Results tagged “Bacon” from Birmingham Mail - Is It Just Me

After trying to fry bacon and ending up with a watery stew again I have decided to start the Campaign for Real Bacon. We could call it Camrb but that looks a bit silly, so why don't we call it Buttie

I think we can forget the supermarkets in this campaign, they are more than happy charging bacon prices for water - helps keep the record profits rolling in - so it is down to independent shops. If you know of any let us all know and we will build up the definitive bacon directory.

To start you off if anyone is heading off to Cornwall for their holidays or even a weekend away and is passing west through Camelford there is an old fashioned butchers on the left at the bottom of the hill who sells bacon like it used to be before someone discovered how to pack it with water. Well worth stopping off for and the rest of their meat is pretty good as well.

What have we let them do to our bacon?

Once was that frying bacon left you with tasty fat to first fry eggs and then bread for a full English.

Now even good quality bacon shrinks to an apologetic, insipid pink and oozes some unidentifiable white puss along with gallons of milky water once it hits the pan leaving you with more of a boil-up than a fry-up.

Don't give me any cobblers about cholesterol and healthy eating or, as one supermarket told me with a straight face, that added water makes the bacon more succulent and customers prefer it.

The water is only there for one reason - it is a lot cheaper for manufacturers and supermarkets than bacon and they are more than happy to charge you £3.50 a pound or whatever for what comes out of the tap.