In the continuing saga of people who buy their food from big box stores, find it to be sub-par and then send us a picture, meet Simon. Simon is displeased with his bacon, purchased at Kmart and manufactured by the Smithfield corporation of the Commonwealth of Virginia, because it contains too much fat.
Your first instinct will be to say, “Simon, fat is the point of bacon.” Then you will look at the picture above and realize that your second instinct, to vomit, is in fact, the correct one. —MEGHANN MARCO
UPDATE: Additional glamorous shots of fatty bacon.
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want to leave a deal about the bacon
it is expired bay at least 3 months to
maybe that is what is wrong with the bacon why it became so fatty
@Greeper: I don’t know if the post was changed after you replied, but both sides are shown now. It’s just about the same on the bottom and on the top.
I’ve bought that brand of bacon before and it’s not as bad as it looks in those pictures. They don’t package it in those nice staggered slabs like most manufacturs do. This brand packages theirs in a blob, all twisted and sideways. Like they had a big pile of bacon and just grabed a handful and stuffed it in the bag. If you opened the package and pulled it apart I’m sure there is more meat in there.
That would be 150% worth the price because of all the great drippings you can get by cooking that up. Sure, it’s gross, but any good chef can appreciate that bacon.
The package has a window, so there’s no way he could not have seen nothing but fat in it. This shopper KNEW what he was getting, and shouldn’t complain about something that could have been avoided by simply checking out other packages.
@oldhat: Got bored adding propaganda to the wikpedia vegan page?
You could make a really delicious lardo crudo with that slab. Or you could cut it into cubes, freeze it and use the bacon fat to enhance the flavor and texture of your favorite recipes.
Augh. I’ve now got the mental image of a pig getting liposuction.
I think this is simple… you deserve whatever you get for purchasing/eating pork. Period.
If there is a more disgusting food out there, anywhere… I have yet to find it.
@oldhat: @Hexum2600:
Just for you two I’ll be having a bacon on rye tomorrow. With ham. For breakfast.
For lunch I’m thinking carnitas.
@roche:
I am horrified that there actually is a FMV bacon; I thought their imitation American cheese slices (which sounds redundant, but surprisingly isn’t in this case) were terrifying enough.
What I want to know, is what cheap substitute FMV managed to find for bacon? Is it molded lard or something, or is rat bacon the new bargain breakfast?
oldhat and Hexum2600, you have inspired me to break through the shackles of vegetarianism and religion in order to indulge my true genetic and Darwinian destiny. I am going out for a BLT during lunch, I will make pork chops tonight, and tomorrow morning it will be bacon and corned beef hash. If being Kosher says it’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.
What the heck was he doing buying that in the first place? Look at the bacon and then look at the package. There’s no way he couldn’t have NOT KNOWN that the bacon was more fat that meat.
@AngrySicilian: Bacon’s not “fresh”, it’s cured, duh.
Ok, I’m just reading this and I’m extremely confused. Yee talk like its the norm to have to look through packets of bacon to find one that has less than 40% fat?! Here in Ireland if something remotely like the bacon shown above was on shelves it would be like buying a lump of stake to find it was infested with maggots. That is unacceptable and you cant accept bacon that has anything less that a small bit of fat around the sides-I mean 40% fat is still disgusting!
anyone ever heard of bacon candy?
http://www.cheflifeonline.com
maybe try a bowl of vegetables you sick fucks.
I think it’s kinda interesting the way the vegetarians got slammed through out these comments. Makes me hope a lot of people will stay fat, because if they all get skinny, it will probably get even worse on the vegetarians.
@TurgidDahlia: Vegetables don’t taste like bacon, silly!
@DeeHaney: Two commenters getting slammed by the rest for remarks that were illogical at best isn’t interesting. It happens at least once a day. Please note that even not_seth_brundle, a vegetarian, agreed that oldhat’s logic was flawed.
I also fail to see how fat a person is/isn’t has to do with how bad things are for vegetarians.
Thanks for the post guys!
