Concertina bacon

[DaisyNonna]

Cooked some bacon earlier to add tha pasta dish. It wasso thin you could just about see through it. In the frying pan it just shrivelled up and pleated itself. Good job I needed crispy bacon. Remember being able to have it sliced to a required thickness? Even my nearest butcher, 10 minutes bus ride away, no longer has a bacon slicer.

[scotman]

Are you sure it was bacon and not Parma ham or something?

[DTCwordfan]

??? not even a slice thickness 6 or 8....as that is what you need, minimum.

[Old_Geezer]

I recall when it used to come with rind. Now someone steals that first. Ah, the good old days eh ?

[RATTER15]

A bacon butty used to be the food of the gods for me, these days it is soo difficult to find nice tasty bacon, and I don't like it so thin or crisp either.

[sherrardk]

I was considering getting Asda 'done' for false advertising on their 'thick' bacon. I like bacon chops but the butchers around here look at you like you are mental when you ask them if they sell them.

[craft1948]

DN my local butcher still has a bacon slicer, and he'll cut all his cooked meats to whatever thickness you want as well.

[cazzz1975]

its shocking how much water they pump into bacon these days, they are a fraction of the uncookd size when cooked!

[DTCwordfan]

yep - I used to have to prepare and slice up three to five sides of bacon a day during my easter and summ holidays when at Uni.......still remember every inch of a pig side.

[DTCwordfan]

and no extra H2O in them either.....

[redman41]

Morrisons and Waitrose where I shop have good home cured Bacon on sale.
Never have a problem finding good Bacon to purchase, shop around Daisy !!

[woofgang]

Marks do yummy bacon chops and marks and wait rose bacon (dry cure ) is good.