What's your bacon brand?

[royalfan5]

Typically, I go with Farmland Maple Bacon as it gives me a reasonable chance at eating hogs raised by relatives. If that isn't available, I go with Hormel Black Label Maple Bacon.

[JLEW1818]

Hormel

[soonerinabilene]

wrights thick cut, or if i had a good week at work, i'll splurge and get the fresh cut peppered bacon from the butcher.

[CrimsonJim]

Oscar Mayer - America's Favorite Bacon

[Curly Bill]

Whatever smoked bacon is on sale.

The last I bought was CornKing

[beer4me]

I like the cornking myself

[Turd_Ferguson]

I likes the thick cut peppered. It's good for a bacon, cheese and bacon sammich.

[beer4me]

BLT's ahh God's gift to Cardiologists that some good stuff right there:)

[picasso]

I get mine right off the pig.

[Veritas]

rf5, I can't remember if you still live in Lincoln but if you do, take the time to visit the Super Saver on 27th/Pine Lake. Their smokehouse bacon that they make there on site is second to none.

[SoonerAtKU]

Kretschmar's thick-sliced bacon. Baked with chili powder and brown sugar. On a BLT.

Hu-wow.

[Mjcpr]

Whatever smoked bacon is on sale.

The last I bought was CornKing

Isn't all bacon smoked?

[OklahomaTuba]

www.bacontoday.com

They have a newsletter even.

[Turd_Ferguson]

Isn't all bacon smoked?I think some can be salt cured.

[Veritas]

Have you guys seen Jim Gaffigan's like 20 minute long riff on bacon? It's excellence.
This is a brief portion:
http://vodpod.com/watch/1409226-jim-gaffigan-bacon-king-baby-premieres-march-29th-video-by-jim-gaffigan-myspace-video

[stoopified]

Boomer Bacon

[kbsooner21]

Blue and Gold

[Turd_Ferguson]

Blue and GoldYou know, back ina day, they had some damn good snausage and bacon, but now.....not so much.

[Jacie]

This thread makes me nostalgic for J.C. Potter's country-style sausage . . .

[StoopTroup]

Makin' Bacon

[tommieharris91]

I figger this fits here.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/sweetpeteman/6fotilu.jpg

[JLEW1818]

Jalapeno Bacon is the ****!

[Curly Bill]

Isn't all bacon smoked?

Nope, there's such a thing as fresh bacon which sucks cause it has no taste, and there is salt bacon as well, and maybe something else.

[royalfan5]

rf5, I can't remember if you still live in Lincoln but if you do, take the time to visit the Super Saver on 27th/Pine Lake. Their smokehouse bacon that they make there on site is second to none.

I'll do that next time I am in that area of town. Which is rather frequently.

[Breadburner]

Bar S......

[Rogue]

Every bacon listed here...on sale bacon, the thick cut peppered stuff from the butcher, salt pork, side pork; more and more these days I like it crispy.

[GottaHavePride]

This thread makes me nostalgic for J.C. Potter's country-style sausage . . .

Jimmy Dean hot sausage pwns JC Potter.

And thick-cut pepper bacon makes the best gravy.

[LoyalFan]

Jimmy Dean hot sausage pwns JC Potter.

And thick-cut pepper bacon makes the best gravy.

And Owens Sausage pwns Dean's.
Less fat and better flavor. I buy the regular and make sausage 'n aig breakfast burritos by mashing the sausage into bits as I cook it, adding some cumin, chili powder, a tad of garlic powder (NOT garlic salt), and some red pepper, then scrambling some hen fruit into it. I roll the resultant melange into a large burrito-size tortilla, after spooning some salsa therein, and I'm eatin' fine...mighty fine.

LF

[GottaHavePride]

See, I like Owens if I can't get Jimmy Dean. The Jimmy Dean is hotter. ;)

Actually, the best sausage is when I just buy ground pork and add my own spices to it...

[LoyalFan]

And furthermore...
I really like HEB supermarkets' house brand thick-sliced bacon. But I hate to waste it by cutting it up to flavor beans and other stuff so I buy bacon scraps in a 3-lb package for such purposes. There's usually some huge thick portions and a lot of lean in the package, perfect for adding porky goodness and something to chew on to pintos, limas, lentils, etc.
Wayyyyy cheaper too.

LF

[GottaHavePride]

They sell bacon scraps? I have to find a store that does that now...

:)

[LoyalFan]

They sell bacon scraps? I have to find a store that does that now...

:)

HEB, the major chain down here, sells it in 3Lb sealed packages which are encased in a paper box. You might call around and see where you may find that or similar. It's not a house brand so it's not limited to HEB.
It's a crapshoot but I've always found a lot of big chunks of lean in them.
LF

[Crucifax Autumn]

I can't remember the last time I was in a store that didn't sell the big box of ends and pieces.

[proud gonzo]

corn king
hormel black label
plumrose
Bar S

[mikeelikee]

Right Brand Bacon. It's like "meat candy"! :D