@coreyander: @roche: I bought fmv shredded cheese once and thought it tasted a bit funny so had a closer look at the packet. It was actually ‘imitation shredded cheddar’ and didn’t actually contain any cheese at all. Foul.
Hi Everybody!
To all the unthinking reactionaries:
Humans evolved eating all sorts of animals and their parts. Suddenly, and in a few countries, we only eat like 4 animals, and then only a few parts?
I’m not mad at you for not eating brains, or dogs, or tongues…no not at all! I won’t eat that shit either!
I’m just pointing out the painfully obvious: the American diet does not make sense (if your goal is long life and good health) and it’s crazy to be gobbling hamburgers all day and get freaked out by a little more animal than you imagined. Don’t you know where your main food comes from?
I’m not a hippie.
And I have never looked at a freaky stawberry and said, “ew, that stem is disgusting!” What idiot said that?
And yes, if you are a vegetarian and you don’t like bok choy, you are not only illogical, but stupid. Cook it better, or less, or something. Or you ain’t no vegetarian.
My logic is irrefutable. Doesn’t make it “right”, but logic doesn’t always tell the whole story does it?
You folks aren’t very smart. No offense to the rest…you obviously know who you are, by definition.
Ah, unread moral victory 836 secured!
mmmmm.
bacon fat…
guahghghghgh….
@EtherealStrife: Carnitas are great!!
I found Bacon flavored rolling papers at the tobacco store. I have no idea about that.
One of the many reasons I am thankful and proud to be a vegetarian.
The decline in quality of meat products is indicative of the decline in quality of farming. The meat people are eating are animals that have been tortured and most of them are sick and diseased by the time they get to the slaughterhouse for the final insult. My concern would not be the fat. My concern is how much disease is in the actual fat.
Killing animals is wrong.
Eating them will kill you. It’s a fact. Believe it and live a happy and healthy life.
P.S. Pigs are one of the most intelligent animals.
@oldhat:
We evolved from apes. Apes are herbivores. Humans are natural herbivores. As we introduced meat into our diets we developed sharper teeth. It can be argued we are omnivores. We have a bit of a choice. A vegan choice is clearly the right one ethically, spiritually and physically.
…. What?
Our teeth evolved to eat -cooked- meat. Our jaw power and teeth size is embarrassingly inadequate compared to primates (which relish the taste of flesh when they can get it, by the way)
To say the ‘vegan’ choice is the right choice is quite biased. We are all going do die anyways, and if we want to eat the flesh of all the poor little animals then.. that’s our choice.
Also, saying that killing animals is wrong is infuriating beyond belief. You know, a shot to the head kills an animal far quicker than being -suffocated- by the jaws of a lion clamped over your snout, then being eaten alive as you slowly suffocate. Death isn’t supposed to be pretty. Sure, I too believe that there should be better care for slaughter animals but at the same time, no one better try to take my steak away from me lest they wish to feel my wrath.
No, the real thing that is killing us is that natural selection can’t kill us off, therefore we keep passing forth bad genes =) haha, sure we can prevent a person from dying from allergies but at the same time we let them pass on their genes. Is that wrong? Well, it’s the path we choose.. kind of like eating meat. Funny, that. Herbivore, omnivore.. whatever. Like primates, we are opportunistic. =)
Yeah.. I worry about the meat I eat and the state of the animals.. I do. I fully intend to own a farm where I raise and kill my animals personally. That way, I know they’re healthy before they are my bacon =D
News Flash: EVERYTHING kills you. There is something in almost everything that causes this or that, and makes something bad happen to you. Pick your poison. Mine won’t be tofu.
I remember many years ago my mother purchased canned bacon coincidentally from Kmart. It was even a blue light special! I think it was eomthing like 25 cents a can.
It was essentially cooked bacon layered in butcher type paper that was rolled up and stuffed in a can. I have never seen anything like it before or since. From what I remember it was a product of Hungary. Although I can’t remember the brand name it was something completely generic.
THIS AIN’T KOSHER!