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Title: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Ripsnort on June 17, 2008, 09:36:20 AM
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...)
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Reschke on June 17, 2008, 09:46:58 AM
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!
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: SpazMan on June 17, 2008, 10:17:05 AM
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... :D
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: john9001 on June 17, 2008, 10:37:42 AM
turkey is turkey and bacon is bacon, rip has been living on the west coast too long.  :)
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: VWE on June 17, 2008, 10:44:13 AM
Mmmm bacony (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/213/464546419_ea3f737d2a.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: SpazMan on June 17, 2008, 10:53:42 AM
If you're from Pennsylvania you could try a pork product called Scrapel.    :uhoh
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Samiam on June 17, 2008, 12:03:50 PM
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 :eek:

To compensate, I'm teaching them to shoot and drive a stick.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Nwbie on June 17, 2008, 12:09:11 PM
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

Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Shuckins on June 17, 2008, 12:12:15 PM
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.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: wrongwayric on June 17, 2008, 05:45:39 PM
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. :D

Uh oh wait i just had an image of Ned Beatty in Deliverance flash through my head. :O Yuck.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Ripsnort on June 17, 2008, 05:51:56 PM
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.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: GtoRA2 on June 17, 2008, 05:55:53 PM
Sounds gay, Shuckins.

Gay as in happy?  Cause nothing about good bacon is gay unless its an old guy posting about turkey bacon.....  :aok
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: AWMac on June 17, 2008, 06:03:39 PM
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.

 :P
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: texasmom on June 17, 2008, 06:24:26 PM
Hm. Worth a try, I suppose.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: hubsonfire on June 17, 2008, 06:28:53 PM
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.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: whiteman on June 17, 2008, 06:29:15 PM
Turkey bacon should be outlawed, or have the word "bacon" removed from it.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: AWMac on June 17, 2008, 06:35:18 PM
Turkey Bacon is the answer to the old question "Yeah, When pigs fly!"

What's next?

 :huh
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: DieAz on June 17, 2008, 06:38:17 PM
Turkey bacon should be outlawed, or have the word "bacon" removed from it.

maybe call it what it is. turkey jerky.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: whiteman on June 17, 2008, 06:42:03 PM

maybe call it what it is. turkey jerky.

catchy name and an accurate description.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Ripsnort on June 17, 2008, 07:17:03 PM
Turkey bacon should be outlawed, or have the word "bacon" removed from it.

The word is derived from the Old High German bacho, meaning "back".
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: AWMac on June 17, 2008, 07:19:56 PM
"bacho barama"

 :P
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: hubsonfire on June 17, 2008, 07:38:11 PM
Turkey originally referred to the guinea fowl from Madagascar. So what?

Turkey bacon is just turkey, not bacon.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Shuckins on June 17, 2008, 09:17:27 PM
Rip..Rip...Rip. <tsk>  There ain't no hope for ya son.  There just ain't no hope.  Ya need to leave them left-coast digs of your'n and visit the heartland for a while.  Kill a hog or two...scald it....gut it...butcher it....salt it...smoke it...fry the bacon for breakfast.

It'll put hair on your chest.  Your head will take stronger medicine.


Bye the bye...any of you city-foke ever eaten salt pork with the rind still on it what's been dredged in flour and fried in bacon fat?  Tastes great but it'll give ya a heart attack just lookin' at it.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: DieAz on June 17, 2008, 09:56:34 PM
dang Shuck, now you got me a hankering for some cracklin cornbread with buttermilk.
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Meatwad on June 17, 2008, 09:57:08 PM
Rubber bacons sound better  :mad:
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Ripsnort on June 17, 2008, 09:57:25 PM
Rip..Rip...Rip. <tsk>  There ain't no hope for ya son.  There just ain't no hope.  Ya need to leave them left-coast digs of your'n and visit the heartland for a while.  Kill a hog or two...scald it....gut it...butcher it....salt it...smoke it...fry the bacon for breakfast.

It'll put hair on your chest.  Your head will take stronger medicine.


Bye the bye...any of you city-foke ever eaten salt pork with the rind still on it what's been dredged in flour and fried in bacon fat?  Tastes great but it'll give ya a heart attack just lookin' at it.
LOL...I grew up on a farm in Minnesota. ;) We had cows, chickens, ducks and geese, but no pigs!
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Shuckins on June 17, 2008, 11:48:21 PM
NO PIGS!?   :huh  Ain't you an AMERICAN!?  Not a closet Muslim are ya?
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Shuckins on June 17, 2008, 11:52:45 PM
DieAz...if ya like cornbread crumbled in buttermilk....then you would love what me and my granddad used to drink when he had a flare up with his ulcer....glass of sweet milk with two raw eggs and a heaping tablespoon of sugar stirred in.

Man!  That...with bacon, eggs, toast, and grits would really git yer day off to a good start!
Title: Re: Turkey Bacon
Post by: Pei on June 18, 2008, 04:03:47 AM
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...)

Needs more pig.