Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Turkey Bacon

One of the strangest culinary experiences I've had so far in the US is the idea of Turkey Bacon. As you may know, American's love the taste of bacon. You can get bacon salt, bacon mayonnaise, a bacon AK-47 (no, really) over here. 


However, they only really like the taste, the piggy product has lots of things wrong with it. It's too fatty, too salty and useless if you happen to be Jewish. So necessity being the mother of invention, a substitute was invented. Turkey bacon. According to wikipedia turkey bacon is "a meat product usually prepared from smoked, chopped and reformed turkey". 


In the name of scientific research and new experiences I tried some, and is it as good as bacon? No. Surprisingly it tastes like salty smoked turkey, only worse. The things I do for you, dear reader.




Real bacon on the left, turkey bacon on the right.



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