In message Steve Wertz > wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:00:22 -0400, Goomba38 wrote:
>
> > Nancy2 wrote:
> >
> >> I'd be curious to know why national branded bacon is $5/pound, right
> >> here in the middle of pork country. (Store brand is half that, but
> >> typically unsatisfactory in quality.)
> >
> > Oscar Mayer is my bacon of choice. Last time I bought it I paid maybe
> > $3.00 a package??
>
> $1.60lb at CostCo (in a 4-pack). This stuff cooks up too thin. I
> think it's adulterated/pumped-up somehow (err...more than most
> bacon, that is).
>
> -sw

We used to get 'shrink-proof' bacon in every butcher's shop in Britain until
the stupid markets slithered in, under the guise of 'Everything we sell is
unbeatable in value and of a high quality'. They cornered almost every market
and drove other smaller businesses to the wall.

All we get now is pumped ut bacon like a car tyre. But the sneaky thing is
that you can't tell until you cook it!! We're all too lazy to complain and
just try another stupid market. Yep, I know, it's really our own fault for
falling for the 3 card trick. I still feel peeved though, at how they have
devalued taste and and reduced everything to the lowest common denominator:
'their value for their money'. Hell it doesn't take an Einstein to work out
who's being duped!!

Don