On 2014-12-12 20:13, jmcquown wrote:
> On 12/12/2014 5:28 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:25:13 -0500, "Steve Freides" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I wanted to make a grilled cheese with bacon for my 18-year-old son, who
>>> was home from high school (which is a few blocks away) because he had a
>>> double free period at lunch time.
>>>
>>> No bacon? No problem. I substituted deli Virginia Ham by making a fine
>>> (1/2" dice), sauté pan with olive oil and 2 cloves of garlic, and fresh
>>> ground black pepper. Sprinkled some of that in the middle of the
>>> grilled cheese sandwiches (made them in the same pan without cleaning
>>> it, of course, all the better to get some more flavor into the bread)
>>> and made them as usual, then I asked my son if they were good - yes.
>>> Same, better, or worse than bacon? Better.
>>>
>>
> (snippage)
>
>> I detest bacon. To me bacon is like artificially flavored lard, bacon
>> is more than 95% fattiness... I don't consider bacon a food, bacon is
>> a fat, a cheap fat.
>>
> I guess you've never had really good bacon. Even here in the sticks I
> can buy nice, thick cut bacon that isn't all fat. It doesn't all have
> artificial stuff added, either. (Forget that fake maple cured crap.)
>

Funny that a guy who knows all the best stuff can't find good bacon. I
get great bacon from my butcher. I won't bother with the crap they sell
in the grocery store. It is all liquids and fat. My butchers bacon is
quite lean and doesn't shrivel up when it is cooked.

> You're welcome to my share of ham. I'll eat it if it's served to me but
> I don't go out of my way to buy it.

He is welcome to my share of ham too. I don't mind the occasional ham
sandwich, even better if it is ham and pickle salad. Ham dinners and
ham steaks??? Only if it is served to me.