We bought 12 pounds of bacon.

"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
12/16/2016 at 21:19 • Filed to: None

I’m in Vermont for the weekend of amazing skiing in Vermont. It was a low of minus 22F on the mountain today so we were mildly cold. Supposed to be a bit warmer tomorrow and nearly summer on Sunday with ~40 degrees. Since we love bacon, we decided to buy 12 pounds of it. Yes twelve whole pounds!

We fit 3 sets of skiis and two snowboards on the roof rack. Plus 4 guys in the car and all of our stuff. Mazda 3 hatch is pretty darn practical! Aftermarket exhaust sounds quite nice too. Needs a giant turbo though.

DISCUSSION (19)

just-a-scratch > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
12/16/2016 at 21:25

Bacon strips and bacon strips and bacon strips so, uh, epic meal time?

http://www.epicmealtime.com

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
12/16/2016 at 21:40

You bought the wrong bacon, son. You’re in Vermont, VT Smoke and Cure, Dakin Farm, or GTFAC. (McKenzie is acceptable if you’re budget constrained).

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
12/16/2016 at 21:42

I didn’t even know Vermont was well known for bacon. I just know this kind was so good last year that I had to buy a bunch more to bring home

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > just-a-scratch
12/16/2016 at 21:46

I didn’t even know these were still a thing! I remember seeing them before YouTube channels were even a thing. Probably before Google even had anything to do with them.

jimz > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
12/16/2016 at 21:47

when you’re skiing in Vermont, “12 lbs of bacon” is basically “almost out of bacon.”

source: me, spending my day sitting in a tree in the Thumb of Michigan, which right now is about as cold as Vermont. i’d have loved to have some bacon to munch on; alas, I brought no food.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
12/16/2016 at 21:50

Vermonters don’t abide crappy bacon. If it’s not local it has to at least be good to be sold here. The VT smoke and cure is, honestly a bit pricy, but very good. Dakin Farm is even better, but hard to find outside chittenden and addison county. If you go to the factory store they sell ends and trim for half price. They also have other fine meat-foods and smoked cheeses...

Vermont Salumi Co Bacon is high quality, but too sweet in my oppinion. There are also many small, local smokers that do very fine bacon.

jimz > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
12/16/2016 at 21:51

what’ll really bake your noodle is that apparently, for some reason, Vermont is famous for curry.

well, that is, at least in Japan:

Kinja'd!!!

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > jimz
12/16/2016 at 21:52

it’s a long story...

jimz > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
12/16/2016 at 21:55

we appear to have plenty of time.

Kinja'd!!!

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > jimz
12/16/2016 at 22:10

https://www.justhungry.com/comment/18159

jimz > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
12/16/2016 at 22:20

y’know, I thought I had read something about that before, but your link went into much more detail. Thanks for that.

and I can see it. I’ve bought and eaten the Vermont Curry packs available here; where I live (SE Michigan) we have a few pockets of Japanese residents. Livonia/Plymouth/Farmington/Novi/Commerce Twp and Ann Arbor. there’s a small place in Novi (Ajishin) which is about the closest replica to a typical noodle shop in Japan. When I worked for Alpine and later Sony, our visitors from the Japanese offices always wanted to go there. and their “curry rice” was pretty damn close to the Vermont Curry packs.

I guess it was familiarity. I never understood it; when I’ve been to another country I’ve always wanted to eat their food. I don’t go to Japan or Russia to go to McDonald’s.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > jimz
12/16/2016 at 22:34

Sushi may seem exotic to us, but its traditional, and the Japanese, as a people, are fundamentaly not very adventurous eaters. Older people, like business executives, even more so. They have a strange penchant for experimenting with flavors, but the base foodstuff is pretty staid.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
12/16/2016 at 22:40

Wrong bacon. Wrong. Bacon.

I do not understand these words you wrote.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
12/16/2016 at 22:41

ok, how about if I said “not the best bacon” does that scan?

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
12/16/2016 at 22:49

To me, that’s like saying “Well, she didn’t give the best bj..” But still pretty good. ‘Cause it’s a bj. And bacon.

leicester > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
12/16/2016 at 23:28

Only 12 lbs? Amateur.

Textured Soy Protein > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
12/17/2016 at 01:53

Relevant to your interests: my favorite townie bar with the best basic bar burgers ever (a.k.a. you used to get your burger on nothing but a piece of wax paper but a couple years ago they got fancy and started giving you a plastic basket with wax paper in it):

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1488197964540891&id=116303835063651

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > jimz
12/17/2016 at 07:43

I’ll mail you some bacon, it’s cold enough out that it won’t go bad.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > leicester
12/17/2016 at 07:44

We cleaned that store out!