Bacon Shortage?

[diggingdogfarm]

Hell with it
if pork prices go to high i'll start smoking squirrel, when that runs out it'll be cats then dogs

Squirrel is good, but I don't know about the cats and dogs!!!! :icon_eek:


~Martin :biggrin:

 

[red dog]

Shouldn't have had that extra glass of wine with dinner. Gettin the whirlies thinkin about life without bacon. Saw a free pot bellied pig on craigslist the other day. I wonder? Free to good home. 

 

[s2k9k]

Smoker = Good Home

 

[chef jimmyj]

Squirrel is good, but I don't know about the cats and dogs!!!!

~Martin

Years ago I got got really friendly with the owner of a Chinese Restaurant. One day I asked him if it was true that they eat and sell Cats...He told me Yes they eat them and are delicious but would never share the delicacy with a Round Eyed Devil...

 He almost pee'd himself laughing at the look on my face!...JJ

 

[smokinhusker]

I saw it and thought about posting it but didn't want to start a riot! Just talked to the butcher at a little market west of me. Skin on (65#)or skinless (35#) bellies will run me $2.99 lb. I'll be ordering some as soon as I have room in the freezer and buy another fridge for curing. They also had butts on sale for $1.19 lb...I came home with 12. 

Sqwib, when it comes to cats...there's about 2 dozen running around here...shipping is free if it means they'll quit using my yard as a litter box!

 

[linguica]

40% of our corn is going to make fuel that gives lousy mileage.  Throw in the drought and you have a perfect storm.

Good luck and good smoking.

That's the whole problem in a nut shell. Unfortunately you're preaching to the choir. As Charlton Heston said " They will have to pry my bacon out of my cold dead hands"

 

[gersus]

12! That's a freezer full!
I figured pork, and most likely beef too, will go up due to the drought. I don't look forward to it at all. The cheapest I've found pork butts around here was $1.59.... :(

 

[smokinhusker]

Major chain had them for $1.99 lb. I have lots of sausage etc to make for hunting

 

[s2k9k]

Looks like 12 threads with Q-view coming our way!!!

 

[diggingdogfarm]

Years ago I got got really friendly with the owner of a Chinese Restaurant. One day I asked him if it was true that they eat and sell Cats...He told me Yes they eat them and are delicious but would never share the delicacy with a Round Eyed Devil...:icon_eek:  He almost pee'd himself laughing at the look on my face!...JJ

LOL! :biggrin:


~Martin

 

[dward51]

Guys, we are looking at this shortage thing all wrong.....

When the coming shortage hits, the commercial producers will be impacted the most.  Just think of the wonderful skills this group here has been steadily honing over the past few years.  We may be the bacon masters of the future and can trade a freshly smoked slab of "craft" bacon for who knows what?  A tank of gasoline, a few cases of beer,  who knows since there are a lot of bacon-o-holics out there who will have no other source for their fix.....

Never thought this smoking thing would lead to standing on a street corner and whispering...... "hey buddy, need bacon (as you flip out the side of an overcoat to display a rack hanging under the coat side).

I also found this guy on the web - no cash, just bacon for barter...

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• dward51
• Sep 25, 2012

 

[diggingdogfarm]

Hmmmmm....maybe there won't be a shortage after all!

This just in...... :biggrin:

dailymail.co.uk: PUBLISHED: 11:15 EST, 25 September 2012
Russia suspends import and use of American GM corn after study revealed cancer risk.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rican-GM-corn-study-revealed-cancer-risk.html

France Launches Major Investigation Into GMO Food Following Tumor Study!

http://naturalsociety.com/france-launches-investigation-gmos-following-tumor-study/#ixzz270grO2L2

Makes one wonder if the stuff is fit for anything other than ethanol!!!! :icon_eek:

~Martin

 

[woodcutter]

Does anyone know what is the life span of the 2 butt cryo pack at Sam's? I was searching other sites and did not find a good answer.
 

 

[arnie]

Shortage? Say it ain't so! There will be rioting in the streets?

     

 

[davidtxs]

I see the price of wild hog hunts goin up lol hell we have em in the dallas area bigtime

 

[linguica]

Wild hog infestations plague many areas of the country. They are mean, ill tempered and hard to catch and still the nature lovers plead for their freedom. If pork prices go way up, it will become a self solving problem. I hope wild turkeys are next. ( the bird not the bottle) "Cook Free or Die"
 

 

[jarjarchef]

Looks like I have a way to justify buying a bow....... The boss said we could not do it right now......... Well from the way it may go with meat prices.....if she wants meat on the table we may not have a choice.......we have pleanty wild hogs around here and some turkeys too......not going to say what we have around here would classify as dear in some parts, but it is meat....

 

[linguica]

Bow hunting is a sporting art. If you can feed your family with what you hunt with a bow you are exceptional. Anyone can use a scatter gun, Bow hunters are the elite.This of course implies permission from the "Boss".
 

 

[linguica]

Looks like I have a way to justify buying a bow....... The boss said we could not do it right now......... Well from the way it may go with meat prices.....if she wants meat on the table we may not have a choice.......we have pleanty wild hogs around here and some turkeys too......not going to say what we have around here would classify as dear in some parts, but it is meat....

 

[smokinhusker]

I just bought 10 lbs of bacon for $15.99...guess I should have bought more.