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Go to Trader Joe's, do not pass go & do not collect $200

Mickey
Mickey Posts: 19,768
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This is the best thing I has eaten in a very long time. You have got to try it. 

Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • Sea2Ski
    Sea2Ski Posts: 4,131
    How do you have uncured bacon? Isn't all true bacon, cured?  
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  • Acn
    Acn Posts: 4,490
    I'll be honest, I've tried this and wasn't impressed.  The Trader Joe's bacon jam though, that's fantastic.

    LBGE

    Pikesville, MD

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  • bhedges1987
    bhedges1987 Posts: 3,201
    I'll give it a go next time I am there. 

    Kansas City, Missouri
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  • blind99
    blind99 Posts: 4,974
    If you like jerky, definitely worth a try. I love that Trader Joe's makes all sorts of interesting flavored stuff. 
    Chicago, IL - Large and Small BGE - Weber Gasser and Kettle
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  • DuckDogDr
    DuckDogDr Posts: 1,549
    Girl at work gave me some. I liked it. 
    She had brought it home as a souvenir for her boyfriend and he didn't like it 
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  • Coul
    Coul Posts: 111
    just got one in our area. what do yall recommend that I look at when we go?
    LBGE circa 2016
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,989
    edited October 2016
    Sea2Ski said:
    How do you have uncured bacon? Isn't all true bacon, cured?  
    I will take a shot at this brother Ski. The nomenclature used is an oxymoron. It is used intentionally to catch buyers attention. The meat used is cut from the belly, however it is brined and jerked instead of cured. So there is an element of truth in their statement no matter how misleading it actually is to the average Joe. With that said, it's just not cured bacon, but it is indeed bacon as you will see in the following paragraph.  
    As to your second question, no, all bacon is not cured. However to be classed as "bacon", it must at a minimum be brined. Be it a wet brine or a dry brine. What they are offering is brined bacon made into jerky. Hope this helps my friend. 

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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    SGH said:
    Sea2Ski said:
    How do you have uncured bacon? Isn't all true bacon, cured?  
    I will take a shot at this brother Ski. The nomenclature used is an oxymoron. It is used intentionally to catch buyers attention. The meat used is cut from the belly, however it is brined and jerked instead of cured. So there is an element of truth in their statement no matter how misleading it actually is to the average Joe. With that said, it's just not cured bacon, but it is indeed bacon as you will see in the following paragraph.  
    As to your second question, no, all bacon is not cured. However to be classed as "bacon", it must at a minimum be brined. Be it a wet brine or a dry brine. What they are offering is brined bacon made into jerky. Hope this helps my friend. 
    Just to add to that, I have also read it is really more if a marketing ploy. They use celery powder or something similar that has nitrites/nitrates...so it really is cured. 

    All that aside, I am passing right by TJs today and will be picking up some naturally cured bacon jerky. 

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • Gunnar
    Gunnar Posts: 2,307
    @coul.....a seasonal item to try are the spiced pumpkin seeds....
    LBGE      Katy (Houston) TX
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,532
    Coul said:
    just got one in our area. what do yall recommend that I look at when we go?
    Thier pizza dough is good when in a pinch. Each dough ball will make two nice thin crusts or one bigger pizza. I'm also dig their Goddess mustard salad dressing 
    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

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  • cssmd27
    cssmd27 Posts: 345
    SmokeyPitt said:
    SGH said:
    Sea2Ski said:
    How do you have uncured bacon? Isn't all true bacon, cured?  
    I will take a shot at this brother Ski. The nomenclature used is an oxymoron. It is used intentionally to catch buyers attention. The meat used is cut from the belly, however it is brined and jerked instead of cured. So there is an element of truth in their statement no matter how misleading it actually is to the average Joe. With that said, it's just not cured bacon, but it is indeed bacon as you will see in the following paragraph.  
    As to your second question, no, all bacon is not cured. However to be classed as "bacon", it must at a minimum be brined. Be it a wet brine or a dry brine. What they are offering is brined bacon made into jerky. Hope this helps my friend. 
    Just to add to that, I have also read it is really more if a marketing ploy. They use celery powder or something similar that has nitrites/nitrates...so it really is cured. 

    All that aside, I am passing right by TJs today and will be picking up some naturally cured bacon jerky. 
    This is the truth.  Same nitrates as regular bacon, just applied via celery powder.  Always fun to catch family and friends that claim they can't eat cured bacon because they are allergic or claim a reaction.  Well, they just ate the same chemicals.

    It is genius marketing toward people that want to believe so bad and have too much time on their hands to worry about this kind of stuff.  First world "problems".
    Dallas (University Park), Texas
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  • Gunnar
    Gunnar Posts: 2,307
    LBGE      Katy (Houston) TX
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