Review of Canned Bacon Says It's 'Stomach-Revoltingly Awful'
Why does canned bacon exist? So The Onion's A.V. Club can taste it and tell you how terrible it is. In their review of Yoder's Canned Bacon, available at MREdepot.com ($109.95 for 12 cans), watch them unleash the nine ounces of beastly, greasy, slime pork-based horror out of the can. It tastes about as good as it looks:
Yes, it tastes kind of like bacon, the same way Purina Beggin' Strips might taste kind of like bacon. (Not that we'd know… really!) The essence of bacon was there, thanks to a healthy injection of "smoke flavor," but the texture was completely off—stringy and mealy and not at all meat-like.
In a taste test against Oscar Meyer Ready To Eat bacon, the latter is the clear winner. Read all the commentary at avclub.com and pray you're never forced to eat canned bacon.
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6 Comments:
Is it blasphemy that people are speaking ill of bacon (or a bacon-like substance)? Or is it blasphemy to create such an abomination? My vote is for blasphemy number two. What were these people thinking?
On a related bacon note, I will be taking the July, August, and September Bacon of the Month club bacon to the cookout house this weekend. In rare gesture of good will, I will let someone else cook all the recipes that use the bacon. I'll be on Grilled Gumbo Breakfast Burritos with Cheesy-Grits Gravy and Fried Oyster-Eggs Benedict.
kitchengeeking at 5:09PM on 10/04/08
Shocking!
jami52 at 6:10PM on 10/04/08
Ah-hah! But someone has tried it: how else but through a Beggin' Strips-Tomato-Lettuce sandwich!
p.s. Steve is awesome.
lorelei76 at 8:24PM on 10/04/08
Please don't let me ever have to resort to canned bacon to get my "smokey strips of pork heaven" fix. It will be a sad, sad day should that ever happen.
beth1 at 9:58PM on 10/04/08
Before you all get "food snobbish" on this, let me remind you of something: the soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere eat this kinda stuff (if they're lucky) every fourth day.
And they crave it.
I fought there. It was a long, hard year. When you're starving, even a Beggin' Strips sounds (and tastes) good.
Is it terrific? No. Is it terrific when you have no other options?
What do you think?
I'd suggest that a whole lot of you get off your soapboxes about "bacon tasting days" and other nonsense, particularly when you're mocking the food our soldiers have to eat.
Get over yourselves and make sure you're judging "blasphemy" and "food" in the correct contexts. I'm tired of "middle America" (though there's much more here than that) rooting artificially for our soldiers, while they publically mock the very food our soldiers eat.
If your son or daughter in Iraq saw a post on SE mocking their food, how would you feel? How would THEY feel?
Straighten up, folks. Got it?
And no, I'm not a big Bush fan -- go figure.
tmj529 at 5:24AM on 10/06/08
tmj529, it's pig meat. Bacon in a can. If that isn't a source of comedic relief, what is?
lorelei76 at 11:14AM on 10/06/08