Turkey Bacon

[Ripsnort]

They have finally figured out how to make it so that it is somewhat moist after frying.  I am now a turkey bacon lover.

Anyone else like it? Hate it?

Nothing can replace the real thing, but Turkey Bacon is a distant 2nd place, and I'm eating nothing but from now on (when I do eat bacon...)

[Reschke]

I eat it and its ok but nothing beats a good old slab of home style bacon from one of the hogs that my dad and grandfather slaughtered a few weeks ago. Thick and very little fat...just simply the best on a biscuit with butter and a tall glass of whole milk with three eggs scrambled up with fresh bell peppers and onions in the same pan that you fried the bacon in...OH MAMA I AM STARVING AND THINKING OF GOOD FOOD NOW!

[SpazMan]

When I was fishing in Canada a few weeks ago we went to a muslim diner that served no pork products. So the only bacon availiable was the turkey bacon. Now back in 2006 I was over in Batam Indonesia which is muslim also and they served beef bacon. So imho I would take pork, turkey, then beef in that order. The beef bacon was horrible...

[john9001]

turkey is turkey and bacon is bacon, rip has been living on the west coast too long. 

[VWE]

Mmmm bacony

[SpazMan]

If you're from Pennsylvania you could try a pork product called Scrapel.   

[Samiam]

Turkey bacon is passable, but I've gotten to where I actually prefer turkey sausage over pork sausage - links or patties. Pork sausage seems too greasy/gristly to me now. I know, blasphemy. What's worse is I feed it to my kids

To compensate, I'm teaching them to shoot and drive a stick.

[Nwbie]

went to the doctor 4 weeks ago - he said keep it up and one day you will be able to run 4 Jiffy Lube Oil change locations with your blood........................ .............

So.....

Wife has stocked our fridge and freezer with all the imitation meat you can find..... and the turkey bacon actually tastes good - less grease -- so yeah - i do like it


Newbs

[Shuckins]

The only proper bacon is hickory-smoked, eight inches long, three inches wide, and at least a quarter of an inch thick.  If it doesn't meet those parameters, it's for city-slickers.

[wrongwayric]

Turkey bacon? That's like makin bacon with something you inflate! If it didn't snort, grunt and squeal when it was alive it ain't real bacon.

Uh oh wait i just had an image of Ned Beatty in Deliverance flash through my head. Yuck.

[Ripsnort]

The only proper bacon is hickory-smoked, eight inches long, three inches wide, and at least a quarter of an inch thick.  If it doesn't meet those parameters, it's for city-slickers.

Sounds gay, Shuckins.

[GtoRA2]

Sounds gay, Shuckins.

Gay as in happy?  Cause nothing about good bacon is gay unless its an old guy posting about turkey bacon..... 

[AWMac]

When they can teach a Turkey to squeal like a Pig then I'll have Turkey Bacon...
otherwise don't screw up the original thing.

Somethings were just meant to be.

Bacon is one of them.

 

[texasmom]

Hm. Worth a try, I suppose.

[hubsonfire]

bacon:    the back and sides of the hog, salted and dried or smoked, usually sliced thin and fried for food.

turkey: 1.   a large, gallinaceous bird of the family Meleagrididae, esp. Meleagris gallopavo, of America, that typically has green, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and that is domesticated in most parts of the world.
2.   the flesh of this bird, used as food.

So, logically, "turkey bacon" cannot exist. What you are calling bacon, is really just turkey. If you like it, fine, but don't blaspheme bacon.