Sausage or bacon?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Sausage or bacon?
In Northern California, it is an accepted truth that bacon is the answer to all questions.
The answer to all questions is chocolate. And for lifelong Californians, that would be See’s chocolates.
(Had sort of a shock yesterday in stopping at See’s to pick up a few suckers. They were a nickel when I was a kid but are now 75 cents. That nickel was 4% of the minimum wage of $1.25. It probably cost a dime before the minimum wage was increased under LBJ; so perhaps an average of 6% for a sucker would be more historically accurate. That 75 cents would be 6% of $12.50. Golly gee the price of a See’s sucker could tell us what the minimum wage should be.)
Does Sees make a bacon chocolate? That would be the ultimate answer.
Seems to have resisted the craze to baconize everything. For that you’ll have to go to Amazon dot com. Should remain available for a few more nanoseconds until this fever breaks and people realize that a chocolate covered bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich sucks.
I hate to say it but I was raised that Sees was the answer to any problem any time any way. The Sees family lived locally when I was growing up and our community was damn proud of that. Unfortunately, I’ve noticed since Warren Buffett added Sees to his portfolio that the chocolate quality seems to have declined and seems to be not as fresh as it used to be. Sigh, I did so love that vice.
That would be totally inconsistent with how Buffett operates. He bought See’s because he really liked the candy and wanted it to continue just as it was. SOP for him.
I noticed no change from when I was a kid to when Buffett bought it in 1972 or anytime since then. (Another key to this company is that the confectioner’s in their candy factories hold on to their jobs for decades.)
What See’s candies don’t do well is travel by freight. Having some shipped to me when I lived in PA wasn’t a good idea. OTOH, hand carried by a passenger on an airplane is fine.
I agree inconsistent. But since I was raised on Sees in the 60’s before he bought it the quality is quite different. Granted my dad used to buy Sees right in their backyard, but now that I’m a thousand miles away the local store has a much poorer quality. And yes, when I’ve ordered online they come packed in cold packs which is expensive but I’ve returned them because they are past expiration. When they shipped me an exchange it also came with product past expiration. Oh well.
As I said, See’s doesn’t travel well. No change in the recipes or quality. It’s where you live that’s changed. As well as your taste buds being older. And perhaps you would never have preferred See’s when you were a kid if you’d had other choices.
Both, isn’t an option?
It may not be a healthy option – but, it’s an option!
Both is the only option
Yes.
Wow. This might well be the toughest “Serious Question” you have ever posed.
I’m going to have to go with bacon. But if the sausage leads to sausage gravy and homemade biscuits, then sausage probably leaps to number one. Without the gravy and biscuits, though, I’m afraid the sausage is simply a bridesmaid.
How about Goetta?
Well, I love goetta. But most people don’t have a clue what goetta is. One of my earliest memories is eating goetta when I would stay with my grandma. In fact, I make my own goetta from time to time. I have 4-5 pounds in the freezer right now.
Definitely a Cincinnati thing.
I have a pound in the freezer from my last trip to Cincinnati. Apparently I can have it shipped to Atlanta by Gliers.
One nice thing about Kroger being a Cincinnati-based grocery chain is that they carry Skyline in pretty much every Kroger store that I’ve been to in Atlanta. I’d be interested in finding out how much of it they actually sell, but it’s nice that I can get some whenever I want.
Man do I miss cheese coneys.
Yea, it’s a Cincy thing, for sure. Buying the Skyline very often in the grocery will bankrupt you. I can’t believe how expensive it is. I’ve developed my own recipe which I cannot discern from the “real Skyline”. So I’ve taken to making a batch of that for the freezer from time to time.
Country ham. And if it’s paired with homemade red-eye gravy (as opposed to what is called ‘red eye gravy’ at most restaurants) and biscuits then there is no debate.
But if forced to choose between the inferior options of bacon or sausage, I’d have to go with (some) bacon. We live near the producers of Benton’s bacon, and there’s a reason chefs all across the country serve it by name.
Bacon is always bacon. Poor quality bacon is because of the producer, not the design.
Sausage could be many things. Unfortunately, breakfast sausage is among the worst of all sausages. There’s so much better out there.
So, for breakfast, bacon.
Scrapple.
TRUTH.
I hope Andrew’s dog uses this in his campaign: snauseges [sp?]
Neither. Especially in the confines of breakfast. I hate the smell of bacon; it makes me ill. I’m biased because both destroy my stomach, however. I don’t really eat pork.
If it’s “chicken apple sausage or bacon,” have to go with the sausage.
Bacon.
Always Bacon.
Bacon should be its own food group.
Yuck. I’m vegetarian, but even 15 years ago when I still ate meat, bacon was a mouthful of gristle.
These days, this is more my speed.
http://fieldroast.com/product/field-roast-sausages/
I know people who are vegetarians, except for eating bacon. I figure that’s still better than most of us manage, so whatever works.
Sausage, hands down. There are infinite varieties of sausage, bacon by it’s very nature is severely limited, they’re not even in the same category. And btw folks – there are healthy-ish alternatives. You can even get low fat, poultry based chorizo.
Though shitty fast food bacon is better than shitty fast food sausage.
According to google, the phrase “like bringing bacon to a sausage party” has yet to gain serious traction. But at least “we” came up with it first:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22bacon+to+a+sausage+party%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&am
p;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Boo, as somebody who lives close to Philadelphia, you know the correct answer is scrapple. And don’t nobody ask what’s in it. You don’t wanna know.
Trick question. Not serious.
Bacon! But in moderation.
For special occasions maybe eggs, bacon, sausage and spam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
Ugh. Neither one.
Bacon.
Unless you making a nativity scene. Then you need both. I saw one yesterday on the innerwebs made out of both and it seemed to work.
Sorry no leaky
Neither, too much animal fat and salt.
Bacon, cut into 2 inch lengths, put onto grate with Major’s chutney drizzled on top and baked in a slow oven. Can’t beat it.
If it’s between any kind of sausage and any kind of bacon, I’d go sausage, assuming it’s a desert island type scenario…only ever sausage or bacaon again.
You can do a hell of a lot with sausage.
When did that become a dilemma?
I thought Pennsylvanians were addicted to souse. Scrapple when you are expecting company.
For breakfast: bacon.
On pizza: sausage.
Exceptions to both rules are permissible.
Neither! I’m sick of paying for your healthcare – you moochers!