Bacon from a butcher!

[LabGuy]

I have always bought and ate bacon from a grocery store or a diner. Well now I feel like I have been missing out all these years after buying a pound of pepper crusted thick cut bacon from our local butcher/meat market. $10/lb was well worth it. Delicious!

 

[Sabre]

My local farmers market does bacon bits, scraps and off cuts in a big bag. It makes a bacon roll interesting.

 

[Owen Bawn]

When we were kids we'd make fun of the food the Beverly Hillbillies ate. I loved the sound of "sowbelly." Years later I learned that in fact sowbelly is only available to most of us today at a butcher shop, and that it is now $10 a pound bacon. And that it is vastly superior to that carcinogenic 'thing' boxed and sold as bacon in the supermarket.

Pretty soon I'll be eating hog jowls and possum innards.

 

[Vespasian]

When we were kids we'd make fun of the food the Beverly Hillbillies ate. I loved the sound of "sowbelly." Years later I learned that in fact sowbelly is only available to most of us today at a butcher shop, and that it is now $10 a pound bacon. And that it is vastly superior to that carcinogenic 'thing' boxed and sold as bacon in the supermarket.

Pretty soon I'll be eating hog jowls and possum innards.

Salted hog jowls are delicious. Called "guanciale" in Italian, it is a primary ingredient in pasta carbonara and pasta amatriciana. It tastes like bacon's smarter older brother.

 

[MtView]

When we were kids we'd make fun of the food the Beverly Hillbillies ate. I loved the sound of "sowbelly." Years later I learned that in fact sowbelly is only available to most of us today at a butcher shop, and that it is now $10 a pound bacon. And that it is vastly superior to that carcinogenic 'thing' boxed and sold as bacon in the supermarket.

Pretty soon I'll be eating hog jowls and possum innards.

Funny that you say that because I made my own bacon. It's fairly easy to do. I went to the butcher shop, bought a pork belly (3-4 lb?), cured it and smoked it on the grill. It was delicious.

 

[mightyeskimo]

My girlfriend turned me on to her butcher. It's so good! Shown is regular bacon and proper back bacon.

 

[Rhody]

My girlfriend turned me on to her butcher. It's so good! Shown is regular bacon and proper back bacon. View attachment 1271773View attachment 1271774View attachment 1271773View attachment 1271774View attachment 1271775View attachment 1271776

Oh my
What time should we come over?

 

[mightyeskimo]

Oh my
What time should we come over?

If you hurry you can have some oatmeal too!

 

[oc_in_fw]

I remember grocery shopping in the early 80s. First stop was the butcher shop for meat, then grocery store for everything else. The butcher always had good dinner ideas. Now the butcher is only available in high end shops, and aren’t as good as the old butchers.

 

[Rusty Blade]

We often buy back bacon at the farmers market. It is good stuff, fresh from the farm up the road. No comparison to the stuff you buy at the grocery store.

 

[Messygoon]

Jumping in on this one! Thought I knew bacon. Then moved to a small town, where our local market/butcher sells his own thick cut bacon that is so heavenly that we have sworn off the vacuum packed stuff. Nom nom nom!

 

[Wid]

I make my own