MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week without eating bacon (so sad) the passing of a great business leader in the world of meat (also very sad) and some bacon news. Ending with a comparison of fried eggs from three sources.
BACON CAUSES SMOG? Some Chinese officials are blaming the numerous bacon-smoking factories for the smog enshrouding cities. Check out this site from The Telegraph. They report that "Rao Bing, deputy head of the Dazhou environment protection bureau said the city's ongoing bout of "lingering smog" since January should be blamed on the local affection for smoking bacon, Xinhua reported." Chinese bureaucrat claims bacon is to blame. Yeah, right.
Of course you can blame bacon - forget about all the cars, diesel trucks, other factories and construction! Blame bacon! Easy target! But I agree with one or who said:
"Only a pig-headed person would think that air pollution was caused by smoking bacon," commented one.
BACON CURES DISEASE! Mother Jones reports that bacon can cure at least three maladies, including nosebleeds! Here's the link. I like it. If you're primal / paleo / low carb, the claim is that it cures diabetes, and other metabolic cyndrome-related diseases, too.
BACON ICON PASSES. This is very sad. My favorite all-time bacon is Nueske's. The company's leader, Bob Nueske, passed on January 5th. This very nice article talks about the transformation of his company into the market leader that it is - out of Milwaukee, WI. I hope there's bacon in heaven! Photo from the link: The Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal.
FINALLY, WHAT DOES BACON GO WITH? EGGS.
Shifting gears from my normal routine of evaluating bacon (only because I've been too lazy to find and order sugar-free bacon on my TheWhole30.com program), I'm giving you some eggs.
I purchased three dozen eggs from The Fresh Market yesterday, and fried one of each, sunny-side-up but with a well cooked bottom. This is a great way to have an egg. You get to get the full flavor of the yolk with a solid base.
The eggs are from Vital Farms, 365 (the Whole Foods brand) and Farmers Henhouse. Non-clickable images of their home page from Vital and Henhouse below (links to the left are clickable). I like "The Happiest Hens in the World". How do you quantitatively measure a hen's happiness? And why would that be important? I have heard people say that a "happy pig is a tasty pig"... I wonder if there have been any studies. Topic for another post!!!
All are 'cage free', which generally just means that the door is open so the chickens can go outside if they want to. They don't want to. In any event, all three were perfectly satisfactory eggs. I don't think they are worth the very high price (approaching $5 a dozen for the Vital and Farmers) compared to a normal brand. The Vital Farms egg was the richest flavor, as well as the a very 'orange' colored yolk. The Farmers Henhouse was second in 'orange-ness' and had good flavor. The 365 brand was quite satisfactory in all respects. Its white ran the most (had the least consistency), the yolk was the softest and it was the least yellow. No real hands-down winner but a slight tip to the Vital Farms brand. Still not worth 3X the regular brands. Enjoy!
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