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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Don't ya just hate... Packets of Bacon

...you know, those plastic packs of 8 rashers where the film on top has a little corner you're supposed to lift and peel back, but it never works, like it completely rips off altogether? Or you pull with all your strength and it just doesn't open, the cover film adheres to the pack by industrial strength bonding processes?

Glad I'm not old, senile and arthritic or have big clumsy fingers shaped like balloons, that would drive me nuts. More nuts!

Thought: I wonder if vegetarian bacon comes in the same packets?

Packet of baconAnyway, three cheers for Morrisons, that northen supermarket chain that bought out Safeways (yeah, "up yours" Walmart!!) They sell bacon packets that actually peel open... Proof >>

Blue Skies thinking @ 9/07/2005 11:21:00 AM  

37 Comments:

  • At Wed Sep 07, 12:02:00 PM, Blogger Brom said…

    I overcome that problem most Sunday mornings with a sharp stab from a kitchen knife! The thing is, in Bromland there is never anything left to return to the fridge.

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 12:06:00 PM, Blogger davinian said…

    Veggie-bacon comes in a cardboard box! (work that out>) And to be honest the cardboard box is better for you than the bacon... you need a magnifying glass to read the 3 point high text, 400 or so word ingredients list!

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 12:33:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Brom-man: LOL, that's normally the way to do it, but they design it to look like it should open by tab... the buggers!

    You got a hungry bunch of Bromites there :)

    Davinian: A box huh? LOL, so you throw away the bacon and eat the box? Nice. Must try that sometime :) And 3 point? So it's, not for veggie geriatrics huh? Why so many ingredients? Normal bacon is just dead pig, steroids and salt! LOL

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 01:20:00 PM, Blogger davinian said…

    It beats me! I don't have any in the fridge, so I have been looking for the ingredients list on the web, can't find it as of yet - but I have found the recipe for Faken (Veggie Bacon)... will keep hunting the ingredients as I think you will be scared and amazed at the rubbish they put in it!

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 01:31:00 PM, Blogger davinian said…

    OK, this isn't the variety I was looking for or thinking of - but Kelloggs have a range of veggie bacon in their; Morningstar Farms range.

    Ingredients are as follows, not as bad as I thought - but still a lot of crap!
    Egg whites, soybean oil, textured soy protein concentrate, modified corn starch, wheat gluten, natural and artificial flavors from non-meat sources. Contains 2% or less of glycerin, soy protein isolate, salt, hydrolyzed corn, soy, and wheat protein, sodium citrate, caramel color, propylene glycol, monocalcium phosphate, dried yeast, sodium tripolyphosphate, locust bean and guar gum, malic acid, sucrose, carrageenan, autolyzed yeast extract, vitamins and minerals [niacinamide, iron (ferrous sulfate), vitamin B1 (thiamin mononitrate), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin)], red #3 for color, nonfat dry milk, disodium guanylate, and yellow #6 for color.

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 01:59:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Davinian: LMAO - there'll be a cookery programme devoted to that pretend dead pig called... wait for it (Brom'd be proud of me, I know) "Faken It!"

    Ah, nevermind *shrugs*

    OMGG !! Lookit !! And I love the name "Morningstar Farms"... Morning Star, as in big heavy medieval skull bludgeoning implement!!

    That's a lot of crap but nothing that looks *too* poisopnous... Any nutritionists/ chemists about here anywhere? Bueller? Bueller?

    Cheers D, well researched that man :) BTW why aren't you outisde catching some rays? It's a glorious day out there!

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 02:21:00 PM, Blogger davinian said…

    ***Celebrity Faking It!***

    Wireless good buddy! Sat surfing and soaking up the rays in the back garden... well, bit of painting and decorating in-between this and that as well...

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 02:23:00 PM, Blogger davinian said…

    bugger, meant Celebrity Faken It :(

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 02:36:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Davinian: Wireless? You lucky bugger! *Considers "borrowing" housemate's laptop and installing EVERYTHING on it to go work on the patio* It'll be *at least* 2 weeks 'til I get mine and by then the summer will be over :( Ah well, Starbucks, Guildford here we come :)) Oh, but then I could paint the house. A bit.

    LOL @ Celebrity Faken It!

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 02:45:00 PM, Blogger BeckyBumbleFuck said…

    LMAO. Nothin' gets the boys talkin' like bacon, apparently.
    Really though, you need some nice slabs from the German meatmarket. Now *they* know how to smoke a nice piece of bacon....*mouth waters*

    And you have Starbucks, aye? And they have wireless there? Now I'm cranky that *our* Starbucks don't have it... ANd hey-*I* have wireless, if ya wanna come over....

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 02:54:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    My BBFK: LOL, yeah dunno what it is but the Jerries do have tasty bacon. Stoppit babe, you'll have me at it *licks lips*

    Yeah, I swear SBs in Guildford have WLAN, and I'm sure someone will read this and put me right about it :)

    LOL, yeah thx for the invite babe, I'll come and play with your wireless network, you *know* I'll be gentle with it :) OK, hang in there, sweetie, I'm just packing...

