Bacon Bitch

[Catseye3]

Here's my bitch about bacon. I love bacon (being, y'know, normal), but I hate shopping for it.

Here's a list of my choices on this lovely morning when I could be doing so many other fun things. But nooo, here I sit, trapped amongst the strangling vines of a young ton of bacon choices. To wit:

Center Cut Original
Maple
Hearty Thick Cut
Naturally Hardwood Smoked
Thick Sliced
Hickory Smoked
Hometown Original
Premium 40% Lower Sodium
Thick Sliced Applewood Smoked
Hardwood Smoked, Uncured
Hickory Smoked, Uncured
Cherrywood Smoked
Hardwood Smoked, Extra Thick Cut, Original

Come on, people. Don't need the bells and whistles. I just WANT SOME DAMN ORDINARY BACON. I want a package of bacon that says, figuratively if not literally, "Bacon, Take It Or Leave It".

Grump.

[Jolly]

Well, it is all different.

For supermarket stuff, Wright thick cut is pretty good. For internet, Omaha Steaks has some great stuff.

Nothing beats good homemade...

[Aqua Letifer]

Take comfort in the fact that the words mean almost nothing.

[Horace]

@catseye3 said in Bacon Bitch:

Here's my bitch about bacon. I love bacon (being, y'know, normal), but I hate shopping for it.
Here's a list of my choices on this lovely morning when I could be doing so many other fun things. But nooo, here I sit, trapped amongst the strangling vines of a young ton of bacon choices.

You posted that from a grocery store, while sitting next to the bacon case?

[Catseye3]

@horace No, sitting at my computer in front of an Instacart page.

[Horace]

@catseye3 said in Bacon Bitch:

@horace No, sitting at my computer in front of an Instacart page.

And Derek Hunter needs to get out more.

[Larry]

One of MY pet peeves...

If you can't load your ass up in the car and go to the grocery store, then fuckin' starve!....

[Jolly]

@aqua-letifer said in Bacon Bitch:

Take comfort in the fact that the words mean almost nothing.

They kinda do, in some cases.

Low sodium bacon is a thing, as is different kinds of smoking.

[George K]

Speaking of bacon, I learned a new word this week:

Lardon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lardon

"A lardon, also spelled lardoon, is a small strip or cube of fatty bacon, or pork fat (usually subcutaneous fat), used in a wide variety of cuisines to flavor savory foods and salads. In French cuisine, lardons are also used for larding, by threading them with a needle into meats that are to be braised or roasted. Lardons are not normally smoked, and they are made from pork that has been cured with salt.

In French cuisine, lardons are served hot in salads and salad dressings, as well as on some tartes flambées, stews such as beef bourguignon, quiches such as quiche Lorraine, in omelettes, with potatoes, and for other dishes such as coq au vin."

Today I'm making Julia Child's Beef Bourguignon, and it calls for lardons to be simmered in water for about 10 minutes before putting them in the pot to cook all the way through.

The simmering gives it a bit less of a bite of that "bacon-ey" taste, it's more subtle, and still very, very good.

[Catseye3]

Second definition of lardon: If you eat too much bacon, you'll put the lardon.

[Mik]

@larry said in Bacon Bitch:

One of MY pet peeves...

If you can't load your ass up in the car and go to the grocery store, then fuckin' starve!....

Why? I use Kroger and Meijer clicklist all the time. It costs nothing and puts people to work. I just drive up and the put the groceries in my car. I'd wager George hasn't been in a grocery store for some time - he always gets it delivered.

[Aqua Letifer]

@mik said in Bacon Bitch:

@larry said in Bacon Bitch:

One of MY pet peeves...

If you can't load your ass up in the car and go to the grocery store, then fuckin' starve!....

Why? I use Kroger and Meijer clicklist all the time. It costs nothing and puts people to work. I just drive up and the put the groceries in my car. I'd wager George hasn't been in a grocery store for some time - he always gets it delivered.

We do the curbside pickup thing all the time now, too. Just saves a ton of time.

Our farmer's market doesn't have the option, of course, so we do walk through that one.

[Jolly]

I shop too hard to do pickup.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in Bacon Bitch:

I shop too hard to do pickup.

If currency is a construct and you can't burn or eat ones and zeroes, hey, why bother?

We're big on picking up basic veggies and starches (aka the cheaper stuff) so the savings isn't really there anyway. If we bought more fruit and meat that way, eh, maybe we'd do it differently. But that's what we hit up the market for.

[Mik]

I get most all our meat and a lot of vegetables from local farms, so what I get from groceries is pretty pedestrian stuff. Milk, eggs, cereals, butter, flour, sugar, etc.

[Klaus]

@Catseye3 I wish I had any of those as a choice to buy. The bacon you can buy over here is terrible. Maybe it's the cut - American bacon is much thicker than what they sell here. I've even smuggled a few packages of bacon back home from trips to the US in the past.

[George K]

@mik said in Bacon Bitch:

I'd wager George hasn't been in a grocery store for some time - he always gets it delivered.

And you'd lose. I was there yesterday (needed some meat for the supper I made last night).

I go to our local down-the-street grocer about once a week. It's a great place for those things you thought you had for a recipe and don't. I just walk about 100 yards, and it's done.

For "big shops" I'll use Amazon or Instacart. Jewel will also deliver.

But the convenience of having a grocery store down the block is great.