Tastes nicer nicked
 

Yesterday I made Dave some bacon for breakfast and when I got in he said it was really good but I'd made a bit much. I said "I suppose you gave it to Sarsi"- who likes bacon (for obvious reasons its an occasional treat)and he said she didn't touch it. I said that was because you were giving it to her and if you left the plate on the side making it look like you were still eating it and just turned your back for a second she'd have it off the plate.

Anyway this morning I found the kitchen rubbish bin had been raided and Sarsi had made off with the previously ignored bacon from it! Obviously it tastes nicer when she isn't supposed to have it

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Tastes nicer nicked
 

On 2/20/2014 4:24 AM, Lesley wrote:
Yesterday I made Dave some bacon for breakfast and when I got in he said it was really good but I'd made a bit much. I said "I suppose you gave it to Sarsi"- who likes bacon (for obvious reasons its an occasional treat)and he said she didn't touch it. I said that was because you were giving it to her and if you left the plate on the side making it look like you were still eating it and just turned your back for a second she'd have it off the plate.

Anyway this morning I found the kitchen rubbish bin had been raided and Sarsi had made off with the previously ignored bacon from it! Obviously it tastes nicer when she isn't supposed to have it

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

LOL I suppose that's true of a lot of cats.

BTW, rather than put that cooked bacon in the bin I'd have wrapped and
frozen it for later use. Crumbled in a pot of potato soup, for example.
Or used in an omelet. Still, Sarsi got the better part of the deal. :)

Jill

Tastes nicer nicked
 

"jmcquown" wrote in message
...
...Or [the bacon could be] used in an omelet...

Or an omelette even! I didn't know that was one of the many words that fall
into the category of "Two nations separated by a common language" :)

--
MatSav

Tastes nicer nicked
 

On 2/21/2014 12:32 AM, Matsav wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message
...
...Or [the bacon could be] used in an omelet...

Or an omelette even! I didn't know that was one of the many words that fall
into the category of "Two nations separated by a common language" :)

Ah, but we understand the term regardless of spelling, don't we? In my
world, there is no such thing as too much cooked bacon. ;-D Throwing it
in the rubbish bin seems a waste.

FWIW, Persia has never shown the slightest interest in bacon. I'm still
glad Sarsi was able to retrieve her treat!

Jill

Tastes nicer nicked
 

On Friday, February 21, 2014 12:32:21 AM UTC-5, Matsav wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message ... ...Or [the bacon could be] used in an omelet... Or an omelette even! I didn't know that was one of the many words that fall into the category of "Two nations separated by a common language" :) -- MatSav

Leftover bacon? I've never heard of such a thing! What is that?
LOL
- says she who can eat a whole pound of bacon in one sitting
- owned and operated by the Princess Rita

Tastes nicer nicked
 

On Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:25:32 AM UTC-8, jmcquown wrote:
BTW, rather than put that cooked bacon in the bin I'd have wrapped and frozen it for later use. Crumbled in a pot of potato soup, for example. Or used in an omelet.

It wasb't particularly good bacon and would have turned out greasy- I have a sneaking feeling USA bacon and British are not be quite the same thing.Omelettes are sadly off the menu until I can work out how to do in the halogen (Our kitchen is so small that the only place I can set the oven up where it in't under a cupboard which wouldn't leave me room to take the lid off safely is on the top of the main oven so I don't have access to the rings right now before I do some serious rearranging of the kitchen) and anyway I don't like bacon in an omelette as it would go crispy and crunchy and I don't like bacon that way


Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Tastes nicer nicked
 

Matsav wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message
...
...Or [the bacon could be] used in an omelet...

Or an omelette even! I didn't know that was one of the many words that fall
into the category of "Two nations separated by a common language" :)


Probably, but I don't think minor differences in spelling count (like
"honor" and "honour", etc).

Tastes nicer nicked
 

Lesley wrote:

I have a sneaking feeling USA bacon and British are not be quite the
same thing.

I think the main difference is that in the US we prefer our bacon well
done (i.e. crisp) and the British eat it with the fatty parts cooked
through but still soft/translucent. (Which would of course make
left-over bacon unappealingly fat.)

Tastes nicer nicked
 

I have a sneaking feeling USA bacon and British are not be quite the
same thing.
I think the main difference is that in the US we prefer our bacon well
done (i.e. crisp) and the British eat it with the fatty parts cooked
through but still soft/translucent. (Which would of course make
left-over bacon unappealingly fat.)

If that's the case (count me firmly on the US side over that) it's
probably a post-WW2 development. The Goon Show (in the 1950s) had
a repeated tagline "What happened to that crispy bacon we had before
the war?", which seemed to be taking the mickey out of nostalgia.
But it would only have worked if there had been a widespread feeling
in Britain that bacon was in fact crispier before the war, more like
the way it still is in the US.

Most bacon in Britain is Danish. Disgusting story about that business
for this week:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...-train-3157055

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k
Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland
mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin

Tastes nicer nicked
 

Lesley wrote:

On Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:25:32 AM UTC-8, jmcquown wrote:
BTW, rather than put that cooked bacon in the bin I'd have wrapped and frozen it for later use. Crumbled in a pot of potato soup, for example. Or used in an omelet.

It wasb't particularly good bacon and would have turned out greasy- I have a sneaking feeling USA bacon and British are not be quite the same thing.Omelettes are sadly off the menu until I can work out how to do in the halogen (Our kitchen is so small that the only place I can set the oven up where it in't under a cupboard which wouldn't leave me room to take the lid off safely is on the top of the main oven so I don't have access to the rings right now before I do some serious rearranging of the kitchen) and anyway I don't like bacon in an omelette as it would go crispy and crunchy and I don't like bacon that way

Funny you should say that - in my experience, bacon in an omelette gets limp
and soggy and I like it crisp!

--
Joyce

What business is it of the state how consenting adults choose to pair
off, share expenses and eventually stop having sex with each other?
-- Bill Maher