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 05:23:00 PM, Blogger rebekah said…

    well i am impressed ... i'd be more impressed though, if our standard american bacon packages came with some sort of handling device so i dont have to actually touch it pre-cooking ... it's icky you know ... bacon cooked i'm all over ... not cooked ... uhhhghhhhh

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 05:34:00 PM, Blogger Brom said…

    To be honest, American bacon is bloody awful. I thought the stuff they dished up in hotels was bad enough, thin overcooked and fatty until I went looked after myself out there for a while and found it was all like that. Oneof our millers whose out there semi-permanently asked me to send him a pic of some British Stuff he was missing it so much!

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 05:39:00 PM, Blogger superfan said…

    three cheers for morrisons

    with its fake street signs

    and pick up centres

    and big yellow signs

    and clementine juice :D :D :D

    and peely bacon!!!!!

    i always stab it too =( and Quorn. bugger the plastic, bugger it.

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 05:56:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Rebekah: LOL You need tongs girl, tongs. Disposable tongs in all packets of rashers. You call 'em that over there? Rashers?

    Market the tongs idea girl, make a million $$$ :)

    Brom-man: I can't remember eating US bacon. I need BBFK, my proxy memory to help me out here.

    LOL Cheers for the tip though Brom - did you send your jolly miller a big shot of the full English? Hey, wait, what *do* you call breakfast in the vallies?

    Superfan: LMAO We've got *real* street signs down here, chuckie ;) "pick up centres"?? What's they then? Like a Morrisons singles club?

    Peely bacon LOL

    You're vegetarian aren't you Sef? Didn't you stay at a vegan guest house in Wales? What was it like? :)

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 07:37:00 PM, Anonymous Red said…

    Once you've got a wireless machine, just wander around and see if you can 'borrow' someone elses signals. Just don't get caught... (one guy did, and is now in prison!).

    You won't find my wireless network though... its either switched off or very secure!? I don't know which myself :-)

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 08:29:00 PM, Blogger superfan said…

    peely bacon well whatever its called...

    LOL

    and im not vegeterian, im just flexible ;D

    the vegan thing was pretty cool....oh wait...hahahaha me and my rebel parents snuck out one morning and had a bacon butty in the chippie on the sea front...and we invented this mad elaborate tale that they had us taped and stuff and were going to scan us for meat traces when we went back to the hotel and were reading our thoughts and had cameras everywhere and ok our family is odd. :D

    ok, *that* was a blast from the past ;D hope ya liked that "tale" LOL

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 10:30:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Red: I set up my own secure WLAN here and my housemate's laptop worked fine on it until ntl did something to their BB Service. It ended up that ntl said I did something to my machine to lose the service (which I didn't) and the desktop is now OK but the laptop won't pick up on the network despite the settings being the same as the desktop!! Very weird.

    The story of that guy going to jail for hopping onto someone's wireless net really sucks! But yeah, I'll research this further and find out the full SP. I gotta be able to work from anywhere for cheap so I don't get cabin fever from sitting at the same frigging desk all day everyday :)

    Superfan: LOL Streaky Bacon? Pretty bacon? Piggy bacon? Squealy bacon?

    Felxible? What like a gymnast? LOL

    LMAO no, no, the family are cool, that's funny as :D Sneaking out for a bacon buttie LOL Do you have chip butties an all? Haven't had one in ages, must go t'chippy tomorrow methinks. Good tale Sef :))

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 11:04:00 PM, Blogger rebekah said…

    $$$ ... yes i WILL market bacon tongs ... i'll even give you some recognition of some sort for telling me to go ahead and do it ... um ... rashers? i hear that and think "std" ... what a funny word!

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 11:20:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Rebekah: The Rebel Rebekah Super Deluxe Revolutionary Kitchen Wonder™ Bacon Tongs... yeah I like :) LOL

    And Rashers=Std? I believe you Americans would say Ewwwww to that? LMAO Bacon rashers, rashers of bacon, that's we call 'em but don't get no funny itching or nothing.

     

  • At Wed Sep 07, 11:40:00 PM, Blogger BeckyBumbleFuck said…

    rashers? buttie? chippie? Dear god, i need a translator. Is "rasher" the cute form (although std-sounding...laughing at Rebekah) of ration? I hadn't realized the British were so cute (except for you, hon *wink*)

    And yeah, you had bacon, sweetie. The morning after the wedding we went to Erin's hotel for brunch with the whole gang. Maybe this will jog your memory....Noel's plate kept being emptied only of the bacon, while all of the other foods remained...(she's a fanatic about bacon). Anyways, I don't know what you're talking about Brom-man....American bacon kicks ass. ;)

     

  • At Thu Sep 08, 12:51:00 AM, Blogger Lever said…

    My BBFK: LOL Darlin' you already have a translator ;) Rasher could be from "rations" but may have its origins as far back as the 16th century in Middle English from the word "rash" (to cut) which is possibly derived from the French verb "raser" (to scrape or to shave) which is close to the Latin "radere", "rasus" in the past participle, also meaning to shave.

