Bacon

Perhaps not exactly, but the Oberto bacon jerky is pretty darned good.

http://store.oberto.com/product/All_Natural_Bacon_Jerky_25_OZ/98152.aspx

Yup, you can find several brands of pre-cooked packaged bacon in the supermarket now. Perfect with instant mashed potatoes.

I'll second the pre-cooked bacon, but the Hormel 3oz packages of real bacon bits are also great for mashed potatoes and well, just about everything.

Yup, if women really wanted to attract men, they should chuck the Chanel #5 and get bacon perfume. They will have very protective dog friends too :)

I have found oscar mayor brand pre-cooked bacon at my local safeway. It's dry but not too dry and last for a while when opened.

Basically, the answer seems to be that there are no more bacon bars.

–B.G.–

Maybe others are wondering like me, what is that stuff Bob? My friend's dad makes his own homemade "bacon bars". My friend brought some with him to his dorm back in college (I lived across the hall) and I can remember those things stinking like no other. Our hall monitor-person or whatever you call them made him get rid of them (and we all fully supported that).

Roses are red.
Bacon is also red.
Poems are hard.
Bacon.

Bob, I know of what you speak*, but I haven't noticed any for a few decades. That said, a trip to Safeway and 2 minutes with my vac-packer and I could recreate that at a little lower weight. How much are you looking for? A restaurant supplier (like my next-door neighbor) could probably get real bacon bits in #10 cans or a 5-pound pouch for not nearly so much per pound. Then hammer it into a hockey puck shape and vac-pack it.

The stuff keeps just fine without vac-packing, but I note that every time I've had to chase a black bear off from a companion's backpack in CA, the bear had gone for the pack with salami in it.

*I backpacked with a young women in 1984 who worked at a different BP store. She'd been told to "hang up the bacon bars on the display rack" and hole-punched all 24 right through the vac-packed portion. So she had bacon bars on LOTS of her trips that year.

I predict that Bob's next thread will be about Hershey's Tropical Chocolate Bars and how he traversed Panama (before the Canal) with nothing but a rucksack full of them.

I suppose that I could empty several bags of bacon bits into a metal form and then beat it all into submission, but I think something would be missing in the texture. It needs some sort of meaty binder.

–B.G.–

As David said, the bags of precooked bacon bits you can buy nowadays are just a non-vacuum packed version of the old bacon bricks we had in the 70's. I suppose you could add a little bacon grease as a binder if you'd like to pound the bacon pieces into a form that holds its shape.

"I'll second the pre-cooked bacon, but the Hormel 3oz packages of real bacon bits are also great for mashed potatoes and well, just about everything."

Including issuing an invitation to every bear within a mile or so to drop in for a late night dinner. A great addition to almost any meal, but it does come with that downside.

Bacon.

http://www.madeinoregon.com/Lillie_Belle-s_Chocolate_Bacon_Bar.html?utm_source=Froogle&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Froogle&gclid=CI2l3qngwrwCFUdqfgodT2UAVQ

I prefer white mint cake with my bacon bars. Maybe this is what destroyed my descending colon, I may have confused my esbits and Mint cakes.

I had forgotten about Bacon Bars, but they were pretty wonderful. We used those, and salted beef slices that was sold in glass jars. I don't remember us ever using beef jerky in the 60s, I wonder why that was not available?

Hershey Tropical Chocolate Bars! Those were absolutely not that great, but they didn't melt, did they? I later found out that payday bars don't melt either.

boars head precooked bacon comes packaged just right for individual servings of 7 slices. o' bacon

My new favorite is GoBacon. Packages are just the right size, and a little sweet. Delicious!

http://www.gobaconjerky.com

The Wurstmeister at my local grocery store used to make 1# and 5# precooked, vac- packed Bacon Loaf. Just like Meat Loaf, it was great in a sandwich, on a plate with mashed taters and sausage gravy, or just chewed-on while camping. There have to be recipes on-line somewhere but also this begs for a trip down to the store for me!