Why is bacon so damn high? Did the Atkins diet cause this?

[lottie244]

Talk about inflation. Check out the price of bacon over the past three years. Well, I put mine back in the case ($5.39 per lb Oscar Meyers) and the store brand (Giant) was $3.99 per lb. Damn...no more bacon for me.

[mrboba1]

1. Well, duh.

Because of what it has been smoking!!!

:evilgrin:

[underpants]

2. Surely from all those cumbersome intrusive govt. regulations on hog farms

Uh yeah right.

[sandnsea]

3. Mad Cow?

People stopped buying so much beef? :shrug:

[Career Prole]

4. The reason? Capitalist pigs

in their starched white shirts... :eyes:

(thanks george h.!)

[name not needed]

5. Cause Canada is Unamerican

and bacon is the favorite food of our commie neighbors to the north. They didn't support our glorious Operation Iraqi Liberation, so they must be evil!

[soothsayer]

6. I've been making my own!

Much better, much cheaper. Delicious!

[Maddy McCall]

8. Making bacon? ;-)

Are you serious or just playing on words?

How do you make your own bacon? If you are playing on words, nevermind. :-)

[soothsayer]

10. I use buckboard bacon cure (I get it over the internet) and my smoker

You cure the meat (I use pork butt, unless I can get pork bellies. Pork butt is very lean---it's the pork shoulder. Bellies are nice and fatty!) for 10 days in the fridge, then smoke it at a low temp until it hits 140 degrees. I use maple and hickory wood for the smoke. Then it lives in the freezer until I need to fry some up. Outstanding!

[Maddy McCall]

11. Sounds great!

I bet it's delicious. I've done sausage, but never bacon.

[soothsayer]

15. I just bought the kitchenaid sausage making accessories!

the ones that fit on the stand mixer. Meat grinder, plus a sausage stuffer. Got a couple of good books, too, but have yet to even unpack the thing and get started. I'm a nice Polish grrrl, so I'm hoping to whip up a super good kielbasa.

[Mr. McD]

12. I have cured my own bacon a few times, (Honey cured).

I have trouble getting pork bellies. I haven't tried pork butt. Good idea though.

[soothsayer]

14. pork butt tastes like a cross between bacon and ham

It's good, but not quite bacon. Very lean, too, so you might need to add a bit of oil to the pan to fry it up! For canadian bacon, use a pork tenderloin.

My GF lives on a farm and a guy down the road was butchering a hog, so I got 30 lbs of pork bellies. Yum! Still have 15 lbs left to cure, but am REALLY enjoying the first batch. It's definitely real bacon!

[catmandu57]

7. It's been rising for years

Why? hell I don't know, it can't be from a shortage of pigs, we drove across kansas and colorado a couple of years ago and there was a major hog farm every twenty miles or so.
The only time we get bacon now is when it's on sale.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Probably the middlemen...

it's 4-5 bucks a pound here, and I only buy it when it's on sale.

But, my brother in Nebraska, where they have processing plants nearby, gets it for 2 bucks a pound.

Used to live by a weekend farmer's market where Amish bacon was brought in. Half the price and it spoils you. Can't appreciate the supermarket stuff after that.

[sangh0]

13. Because it's so damned tasty!!!

I bet you wonder why why the pornos cost more than the regular movies. :-)