The Magic Bacon Trick

nicebloke1 | 14:21 Fri 22nd Mar 2019 | ChatterBank

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The average bacon pack in supermarkets started out at 400 grams, and yes I know you can still buy different weights, this was the average every day weight pack. It then dropped to 350grams, then 300, then 250, now 200 and even below. They now put the weight on the back of the pack, and encourage us to buy their pack by telling us how many bumper slices we have, the thickness of the bacon as gone from wafer thin to tissue thin.

If you like magic tricks buy a pack of supermarket bacon, pop into the pan watch it swim about in white bubbles, and then disappear in front of your eyes.

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Atheist

Maybe stop eating pig meat?

retrocop

It has been known that Supermarket pre packed bacon has been pumped up with water to increase the weight. So the consumer is paying for H.2.O and not pork meat. That is where the white froth eminates when cooked. Again Ibelieve there is some merit in what nicebloke reports.

retrocop

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1350926/Supermarket-bacon-pumped-water.html

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/jul/27/water-in-bacon-new-rasher-regulations

New Judge

"why would anyone want to buy bacon from the supermarket? get it from a butchers"

If only. I live in a reasonably affluent town in the suburbs of a large city. The town does not have any butchers, or a greengrocers for that matter. The nearest place I can get meat other than in a supermarket is in a "Garden Centre" eight miles away (which has a butcher's who rents space).

This has nothing to do with supermarkets killing the town. The town was dead long ago and the principle reason for that is the extortionate rent and rates that businesses must shell out, as mentioned in my answer to this question:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Business-and-Finance/Question1650017.html

Retailers simply cannot afford to pay the council a grand a month for the privilege of occupying a tiny shop. That's why in my High Street you can get your hair cut, buy a house, have a cup of coffee, get your nails done or visit a charity shop. But you cannot buy bacon from a butcher's.