"I knew it! I knew it!"
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
All the pork is in Washington D.C.
"I knew it! I knew it!"
My son works for Sams, just made a pound of bacon this morning. He tells me that there is no shortage, but a willful holdback of product.
I will enjoy my bacon even more now. yum.
Pigs have always been throughout history a reliable source of cash and sustenance for family farmers. There are no shortages of pigs within the United States. Friend grew up on an apple farm now sold and developed into suburban housing. Tells a great story that they never had a problem with bears. If a bear came to feast on their apples, his dad shot the bear. None of the meat or organs were wasted. Whatever they did not consume was fed to the pigs. Now there are no farmers with rifles and the bears even come into the kitchens of those suburban homes where apple trees once stood.
I haven’t bought a Smithfield product since the sale. I buy Hatfield or North Country. In Stop n Shop I see Smithfield products selling for less than they did before the sale. Maybe they’ve lost a lot of customers. I know they lost me. Oh and one thing the Chicoms shouldn’t forget, land, crops, livestock can be taken back by a powerful govt. A guy like Trump just might be willing to use the power the Dems have given the feds.
One Pound Oscar Meyer bacon was $10.99 at my local Kroger this past Friday
IMHO, the price of bacon has been artificially inflated for at least 5 years, while, at least in northeast Oklahoma, other pork prices have been dirt cheap. How is that possible?
“A sizzling surprise..” Their cutesy remarks on misery.
Looking at the chart the low of 2010 was worse.
Who remembers it?
Venison
I’ve heard this was coming for a number of months now.
My freezer is stocked I tell you…stocked.
This is how great empires fall.
Ten bucks for a pound yesterday here on Long Island.
BIL drives a truck to pick up livestock for a rendering plant in Iowa. Said at the start of COVID, hog farmers were asphyxiating their pigs because there was no market. Farmers were sealing the buildings, turning up heat and pumping carbon monoxide in via vehicles. Said he had several large farms where he picked up thousands of pigs/piglets.
Stop eating bacon, problem solved till the prices come down. As for me, never touch pork products.
Now it’s gotten serious.
I remember when you could buy a slab of bacon, unsliced and the skin still on it.
Best bacon we ever got was from a local grocery (no longer there) back in 1962. It was covered with mold. Washed the mold off and it was great!
I like my bacon cut thick. None of this paper thin slices for me.