dwacôn wrote:

> My childhood memories were of my dad making bacon.
>
> He'd go to the butcher for thick cuts of bacon with the rind intact.
>
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Our butchershop has this kind of bacon. It is good stuff! I use it in
baked brown beans that I can up for later use. The bacon that comes in
those vacuum packs in the grocery store are flavourless and too thin to
be of much use, IMO. Other bacon style items our butchershop has - salt
pork which is like a 4" block of very salty bacon, unsalted pork back
that looks like bacon without the salt - both are great ingredients to
cook with.