On Dec 12, 12:04*pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:47:58 -0800 (PST), spamtrap1888 wrote:
> > On Dec 10, 7:43*pm, Cheryl > wrote:
> >> On 12/8/2012 10:48 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>
> >>> On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 06:26:40 -0800 (PST), Bryan wrote:
>
> >>>> When the package is opened, every piece gets cooked. *No more
> >>>> returning raw bacon to the fridge. *It goes off in days, and then gets
> >>>> wasted.
>
> >>>> Bacon "is a terrible thing to waste."
>
> >>> The color goes off due to exposure to oxygen, but it's still just fine
> >>> for at least 2 weeks. *After glancing at your post I just went down
> >>> and minced up 3 raw pieces I've had in the fridge for 2 weeks and made
> >>> breakfast tacos.
>
> >>> Ever seen bulk bacon sold in loose bulk at the deli? *It's brown since
> >>> it's out of it's packaging, rather than the red of the shrinkwrapped
> >>> stuff.
>
> >> I've never seen bacon in the deli section. *I'm going to have to look.
>
> > I've only ever seen bacon in the meat department. The deli is for food
> > that doesn't require cooking.
>
> I've never heard of that rule. *Apparently many of the local grocery
> stores haven't either. *You've never seen pancetta, smoked sausage, or
> hot dogs at the deli counter either? *(baiting another petty
> argument...)
>
> Does it really matter wether you've seen bulk bacon at the deli
> counter? *Until now I had never met anybody who had never seen bulk
> bacon at the deli. *But the fact that there are such people who
> haven't seen bulk bacon at the deli doesn't surprise me in the least
> and hardly makes it post-worthy.

The goal is to get Cheryl some bulk bacon. She doesn't remember seeing
it in her deli section; quite likely her market doesn't carry it in
her deli section. Should she give up and go home baconless?

Of course not. Markets that I go to carry bulk bacon in their meat
department -- that's where her next stop should be.

>
> But the fact is that it exists in many delis - you just don't get out
> much.

Free standing delis, to be sure.

> And more to the *original* point - before everybody got so
> insignificantly persnickety - it that it is pale grey rather than pink
> because it's not shrink wrapped. *And it's still perfectly good. *It
> turns back to pink when you cook it.

If Cheryl never experiences this for herself, your point is lost on
her. My reply was meant to make sure she would experience this.