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Why Spain, the Country With the World’s Best Ham, Makes Such Terrible Bacon
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Posted on 01/13/2022 11:53:50 AM PST by mylife
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To: mylife
About the only part of a pig I like is the tenderloin. Roast pork tenderloin with white gravy that’s good.
Bacon is too salty for me and I just always had the feeling even when I was young that it was laden with chemicals and it didn’t appeal to me, it still doesn’t, but I like Jimmy Dean hot and spicey turkey sausage.
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posted on
01/13/2022 1:20:29 PM PST
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: alexander_busek
“Manatee bacon... mmmm...”
I will never look at a Manatee the same way ever again...
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posted on
01/13/2022 1:23:19 PM PST
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: dangus
Could be worse: Could be Canadian.Speaking of which, do you know how to keep Canadian bacon from curling in the skillet?
Take away their little brooms.
To: mylife
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posted on
01/13/2022 2:03:57 PM PST
by
moovova
To: mylife
Have they tried making spam?
Spanish Spam?
Spam Español?
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posted on
01/13/2022 2:06:32 PM PST
by
moovova
To: tnlibertarian
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posted on
01/13/2022 2:09:28 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: dfwgator
My good friend married a Spanish girl, and I went to the wedding in Madrid. At the rehearsal dinner, her parents had 3 whole Serrano hams, each with a desginated slicer on duty. I swear, I ate half of one by myself, so good!
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posted on
01/13/2022 2:11:50 PM PST
by
Trailerpark Badass
(“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
To: tnlibertarian
Could be worse: Could be Canadian.
Speaking of which, do you know how to keep Canadian bacon from curling in the skillet?
Take away their little brooms.
You’ll soon be receiving a bill for my new keyboard
To: alexander_busek
The term buccaneer was taken from the Spanish bucanero and derives from the Caribbean Arawak word buccan, a wooden frame on which Tainos and Caribs slowly roasted or smoked meat, commonly manatee. Caribs also smoked and slow-roasted Tainos.
To: mylife
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posted on
01/13/2022 3:26:03 PM PST
by
BozoTexino
(RIP GOP)
To: BlueLancer
along with “too thick” and wanting to eat cysts (chorizo)
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posted on
01/13/2022 3:27:55 PM PST
by
gnarledmaw
(Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
To: mylife
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posted on
01/13/2022 3:40:47 PM PST
by
pax_et_bonum
(God is good, He loves us, and He is always with us.)
To: Reily
That’s ridiculous. A buccaneer was the price for earrings.
Seriously: same root word as bacon (”boucain,” meaning a sort of cooking or curing rack)
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01/13/2022 3:40:50 PM PST
by
dangus
To: mylife
English bacon is the best. It is real bacon and not the pale substitute we have in the USA.
For breakfast in Spain we would choose from a fine variety of smoked hams, cheeses etc. It was delicious. I did not ever see what we call bacon.
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posted on
01/13/2022 3:53:38 PM PST
by
cpdiii
(CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST )
To: cpdiii
We make damn fine bacon here.
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posted on
01/13/2022 4:24:52 PM PST
by
mylife
(You believe that ? You don't believe me? Unbelievable!)
To: Reily
Kinda. From boucan, over fire. But lots of beef cattle, wild, and smoked for preservation. And the “boucaneers” were pros, provisions was their game. Money to be made by supplying pirates and others, and a bit safer too.
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posted on
01/13/2022 5:56:32 PM PST
by
SJackson
(I just think COVID is God's gift to the left, Jane Fonda)
To: alexander_busek
You might note my post 36 Spanish bucanero, other sources would say the Spanish word is barbacoa. Buccan? Or the French, boucane? The BBQers being boucaniers. Others as you alluded, boucan, the wooden bbq grill, like a Webber. One of the interesting things about early history in our hemisphere is that many interpritations come from limited sources, quoted over the centuries. I don't know if that's the case here, Arawak, French, Spanish, but it wouldn't surprise me. And it all comes out pretty much the same. Other than the manatee part. Pigs, cattle for bbq is a different thing. Though I've no doubt manatee could be preserved by smoking as well.
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01/13/2022 6:06:12 PM PST
by
SJackson
(I just think COVID is God's gift to the left, Jane Fonda)
To: SJackson
Though I've no doubt manatee could be preserved by smoking as well.But they have a tendency to catch fire.
"Oh, the huge manatee!"
Regards,
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posted on
01/14/2022 12:37:09 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: dfwgator
We found out the hard way that we couldn’t bring the jamon we bought in Spain back home, had to eat it on the plane. Did you at least try to do what Lucy and Ethel did, and hide it in the musical instruments of Ricky's band?
Regards,
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posted on
01/14/2022 12:40:11 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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