down because the smell of bacon was offending the "other religioned" neighbours. I can't find the link now, but googling it came up with quite a few places closed down because the neighbours complained about the smell, including a bridal shop:confused: That one kind of beggars belief - I mean, imagine, groom standing at the altar, waiting for new bride to appear, wondering what the hell he is doing, and whether his choice of "mate for life" was pukka, when she appears smelling like a couple of pounds of Danish and banishes all doubts in an instant!

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Offending them, my arse. The lovely smell of bacon being cooked was causing them to question their decisions more like ...

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I tell you I've lived as much of a baconless life as I could possibly stand.

(Trust you had black tights to go with those white stilettos)

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"Pigs in Bridal Gowns" new item for the menu, hope nobody construes this as sexist :p

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Always with black tights:lol:

I have paid my dues with the crappy stuff they call bacon here. I am going to lose my mind when I lay my hands on the real deal:egyptian:

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There's hope here in east central PA. One butcher at the Allentown Fairgrounds has bangers, using an original recipe from an old British lady. Another has access to Irish back bacon. I'll report back later on both.:fingerscrossed:

Meanwhile, Pulaski's notice of a shop in NC that stocks the real deal also gives us hope.:thumbsup:

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A friend back home had the nerve to post this today.
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*drool*

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FIFY :unsure:

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Thank you Pulaski, because REAL friends don't do that to their friends.

I've been thinking of a real English breakfast all day long.

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Went to a bar (Brass Monkey) in NYC to watch the Autumn Rugby Internationals last week, they served proper pork sausages and english bacon...that bacon was like heaven.

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:( that would be a $400 breakfast, just to get there.

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Plus tip :ohmy:

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I had a friend visiting Scotland post a breakfast photo recently. What is lorne sausage? it didn't look good, it was square like a Wendys burger.

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A square sausage. I think, I've never eaten one.

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Aw, isn't it cute ?

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Ahh, the baby Jesus looks so cute, I could just eat him up!

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Just had sixteen pounds of sausage custom made for us, with authentic lincolnshire flavour....because LizzyQ came over with enough to make 48 pounds...

Read 'em and weep.

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YUM!

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It exists! It looks good, never got to eat it though.

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Five to a pack? :unsure: Ahh, two packs at a time! :nod:

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Bacon is being made in the fridge right now.

Hopefully

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Next project. What cut did you buy to bacon-ise ?
Found curing salt in our supermarket for a first try.

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Should be pork tenderloin, which is the source of the round meat disc in British "back" bacon.

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Tenderloin would give us Canadian style though, looking at the way they cut it. I was "resigned" to buying half a pig, and getting the cut right. Fortunately the butchers we have found are intrigued by the two weird English people they met yesterday, and are going to try and get what we want. We asked nicely, and they made the sausages on the spot !

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Every time I have tried Canadian bacon it has had the texture and consistency of shoe leather. :( It also doesn't look like the round disc in British bacon, at least not the "Canadian bacon" I've seen.

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We had an huge pork loin with fat on so we cut the best looking bit for bacon. It's. Bacon making kit for this first attempt. Everything was in the bag ready.

The Original Baconkit

If it works we can start trying our own.

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We're off three hours north to this place The Sausage Maker, Inc. - Sausage Making Equipment & Supplies for all that is sausag-ey ....and a mooch around.

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I'm not a big sausage fan (insert your own joke here). I could only eat a cheap Richmond sausage in the UK and here I just don't fancy them.

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:rofl:

You prefer a cheap sausage to a good size, chunkier, meaty sausage???:ohmy:

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I hear ya, not keen either really.

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FIFY :sick:

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Yes, it's then meaty bits that are chewy. Don't get that with pork fat and breadcrumbs. Mmmmm mmmm mmmmmm.

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I like my sausages to taste meaty, and it is the meaty bits that lead to them tasting meaty. Only poor quality sausages have chewy meat in them. :unsure: