"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> John Kuthe wrote:
>>
>> I fried up 5 strips of Straub's bacon to render the fat to brown 3
>> large red chopped onions and 4 or 5 large cloves of garlic (pressed)
>> to put in my batch of "baked" beans I'm making, and I've eaten 4 of
>> the 5 strips so far.
>>
>> That 5th strip of doomed! :-) MmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
>>
>> Bacon! YUM! :-)
>
> What a shame that observant Jews and Muslims can't eat it.
> To go through your entire life and never eat bacon is such
> a tragedy! Worse than never eating chocolate or butter.
> Beef and turkey bacon are pale imitations of the Real Thing.

I know Jewish people who eat turkey bacon, but... Yuck!

I also can't believe that I used to eat soy bacon when I was a vegetarian.
The last time I bought any was when we were making a cross country move. We
were staying in a motel while we finished cleaning our military apartment.
Most places where I lived in military housing, you had the option of paying
someone to clean it for you. This place was horrible. They were failing
inspections of anyone who hired a person to clean. They failed us the first
time too but we fared better than others I heard of. Husband had stayed
behind and they told him he had to clean the vents in the ceiling. Of
course we had no ladder or even a chair for him to stand on!

Anyway... Our motel had a little kitchenette so I bought a package of this
soy bacon to eat for breakfast. This microwave didn't work the way mine did
at home and in a very short amount of time, I had a foul smelling, burned
mess! The odor was so bad I can still remember it. Never again!

Then several years later we made another cross country move. We had finally
come back here to WA and were staying in the Navy Lodge. We came home to
finding the building evacuated and a firetuck outside. That place also had
a kitchenette and someone had started a small fire cooking bacon. Luckily
nobody was hurt and there wasn't any fire damage to the building (perhaps to
the pan) but the smoke was so overwhelming they couldn't let anyone in until
they had aired the building out for a couple of hours. We could still smell
the smoke for days after that.

So now? I buy my bacon precooked. Yeah, it's more expensive. But you can
eat it a whole lot quicker. Daughter likes hers limp and just warmed
though. But I prefer mine crisp almost to the point of being burned.