    So logically a rasher is a shaved pig ;) LOL

    I remember that breakfast, you made me try bogies or something, I dunno, but the bacon was either not there or absolutely fine. There was a lot of grub on me plate :)

    Anyway, you're prety cute yourself, hot stuff ;) :p What you up to later?

     

  • At Thu Sep 08, 04:03:00 AM, Blogger BeckyBumbleFuck said…

    *fake shocked look* What? Are you saying Americans overeat?.... "alot of grub on my plate" Couldn't be... ;)

    *tries to remain cool* Hmm, later? I *may* be free...
    *secretly is yearning for Lever to come by...*

     

  • At Thu Sep 08, 07:18:00 AM, Blogger Lever said…

    my BBFK: Americans overeat? Now you're just putting words in my mouth ;) And bacon! LOL

    I came by but you were sleeping *sighs*

     

  • At Thu Sep 08, 08:39:00 AM, Blogger Jay said…

    Wow, I have never seen such a small amount of bacon before in my life. We buy it in great big slabs in Canada (although I concede, we are big on the bacon, aren't we?) but I remember my aunt and uncle out on the farm would always get a pig slautered at the end of the summer, and they would lay out the rashers of bacon, freezing it in one layer at a time so their deep chest freezers would be filled with bacon - I always thought it must be more than any one family (even a farm family of 5) could possibly eat in a year.

     

  • At Thu Sep 08, 10:39:00 AM, Blogger Lever said…

    Jay: Wow, *that* is a lot of bacon, girl. Probably tastes better than shop stuff too, 'cos you know the history of the animal, know what it's been fed etc.

    Yeah, I got 8 rashers, but it was nice :)

    So it's over to your place for a round of sanis aye?

     

  • At Thu Sep 08, 12:24:00 PM, Blogger rebekah said…

    canadian bacon is ham!

    oh i had something else to say but it's fecking early ... i've been up since like, 4:30 ... mmm bacon ...

     

  • At Thu Sep 08, 12:56:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Rebekah: LOL! Oh is it now?

    Well if you remember what it was then be sure to report back, Rebekah - I think I have to go out and catch some rays right now - this is the last of the English summer outside ya know!

     

  • At Thu Sep 08, 03:15:00 PM, Blogger alekkomar said…

    Yea, those packets are a pain - the choice I always face is do I get up and go get a knife or scissors, or try to mangle it. Invariably, I do the later ... and then finally give up and get up anyway! ;-)

     

  • At Thu Sep 08, 05:08:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    AlekKomar: Hey Alek, long time no see :) LOL Sounds like you're having breakfast in bed there. Does your Mrs know?

    Better crank that BBQ of yours up :))

     

  • At Thu Sep 08, 05:11:00 PM, Blogger superfan said…

    A SHAVED PIG! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! my dad gave me a strange look cos im sat laughing hysterically at the laptop with headphones the size of plates on my head which are playing no music


    A SHAVED PIG!!!! ok thats the best thing ive heard - well, *read* - all day :D

     

  • At Thu Sep 08, 05:12:00 PM, Blogger superfan said…

    lever....did you just comment? are we on at the same time? ooooooo crikey

     

  • At Fri Sep 09, 04:31:00 AM, Blogger Keeefer said…

    I hate those bacon packets.....anything that stops me from consuming pig, no matter how briefly, is to be froened upon. As for vegetarian bacon.....i find they always run away when the knife gets near their ass

     

  • At Fri Sep 09, 10:07:00 AM, Blogger Vicious Summer said…

    I was pulling off one of those god-damned tabs the other day and when it finally gave way, I punched myself in the diaphragm. Totally knocked the wind out of myself. I was always taught to cut away from yourself, but now I know that you should also PULL away from yourself...

     

  • At Fri Sep 09, 06:16:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Superfan: LMAO well happy to have kept you amused Sef :)

    And were we? I'll have to check...

    Keefer: True, dude, true. Currently BBQ'ing some pig & garlic (sausages) as I tap this in :)

    Oh, you eat vegetarians too? LOL Never any meat on them is there?

    Vicious Summer: Ouch! I won't tell you about BBFK hitting herself on the head with the handset when she answered the phone then ;)

    LOL, those bacon packs are a liability - I see law suits!

     

  • At Sat Sep 10, 02:48:00 AM, Blogger BeckyBumbleFuck said…

    Oh you are SO in trouble...*tries to act all ruffled and mean*

    *doesn't work, though*


    *wink*

     

  • At Sun Sep 11, 09:17:00 AM, Blogger Lever said…

    My dear BBFK: LMFAO - *YOU* are so cute when you try to get angry with me, babe LOL

    Anyway, I couldn't swap stories with Summer of my stupid "crash test dummy" antics 'cos they hadn't happened yet LOL

    C'mere. look all ruffled and mean again, I like it ;)

     

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