Bacon, how much is it in your neck of the woods?

[GoldieLocks]

I am visiting rural family in Minnesota and had massive sticker shock when I saw bacon average costs here are $7.25 a pound.

 

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[Kansas_Jayhawk]

Doesn’t make sense. Lean hogs are selling in the $.50 to $.60 range. Pork should be inexpensive off the shelf. Maybe they are having issues getting shelf product

 

[Digger_O'Dell]

All meats in Wisconsin are insanely expensive now for some reason too. Quoted bacon price about the same here. Often see even almost white hamburger marked over $10/lb.

 

[jeff of pa]

was almost $5.00 for half a pound here at the Subway/Gas station in town.
My Nephew just gave me about 5 lb of Deer Bacon recently.
So I'm working my way through that

 

[ticndig]

price gouging at it's finest . it can rot on the shelf before I would pay $7.25 for a pound of pig fat.

 

[ECS]

Bought 16oz JIMMY DEAM bacon at Winn Dixie today for $4.95. same price as their store brand.
Those high prices must be for THE HOG OF THE FOESAKEN

 

[Rebel - KGC]

LOL!

 

[Honest Samuel]

Never eat the stuff, makes me sick. If I did, the price would make me sick.

 

[fistfulladirt]

I switched to thinly fried Spam, fraction of the price and tastes similar to bacon, many different flavors and lasts forever.

 

[ECS]

Never eat the stuff, makes me sick. If I did, the price would make me sick.

Honestly, Samuel, you have forsaken bacon
For breakfast, friend, what are you making
Is it bland oatmeal that you crave
So you can start up the day
You're better off with a Burma Shave!

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Honestly, Samuel, you have forsaken bacon
For breakfast, friend, what are you making
Is it bland oatmeal that you crave
So you can start up the day
You're better off with a Burma Shave!

YOU are obsessed...

 

[gunsil]

In case some of you haven't taken in much news the problem with meats is that many of the processing and packaging plants are having problems with the virus sickening many employees. Seems to have hit the pork plants the worst. Burger was up here for a while and seems to have returned to normal prices. Bacon must be cheap where many of you live, the best bacon I get is from a farmer's market in PA a hundred miles from me. Even in December it was between seven and nine dollars a pound for local smokehouse bacon. I don't care much for commercially packaged bacon in sealed plastic packages with all the preservatives. The local smokehouse bacon has none of those preservatives and will go bad in a couple weeks but freezes well so I buy eight pounds at a time and freeze it. Yes, I drive a hundred miles one way for good bacon. MMMMMMMM, BACON!!

 

[Rodbuster209]

I heard or read somewhere, Bullets, Bacon and Beer. Gotta have them.

 

[ECS]

YOU are obsessed...

...while you seem distressed
Always poking at a hornet's nest
This is all about a bacon crave
That is all there is to say
Time to get a Burma Shave!

 

[Customx_12]

It’s around $7-8 here in California, too. Can get it on sale for $4 or so sometimes. Beef prices are outrageous out here now! The stores rarely have sales now and when they do, it’s usually on ground 80/20 for $3.99/pound or so. Don’t even ask about steaks. Luckily, chicken and pork roasts are still fairly priced.

 

[fistfulladirt]

In case some of you haven't taken in much news the problem with meats is that many of the processing and packaging plants are having problems with the virus sickening many employees. Seems to have hit the pork plants the worst. Burger was up here for a while and seems to have returned to normal prices. Bacon must be cheap where many of you live, the best bacon I get is from a farmer's market in PA a hundred miles from me. Even in December it was between seven and nine dollars a pound for local smokehouse bacon. I don't care much for commercially packaged bacon in sealed plastic packages with all the preservatives. The local smokehouse bacon has none of those preservatives and will go bad in a couple weeks but freezes well so I buy eight pounds at a time and freeze it. Yes, I drive a hundred miles one way for good bacon. MMMMMMMM, BACON!!

”Sick” may mean one employee testing positive and comes down with the sniffles. Or nothing. They shut the entire plant.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I don't know what it costs here. My wife and I share the Groceries. She buys them and I help her eat them!

 

[Megalodon]

I heard or read somewhere, Bullets, Bacon and Beer. Gotta have them.

I've switched from bacon or breakfast sausage to scrapple but it doesn't have that line's good alliteration. Old dog, new tricks...

 

[smokeythecat]

$7.99 a pound for the name brand.

 

[Megalodon]

$7.99 a pound for the name brand.

Ouch. My scrapple is 2.99/lb regular price at Giant. Found on sale last week at Safeway for 2.50 and got 2. I get the Rapa turkey scrapple and cut the greyish loaf into 8 slices, so about 2oz each. I have one slice fried in the morning and usually spread on a bagel, english muffin or toast, or like this morning, mixed in with last night's leftover potatoes.