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Bacon. Real or Turkey?

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  • doorki
    doorki Posts: 2,576 Member
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    Bacon is everywhere!

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    I enjoy that you made the outfit classy by drinking wine.
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    Bacon is the new Chuck Norris. Make of that what you will.
  • xRagster
    xRagster Posts: 27
    Turkey is super processed usually. I get Canadian, lowest fat, most protein, lowest sodium. Win win win!
  • Umeboshi
    Umeboshi Posts: 1,637 Member
    I prefer the taste of turkey bacon.
  • achief192
    achief192 Posts: 192
    No substitute for BACON :)
  • Perfectdiamonds1
    Perfectdiamonds1 Posts: 347 Member
    What about Beggin strips? Would you buy them for your pet if they came in Turkey, as a healthier option?

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • PLUMSGRL
    PLUMSGRL Posts: 1,134 Member
    swine is divine!:laugh: :laugh: :wink:
  • brittigno
    brittigno Posts: 193 Member
    Gimmie the real deal
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    I don't eat a ton of cheese- but when I have it, it's full fat
    I don't eat a ton of bacon-but when I do it's real

    If I am going to eat it, it's not going to be a fake version.
  • dreamshadows
    dreamshadows Posts: 734 Member
    I prefer the turkey bacon. Less greasy than real bacon.
    ^^^^ This
  • Gilbrod
    Gilbrod Posts: 1,216 Member
    Both. Turkey is cleaner to deal with.
  • KrisyKat
    KrisyKat Posts: 740 Member
    I like eating "revenge bacon" (you know, the kind that pops hot, angry grease at you from the pan)...

    CHOMP!!! Take THAT, ya sizzlin' son-nama-bee-otch!!
  • Maude_Lewbowski
    Maude_Lewbowski Posts: 395 Member
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    Bacon is everywhere!

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    indeed it is

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    This is what dedication looks like people!
  • kunibob
    kunibob Posts: 608 Member
    I don't like real bacon. Turkey bacon is okay.
  • Fieldsy
    Fieldsy Posts: 1,105 Member
    lol, how can you compare turkey bacon to the real deal?
  • Susabelle64
    Susabelle64 Posts: 207 Member
    Real all the way, I use center cut or back bacon usually......
  • Hairhacker
    Hairhacker Posts: 174 Member
    Real for sure! I have found Gwaltney reduced fat bacon that is really good too. It has better nutritional stats than turkey bacon!
  • Jeliwood
    Jeliwood Posts: 61
    I like both, but consider them totally different foods.
    One does not "substitute" for the other.

    Depends on how I feel on a given day... today, I'd eat turkey bacon.

    Yeah, this too for me! It's like breakfast sausage to linked sausage. They're two different beasts and I like them for different things. Turkey for quick in the morning breakfast. It takes less time to cook. I like regular bacon crumbled up in soups or on potatoes or salad. Oh or potato skins!

    I never eat anything just because it's 'healthier'. I eat things because they taste good and I enjoy them.
  • MCinSoCal
    MCinSoCal Posts: 87
    We have eaten turkey bacon in this house for years, simply because it's healthier for my kids and we all like it, it tastes pretty darn good. I buy the Oscar Meyer brand from costco, comes in a 4 pack and its much cheaper than the real bacon, which is another reason I buy it.


    That being said, we do also eat actual pork bacon from time to time too, but that's more like a "treat." What's funny is my kids don't like it as much because of the fat, they say, ewwww its all fat, am I supposed to eat that? LOL
  • ohjoy908
    ohjoy908 Posts: 53 Member
    Whatever's on sale lol the boyfriend disagrees but he'd probably eat anything resembling bacon
  • Perfectdiamonds1
    Perfectdiamonds1 Posts: 347 Member
    Turkey Bacon Ingredients: Mechanically Separated Turkey, White Turkey, Dark Turkey, Water, Salt, Contains 2% Or Less Of Potassium Lactate, Natural Smoke Flavoring, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrate.

    Pork Bacon Ingredients: Pork, Water, Salt, Turbinado Sugar, Seasoning (Cultured Celery Juice Powder, Sea Salt).

    I think i'll take the pork bacon, thanks.

    Uncured Turkey bacon: made by Applegate Farms

    Turkey, Water, Salt Sea, Celery Powder, Maple Sugar, Onion(s) Powder, Spice(s)


    Stop with the scare tactics people...Worse than Fox News

    :laugh: Ya'll are killing me tonight. This is too funny
  • GermanicKnight
    GermanicKnight Posts: 445
    Look at my shirt. Even my son agrees real bacon is better! Heck, my wife brought turkey 'bacon' into the house and I damn near divorced her *kitten*. I rather her sleep around then bring me FALSE BACON!

    Yes, we had real bacon on our pizza here too!


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  • ejohndrow
    ejohndrow Posts: 1,399 Member
    REAL!!!!! Life is too short for turkey bacon!
  • Bronx_Montgomery
    Bronx_Montgomery Posts: 2,284 Member
    mmmm Bacon. Damn this discussion about bacon just gave me a ________!
  • ready2tryagain42
    ready2tryagain42 Posts: 202
    I will eat both. Real in moderation is cool!
  • Meggles63
    Meggles63 Posts: 916 Member
    Real! 'Nuff said! (need a bacon smiley)
  • cmphelan77
    cmphelan77 Posts: 23
    I love both equally. I cook with regular bacon, great to sautee veggies in rendered bacon fat. But Trader Joes Turkey bacon is by far the best the other brands get so cardboardy.
  • Elen_Sia
    Elen_Sia Posts: 638 Member
    100% real. Not even the low-sodium crap. I like my white meat authentic. :wink: :tongue:
  • delilah47
    delilah47 Posts: 1,658
    By the time they get done adding sodium nitrites and all the other poison to turkey bacon, the point is moot. Eat the real thing.
  • lilv711
    lilv711 Posts: 24 Member
    Turkey Bacon... beacuse if I'm going to indulge & eat pork, I'm going for the whole shebang: taylor ham (aka pork roll).
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