Individually-wrapped bacon slices for sale in a hardware store
Individually-wrapped bacon slices for sale in a hardware store
"Meat candy" does not sound very enticing, at least not to me.
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Gross. We have to get over this ‘convenience’ packaging of stupid food items in plastic. Just like the peeled fruit in plastic wrap, this is straight up harmful.
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Sure, if by "get over" you mean support legislation to heavily regulate the use of plastic packaging. Otherwise, it doesn't matter what we do, as long as it's more cost effective to continue to use plastic, companies will.
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Hold on, peeled fruit in plastic? Nobody would be that stup...
Ohhh sorry, yeah
As you were
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Nobody would be that stup...
I get the joke but it's mostly people without the hand strength or dexterity to peel the fruit that get them.
At least that's the only people ive ever seen or heard of getting them. Most people who willingly eat fresh fruit also like to peel it themselves for that freshness
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Oof ouch owie my planet.
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Japan is the worst for this. They are obsessed with individually wrapping everything. You want to buy a box of cookies? Plastic packaging for the whole thing. Plastic tray that helps separate and display each individual cookie, so less than 50% of the space is actually used.. And each cookie has its own plastic packaging.
I didn't go and buy M&Ms but I wouldn't be surprised if each one was in its own sealed plastic.
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Quite a few east Asian countries unfortunately. The Asian grocery store down the street is probably 50% plastic wrap by weight. .
On an American note, I recall buying compostable Keurig pods in bulk from a company that advertised how comparing is good for the environment. I had previously bought them in 12 pod batches which came in one resealable plastic bag. I received a box of 72 individually plastic wrapped pods. I emailed them to check to see if maybe those were made off industrially compostable plastic. Nope.
Also looking at my kids' string cheese being wrapped and then individually wrapped makes me cringe. I have to find another solution for that.
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Meat Candy would be a sweet strip club name.
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Going to meet Candy at Meat Candy
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.....fuck it....I'm in
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This shit is as ridiculous as those small potatoes that are plastic wrapped for you to microwave at home. What a waste of goddamn plastic.
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Fuck this.
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Put like at least 5 of them in a bag that is appropriately sized and appropriately priced and I'm all over this shit. Until then, this is the most worthless addition to the world of jerky I have seen and as a jerky lover I take personal offence. Then again, I get offended by lots of piss-poor jerky products.
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Are you familiar with this (very small) chain? We didn't buy anything- none of us loved jerky enough to pay what they were asking for- but it was tempting. Kangaroo jerky? Camel jerky? Snapping turtle jerky? Very tempting.
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Finally a sensible opinion. I for one am making a weekend project out of making me a big ass batch of bacon jerky.
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You might could even post this in Mildly Infuriating as all that packaging is just gonna go in a dump somewhere or end up in the ocean.
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Dumb idea...start mailing all the garbage back to the companies that produce it. Attention of the CEO. I'd love to see thousands upon thousands of packages flood companies with the garbage they make.
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But then you end up making more garbage by using packaging to mail the packaging.
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We deserve everything that’s coming for us this century
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Looks like dog treats.
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I never like when displays like this don't have a price anywhere. I bet that single slice of bacon costs almost as much as a whole big package of bacon from a grocery store.
As for calling it meat candy: Sounds good to me. You ever have candied ham? Shit's delicious. 🤤
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Gotta try candied bacon
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Honestly though: How can covering food in liquid sugar result in something worse-tasting than the un-sugared food? :p
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$25.99 + shipping for a box of 12 from their website.
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Idk, I'd love to get my mouth around a builder's meat candy
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I guess it's a great marketing gimmick to hook people who have more money than sense lol I'm pretty sure buying a pound of bacon at the store would use a lot less plastic and cost much less though
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The bacon at the store means you need to buy the whole pack, cook it yourself, clean up. This is a precooked on the go snack like beef jerky.
Paying a premium per slice for the convenience of the snack.
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Yeah I have no idea why people are missing this part. They are ok with beef jerky being sold as an on the go snack, but not this? It's the same thing.
Yes, I get it. The plastic is wasteful...but it's wasteful for any other single serving snack item you're buying anyway. I'm not sure of a good solution to the problem....but having an issue with this but not literally every other single serving snack food is just beyond confusing to me.
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My grocery store sells 2kg packs of fully cooked bacon
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Should be posted in midly infuriating.
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It’s ok guys, it’s BPA free.
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And BnL approved.
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This is bacon abuse. Respect the bacon.
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It's a better term for it than "Human Chew Snacks".
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Bet they're like $10.99 too
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You're probably gonna wanna pick up a pack of that Charmin as well.
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Fedia isn't showing me the picture, but if this is candied bacon, it's super delicious, and I could totally see it sold like that.
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I think most of the problem is that the individual plastic wrapper is about 3 times the size of the bacon.
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I wonder if posting a display of Slim Jim's would get the same weird vitriolic environmentalism. I'm not saying we shouldn't be better, but what I'm saying is single-use plastics for convenience jerky is not fucking original. Why is this the hill you guys are choosing to die on?
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