ONE OF MANY THINGS I’M THANKFUL FOR

PORK

Once turned into bacon or ham, pork must be the equivalent of Heaven on Earth. Bacon is one of the few foods where even if it’s bad, it’s still better than none at all. What other food can you say that about? About 5 or 6 years ago I grew weary of grocery store bacon. I knew that there had to be something better than purely profit driven, mass produced, “better food through chemistry” bacon.

I tried about a dozen mail order bacon brands that all had great reviews and faithful devotees. Some were great and some were no better or even worse than grocery store bacon. The last one I tried was made by Allan Benton. You could smell it through the shipping box even though the bacon was vacuum packed in plastic within.

Before it even went into the pan I wanted to eat it. The aroma of it cooking is enough to revive the dead and the flavor of the finished product was like a bomb going off in your mouth. All other bacon I’ve ever had doesn’t even equal a shadow of Benton’s Bacon. It’s a real masterpiece in my opinion. His hams are sublime.

This short ten minute video reveals that his products are the result of pure love. He’s a neat guy. There’s a small trove of interesting short videos on youtube about him as well.

If you place an order, ask for a ham bone or two for your bone broth.

 


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IS ,Just be sure to balance bacon consumption with regular exercise .In other words eat with moderation. Then take your wife dancing.

flash
flash

I grew up on fried country ham , cat head biscuits and red-eye gravy.People round these parts used to pack hams in salt boxes and turn them at regular intervals for safety. It’s a little more complex than sounds.

kokoda
kokoda

Appreciate the info; watched the vid. Pretty sure I will order Bacon and Center slices; will also send same to my son in TX.

hardscrabble farmer

IS, that was great. I really enjoyed it. What struck me was the way that guy talked about what he does and the look on his face when he was doing it. That’s how you’re supposed to live.

We don’t cure our bacon, we smoke it and ours definitely has a lot more meat to fat than his did, but it looked so good I could smell it.

Thanks again.

Francis Marion

We get our bacon from a local farmer/butcher who is a good customer of mine. I trade him hard goods for his home made bacon. His bacon is 10 times better than the grocery store stuff. Best deal I ever made. God bless the butcher and his bacon.

Stucky

We get most of our bacon from the guy on the left
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His shop is 3 miles from us, and it’s highly rated
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My point is to agree with I_S …… that store bought, mass produced bacon is PURE SHIT when compared to the real stuff. The good stuff is a lot more expensive, but worth every penny.

Thanks I_S …. always looking to try new things … bookmarked Mr. Benton and will try it some time.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Not to be an ass but, Dr Pangloss said, It’s been reported that human flesh tastes like pork.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

There used to be a packing house called Wennings in So Indiana that turned out the very best bacon. My Mom used their lard in her award-winning Southern Fried Chicken. Yum. That’s also where we took our steers and hogs to market.

Chen
Chen

Didn’t know Indiana was in the south

llpoh
llpoh

IS – I started drooling at the word bacon, and wasn’t able to get past that word. Will get back to this later. Gotta go fry some up!

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