REAL Bacon!

Usually our blog entries are aimed mainly at our UK and overseas friends and family about our time in the States. This one however is for the benefit of our US friends in an attempt to educate them a little on the delicacy of REAL bacon!!

We've just had a trip back to England and each time we return we have a 'wish list' of food to eat while we're back, things that we've missed and can't get hold of while living overseas. Both times we've arrived in the UK from living in the States, our first 'meal' has been a morning bacon sandwich ... each to their own, but for us this is a priority!

Here in the States bacon is a whole different thing to what we think of in the UK. We think 80% (or more!) meat with a bit of fat too, in the US it's more like 80% fat, with a little bit of meat if you're lucky!

The photo above is bacon of the typical US variety ... really fatty and unhealthy and the reason we want real bacon when get to England. Below is the stuff only in our dreams while living here in small town America. YUM!

Just to get the taste buds completely watering ... and knowing that we now can't eat this for another year ... here is the bacon cooking ...

And below, the bacon ready for the tomato ketchup and the top slice of bread ... delicious and something not to be missed!

It's really difficult to convey to our American friends the true experience of REAL bacon without having the ability to 'scratch and sniff' the computer screen or have a sample to taste. All we will say is WOW .... we had several while we were home and they were all delicious. Now back in the States we have one more year and counting until we can have them again!