How do you like your Bacon Cooked ?

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Tulip

I actually don't eat bacon.

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

what was that story about the lady giving her husband head in the kitchen, and him spilling hot bacon grease down her back some how, and then she bit down.... and he whacked her with the pan.....i tried to google it... no luck.

I know it! And when the ambulance comes to get them, the driver gets out and runs around to the back to open the door and there is a hook stuck in the door handle!

[TheMercenary]

I love it cooked to a crisp. Not burnt but close.

[BrianR]

I must be weird.

I prefer my bacon barely cooked until it's still flabby. No cripsiness needed. It keeps all it's natural flavor that way. Crisper bacon has proportionately less taste, IMO.

Oh and I keep bacon grease too, same as Pie does.

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by BrianR

Oh and I keep bacon grease too, same as Pie does.

♪ ♫ They serve their chicken fried in bacon grease;
it's just down the road, down the road a piece ♪ ♫

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Little Johnny's parents are in the bedroom, sampling some afternoon delight. Dad walks out and Johnny asks what they'd been doing. "Making bacon!" Dad replies.

Next day it's Mum who comes out of the bedroom first.
"You've been making bacon" says little Johnny.
"Yes we have" replies Mum, "How can you tell?"

"The fat is running down your leg"

Man, that joke is OLD! I think I heard it first in 7th grade. (tho' it referenced a turkey sandwich and mayonnaise.)

[Yznhymr]

What's better than bacon wrapped bacon?

I like Canadian Bacon wrapped with Salt Pork wrapped with Pancetta wrapped with Prociutto wrapped with Double-Smoked Thick Sliced Bacon wrapped with Slab Bacon and topped with Bacon-bits.

Yeah, I'm serious about bacon.

[Clodfobble]

We ordered takeout from this authentic Chinese place near us the other night. I got "Pork Soup with Chinese Pickles" and Mr. Clod got "Pork with Preserved Vegetables." The lady on the phone was extremely dubious--first she said, "You are Chinese?" Mr. Clod laughed and said he was about as white as they come, and she said, "Oh, your wife is Chinese then." He assured her I was not, but that we liked to eat interesting food, and we weren't scared. She was unconvinced. When I went to pick up the order, she again questioned me on what sort of experience we had eating real Chinese food, and you could tell she really, really wanted to just take the food back and bring me a nice container of fried rice and sesame chicken instead.

Anyway, I finally made it out of there, by now extremely curious about what crazy thing we'd committed ourselves to eating. Turns out that in both cases, where the menu said "pork" they really meant "bacon." Mr. Clod's dish was basically half a package of bacon, laid on top of this unidentifiable stuff that looked like very sauteed onions--like French Onion Soup without the soup. It tasted awesome. And my soup was essentially a clear broth with gigantic pieces of cabbage, and the other half of the package of bacon. Also delicious. I really don't understand why the lady thought we wouldn't like them; it's not like the flavors were strange or inaccessible.

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by Yznhymr

What's better than bacon wrapped bacon?

I like Canadian Bacon wrapped with Salt Pork wrapped with Pancetta wrapped with Prociutto wrapped with Double-Smoked Thick Sliced Bacon wrapped with Slab Bacon and topped with Bacon-bits.

Yeah, I'm serious about bacon.

Please invite me to your home for supper.

[Shawnee123]

How do I like my bacon cooked?

In sets of ten.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

I wonder why taste and texture is different. Isn't a pig a pig?

Curing technique; otherwise a ham would come out indistinguishable from a pork shoulder, and bacon (streaky) from salt pork.

and gammon sounds inedible for some reason.

Perhaps this is why?

From a 101st Airborne page on equipment:

GAMMON GRENADE
The British-made device known as the 'Gammon Grenade' was a mixed blessing. The cloth bag was stuffed with varying amounts of composition C-2, an early form of plastic explosive. This could create a blast comparable to an exploding 105mm artillery shell. The user would hurl the grenade, holding onto the strap, which armed the device as it flew through the air. Although these grenades had a devastating effect on the target, they were almost as hazardous to the user. The [fulminate of mercury] detonators were highly unstable, and many instances of accidental detonation took place. Lt Robert Pick, an S-2 officer of the 502 PIR, was seriously injured in England during the summer of 1944, while demonstrating a Gammon Grenade. An 82nd Airborne trooper accidentally dropped one in Normandy while marching. It exploded, killing him and wounding several of his buddies. Photo courtesy Dennis Davies.

Scroll way down.

I'd always, because of this, understood gammons to be small hams, no bigger than both one's fists set together.

The gammon grenade developed as a less exciting/perilous alternative to that rather desperate antiarmor weapon, the Sticky Bomb -- a considerable charge of explosive encased in knit fabric impregnated with birdlime, the whole contraption protected in a handy hinged cover. You ran up to tanks and chucked it at them and it would stick, you see, to their presumable detriment when the fuse ran out. But do handle with care -- if it accidentally got stuck to your battledress in all the excitement, any problems with constipation just might be at an end.

Sticky Bomb (enlargeable images)

[Griff]

There must be a nitrite connection here somewhere...

[ZenGum]

[Thread Drift]

When I was n high school in the late 80s, there were two lads from Afghanistan who had been smuggled out when the Russians put prices on their heads. They had been approaching tanks to cell 'cigarettes' to the crew, and when the crew opened the hatch to buy them, would drop in a grenade.

No one messed with those kids.

[monster]

right. should have wrapped the grenade in bacon.

[ZenGum]

In Afghanistan? Tres haram, dude.