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Do you eat bacon?
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After I gave up the booze and when visiting France I asked for a 'bière sans alcool'
To which the answer was 'pourquoi?'
Same thing with unsmoked bacon!
Yeah must admit I'm considering switching to unsmoked, however when you read articles about bacon the consensus seems to be ... well there isn't really a consensus!
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Would that be the trendy "crushed" mash? Funny how my primary school in the 70's was ahead of its time in serving this, although it was then known as lumpy mash.
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I think all processed meats are classed as toxic nowdays.
Always smoked for me, but only rarely do I have it, because I only rarely bother to have breakfast. I much more often have smoked gammon, egg, and chips for dinner.
My bacon, has to be just bordering on crisp - the fat going brown. I dislike the feel of soggy bacon fat in my mouth. I'm the same with any meat, the fat in always cut off, and left.
My bacon, has to be just bordering on crisp - the fat going brown. I dislike the feel of soggy bacon fat in my mouth. I'm the same with any meat, the fat in always cut off, and left.
I haven't had breakfast for months. The last time was when holidaying in Ireland with my extended family.
I tend to buy the dry cured bacon. The last lot that I ate was almost 3 months past the sell by date. I sniffed it and then fried it. Yum.
There, I had my second best tasting breakfast in my life. Just of the ferry, at Dún Laoghaire, up from the terminal, and then turn right along the main road. A little café on the right.
The best one, in Calais, a little, but very busy cafe I used to pop in when passing through. Served by a Scotsman, who pretended to be French, and claimed to have little English. They did something with their fried eggs, which made them taste out of this world..
So you treated 'er indoors to a 'spoons - and she paid!!!
Seriously though, it's never going to be haute cuisine, but a Wetherspoons is cracking value and the full English does what it says on the tin.
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I love bacon, I think a bacon sarnie is one of the few things that might even tempt a vegetarian. To much is not good for you but that applies to most things but I have been eating it all my life and I'm 85.
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My SIL broke her (many years) veggie fast, when she became pregnant with her first sprog. She could not resist the smell of the bacon cooking and just had to have a bacon sarnie. Never looked back.
Salt, nitrate, seasoning and sometimes sugar. Then it is left to air dry. Cheap bacon is soaked in a brine of salt, sugar, seasonings, sodium nitrate and other chemicals. I will eat the cheap wet cured bacon, but I will play close attention to the use by date.
Dry cure is more expensive, but IMO, a vastly superior product, and, I suspect, less harmful.
I appreciate that nitrates are not healthy but the press headlines do not seem to distinguish between wet and dry cured bacon.
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I think they cheat these days, don't they?
Instead of smoking meat over burning wood, they add "smoke flavour" to meat.
Bacon
Sausages
Ham
Salami
Hot dogs
Canned meat, such as corned beef
Deli meat, such as deli roast beef or turkey
Chorizo
Cabanossi
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Processed meats are meats that have been preserved or flavored in some way, such as by smoking, curing, salting, or adding preservatives. They are generally high in fat and salt, and contain nitrates and nitrites.
Eating too much processed meat is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, and various forms of cancer, including bowel and stomach cancer. The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen, meaning it is a "definite" cause of cancer.
Instead of smoking meat over burning wood, they add "smoke flavour" to meat.
TBF, neither is anything with a high salt content.
Lots of processed meat is seen as bad, not just bacon. I know you're gonna hate me for this. My AI gave me this information:
Bacon
Sausages
Ham
Salami
Hot dogs
Canned meat, such as corned beef
Deli meat, such as deli roast beef or turkey
Chorizo
Cabanossi
Kransky
Processed meats are meats that have been preserved or flavored in some way, such as by smoking, curing, salting, or adding preservatives. They are generally high in fat and salt, and contain nitrates and nitrites.
Eating too much processed meat is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, and various forms of cancer, including bowel and stomach cancer. The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen, meaning it is a "definite" cause of cancer.
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Just think about what you said there for a minute.
What 3 main preservatives have humans been using to preserve food for centuries?
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