2 Farmland Bacon (16 oz. bag)

Item Purchased: 2 Farmland Bacon (16 oz. bag)
Location Purchased: Dominick's / 3145 S. Ashland / Chicago, IL
Price: $5.79 + tax ($2.895 ea.)
Purchased on: 02/22/07

Review: Dominick's offers fresh and thick bacon slices from their deli counter, and I want to try it soon. Outdoing themselves, however, Dominick's was offering a 2-for-1 deal on packages of Farmland Foods Bacon slices. Checking the expiration date ("use by March 27th... all good), I opted for the deal.

Though not as thick as the bacon behind the glass counter, Farmland Foods' bacon has less fat and fries up crispy and oh so tasty.

Farmland Foods is owned by Smithfield Foods, which is renowned for their shoddy labor practices, factory farming and use of sow gestation crates. The Olson family from Jewell, IA, however, are pictured in the top right corner of my bacon package and they look pleasant enough. I doubt they participate in such atrocities.

I eat a lot of disgusting stuff every day. We all do. I will finish this package of tasty bacon, but perhaps next time I go for pork belly goodness, I will travel a bit farther than the Dominick's down the street, or at least pay more attention to the packages of the bacon I do buy.

Rating: 2.75 / 5

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Dominick's Lower Sodium Sliced Bacon (1 lb.)

Item Purchased: Dominick's Lower Sodium Sliced Bacon (1 lb.)
Location Purchased: Dominick's / 3145 S. Ashland / Chicago, IL
Price: $4.72 + tax

Review: I once attempted to become a vegetarian. It lasted for three weeks and I blame bacon for my relapse. Really, is there any meat more delicious than bacon? The natural cooking grease derived from heating it up... The smell that wafts through the air and hangs there like a buffet of odor when you cook it... The alternating crunch and chew of its consistency. Mmmm... Bacon.

Yes, it's a pretty disgusting, fat filled, heart-stopping product sliced from a rooting animal, but when I gave up veggie and came back to the world of consuming flesh, I was like the protagonist in Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses when he renounced his faith. I went out and bought a pile of bacon and proceeded to eat it on everything.

Now days, I rarely buy bacon to cook at home. A scallop recipe I am cooking called for two strips. What am I going to do with an extra pound of bacon? Eat it, of course.

Despite the lower sodium (note, it doesn't say "low" sodium), these plump strips of bacon are surprisingly salty. Not the best bacon I've ever had, but definitely not the worst.

Rating: / 5

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