9mo ago

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.
- 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.
  
  That's exactly what I mean. The problem obviously won't solve itself, enforcement will be required.
- Hold on, peeled fruit in plastic? Nobody would be that stup...
  Ohhh sorry, yeah
  As you were
  
  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

Oof ouch owie my planet.
- 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.
  
  You're not kidding. I went to a local grocery store when I stayed in japan and it was the same with a lot of vegetables and fruits too. My local Korean market in the US also has a lot of that.
  
  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.

Meat Candy would be a sweet strip club name.
- Going to meet Candy at Meat Candy
- .....fuck it....I'm in

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.

Fuck this.

To all who are offended by this new addition to the world of jerky offerings:
If you are repulsed by the packaging: Needless waste, totally agree, I'm right there with you.
If you are repulsed by the contents: More for me.
- 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.
  
  Put like at least 5 of them in a bag that is appropriately sized and appropriately priced and I’m all over this shit.
  There are TWO of us now!
  But yeah, I do love some good jerky. I used to make it, it's fun to do as long as you carefully adhere to food safety rules. Anymore it's a very limited thing for me for health reasons but a well-made bit of jerky is an awesome thing.
  I haven't tried this bacon yet, but if it's a bacon/brown sugar thing I likely will, the sum being greater than the parts. But the bacon premise is iffy, depending on whether they are cooking this and/or how much fat they're leaving on it, because you're eating it room temp. Room temp bacon grease, while still delicious in flavor, is still just a lump of grainy lukewarm grease in the mouth if there's too much of it.
  Could be great, could be ass. I guess we'll see.
  
  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.
  https://houseofjerky.com/
  
  How many Americans would eat all 5 in one sitting, though? If you put 5 in one pouch, maybe you should paper-wrap each slice to slow people down. Or at least put a note on the label :
  110 calories per slice
  550 CALORIES IN PACKAGE.
  Or would that just normalize the concept of eating it all?
- Finally a sensible opinion. I for one am making a weekend project out of making me a big ass batch of bacon jerky.

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.
- 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.
  
  But then you end up making more garbage by using packaging to mail the packaging.

We deserve everything that’s coming for us this century

Looks like dog treats.

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. 🤤
- Gotta try candied bacon
  
  Honestly though: How can covering food in liquid sugar result in something worse-tasting than the un-sugared food? :p

$25.99 + shipping for a box of 12 from their website.
- What a terrible price, why the fuck do people buy this shit and how is it even legal?
  Gotta be 2x the weight in plastic vs bacon
  
  Toxic masculinity is one hell of an economic driver
- "snack bacon" is $3 from Dunkin Donuts and is the same sugar crusted bacon

Idk, I'd love to get my mouth around a builder's meat candy

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
- These seem flavored, hence 'candy'
  
  Somehow that makes it seem even less worth getting lol
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  There are plenty of more convenient snacks that are much less ridiculous
  
  My grocery store sells 2kg packs of fully cooked bacon

Should be posted in midly infuriating.

It’s ok guys, it’s BPA free.
- And BnL approved.

This is bacon abuse. Respect the bacon.

It's a better term for it than "Human Chew Snacks".

Bet they're like $10.99 too

You're probably gonna wanna pick up a pack of that Charmin as well.

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.
- I think most of the problem is that the individual plastic wrapper is about 3 times the size of the bacon.

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?
- wonder if posting a display of Slim Jim's would get the same weird vitriolic environmentalism
  Uh, yeah. Nobody sane thinks single serve plastic packaging is good.
  
  Who are you responding to? I already conceded this point.

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