watch out you greasy spoons fans.......

[Syd_B]

Bacon is processed meat? Sausage and black pud are processed, but bacon cant be, Its just sliced off the pig, unless Im wrong and it is regurgitated, re constituted scrapings from the floor of the abattoir.

[Peter]

Bacon is cured, ie preserved with salt and other preservatives, including saltpetre to keep it pink. Unprocessed bacon is just pork.

 

Cheap bacon is just injected with lots of brine to bulk the weight up, properly dry or brine cured bacon actually looses weight during the curing process.

 

 

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[s.varty]

Sure theres someone out there thats thought, the supermarkets have taken a massive blow (horsemeat), lets hit the small butchers

[skyhuck]

We have been being told that bacon and other processed meats are not good for years, way before the horse meat debacle.

 

I'm pretty sure supermarkets sell way more "processed meat" than butchers, I'm sure they really wish this was not in the news to add to their horse trouble.

[Joe Newton]

So after much research experts have come to the conclusion that eating greasy fried food can shorten life expectancy?

 

 

Well I'll be...

 

Glad this is where the funding is going... Hows that cure for cancer coming along?

[Syd_B]

That's scuppered the guys that buy lidl own brand, but I get all my gear from the local butchers. Smoked because I dont like the taste of salted.

 

I know what you mean about the drying processing the meat, but I thought that could be said of all meats, you buy chopps that have been glazed etc, you dont actually buy a carcass anymore(though it would be better getting a carcass from your local farmer or even better your own small holding.)

 

Sorry, its a pet peeve of mine that we as a society are over reliant on big supermarket chains to do everything for us.

[Syd_B]

Sure theres someone out there thats thought, the supermarkets have taken a massive blow (horsemeat), lets hit the small butchers

 

That sounds very likely, and I'm NOT a conspiracy nut.

[s.varty]

As skyhuck says, supermarkets sell much more processed meat than the small butchers, but small butchers mainly only sell meat and cant cope with a large drop in meat sales, whereas the big boys sell absolutely everything and a drop in meat sales wont affect them at all.