Do you eat bacon?

[big-all]

a bacon and egg rolls every day for breakfast a single 25-30grm rasher cooked in a foreman grill no added fats oils or spreads just half sugar hot red sauce for lubrication

 

[fillyboy]

I prefer pork belly slices

Up until about six years ago, something I would never consider eating. But then one night it was on a counter in a restaurant, caught a whiff and ordered it, now it's often something I'll have rather than a steak.

I've had good and bad, it's not so much the pork but what goes with it. A bed of mash, black pudding, white cabbage or similar and a light gravy works for me, sometimes it can be too rich a gravy and it becomes a heavy meal. It's something that varies incredibly between restaurants, in fact, you can have it in the same restaurant 6 months later and it's totally different.

How times have changed since the 70's/80's. Prawn cocktail to start, mixed grill, steak or duck a l'orange for main and black forest gateaux for afters.

Kinell.

 

[Munroast]

Each to their own I suppose.

I just like a good quality bacon butty.

what about little Mr Pigley - Have you considered his feelings ?

 

[fillyboy]

a bacon and egg rolls every day for breakfast a single 25-30grm rasher cooked in a foreman grill no added fats oils or spreads just half sugar hot red sauce for lubrication

The George Foreman lean mean grilling machine was one of the earliest celebrity endorsements where the endorser got a percentage. He earnt more from that than his entire boxing career. Naturally nobody got a deal like that after that deal.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Have 2 or 3 large breakfasts at 'Spoons each month - obviously with bacon. Do occasionally buy some better quality unsmoked from the butchers, the non halal variety - once a month. Do bacon butties, sometimes with fried egg - always with HP sauce. Don't know the truth about the health risks with it - but I'm still going.

 

[fillyboy]

Blue band margarine - that takes me back...

On the kibbutz, poor quality bread and blue band margarine was the standard breakfast fare, along with salad, really? who eats salad for breakfast?

The two highlights of the breakfast week were:

1. Fresh bread and proper unsalted butter.

2. Eggbread, bread dipped in eggs and fried.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

On the kibbutz, poor quality bread and blue band margarine was the standard breakfast fare, along with salad, really? who eats salad for breakfast?

Bet you won't go all inclusive next time.

 

[fillyboy]

Have 2 or 3 large breakfasts at 'Spoons each month - obviously with bacon. Do occasionally buy some better quality unsmoked from the butchers, the non halal variety - once a month. Do bacon butties, sometimes with fried egg - always with HP sauce. Don't know the truth about the health risks with it - but I'm still going.

We were in Herts back in the summer and whilst in Berkhamstead I treated the mrs to a breakfast in Weatherspoons, she had an eggs benedict,, I had a small english, 1 tea, 1 coffee. The mrs came back from ordering it and said 'I think they've undercharged us'.

 

[big-all]

The George Foreman lean mean grilling machine was one of the earliest celebrity endorsements where the endorser got a percentage. He earnt more from that than his entire boxing career. Naturally nobody got a deal like that after that deal.

to be fair it is a foreman grill i have but it more a lazy stereotype comment like hoover as a generic understood term as i will use any grills off suitable size at reasonable cost for the job
because bacon and chicken in general can have about 10% added water most loss will not reach the tray as it evaporates on the grill
in general my drain tray will have very little content showing that modern foods are low fat including the chips i eat at about 4% fat that wont shed onto any surface or into any tray on a formen type grill

 

[ellal]

Where it gets silly, is when you've placed yourself in a situation where you can't have bacon, or it's difficult to find. Like when I lived in Israel.
After 4 or 5 months on a kibbutz I virtually became a vegetarian, I'd occasionally have some chicken if it looked burnt enough but any other meat was playing russian roulette on wether you'd cop for a bout of dysentery. Obviously Pork or Bacon were off the menu anyway.
SO, one night, couldn't sleep, probably the heat or worrying about Syrian rockets, so I went out for a wander. No lights other than the moon but I walked for about ten minutes and suddenly got a whiff of bacon, fried bacon, rashers. I kept walking, sniffing like a dog as the smell got stronger and stronger. Eventually, I saw a light on in what was the guard room, most of the kibbutzniks were army reserves, were well armed and patrolled at night, I knocked on the door, went in and the buggers had a few loaves of bread, some blue band marge and a frying pan full of low quality streaky bacon. I had at least 4 sarnies, they asked me to keep it quiet, probably one of the best meals of my life.

I think you'll find a lot of Israelis indulge in bacon...

They were quite open about it on the Kibbutz and Moshav I stayed on...

And at a Bangladeshi restaurant I worked in whilst studying, the boss would partake of the odd rasher along with a few beers...

Although that was hidden away when his mum came into town!

 

[noseall]

How times have changed since the 70's/80's. Prawn cocktail to start, mixed grill, steak or duck a l'orange for main and black forest gateaux for afters.

Kinell.

You mean the good old days at the posh restaurant, with the table lit by a single candle, poking out from a wax dripping, reeded Chianti bottle, as the waiter proudly presents your chicken-in-a-basket. Knickerbocker glory or banana split for pudding?

 

[Brigadier]

The George Foreman lean mean grilling machine was one of the earliest celebrity endorsements where the endorser got a percentage. He earnt more from that than his entire boxing career. Naturally nobody got a deal like that after that deal.

That gig was offered to hulk hogan, who turned it down.

Hulk Hogan also supports the Fat Orange Tw@t.

Figures

 

[Mottie]

How times have changed since the 70's/80's. Prawn cocktail to start, mixed grill, steak or duck a l'orange for main and black forest gateaux for afters.

Yeah, and we wouldn’t even sit down to eat that until after 10.30 after being in the pub and still be able to compete in the rumpy pumpy Olympics on a full belly. Happy days!

 

[motorbiking]

I was under the impression that smoked meets were classed as toxic now?

Unsmoked bacon, usually in a carbonara once a week.

 

[Notch7]

I hardly ever have bacon despite loving it. It’s not exactly good for high blood pressure.

I do however sometimes use lardons in recipes, adds a fantastic flavour to things.

Sadly bacon is probably one of those bad carcinogenic foods