{"id":17449,"date":"2018-01-09T10:46:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T16:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=17449"},"modified":"2018-01-09T10:46:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T16:46:42","slug":"winstons-irish-bacon-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=17449","title":{"rendered":"Winstons Irish Bacon Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Winstons<\/a>When you request bacon in the US, you know what you are going to get. Smoked\/cured thin slices of pork belly, with streaks of fat parallel to streaks of delicious meat.<\/p>\n

Unless you request “Canadian Bacon” which is neither Canadian nor bacon, but very lean sliced pork loin,\u00a0 cured and smoked. Outside of the US, “American style” bacon is often referred to as “streaky bacon.”<\/p>\n

Not so in other parts of the world, where you can be faced with a number of choices.\u00a0 In the UK and other remnants of the Empire, where you will most often be served what is referred to in the US and Canada as “back bacon,” thin slices of smoked (or not) pork cut from both the loin and a small bit from the belly.\u00a0 It is cut from the same part of the hog as pork chops.<\/p>\n

Order a “full breakfast” in England, and it will come with a couple slices of back bacon, sausage, eggs, baked beans, mushrooms, and toast. Maybe a grilled tomato. Depends on what part of the country you are in.<\/p>\n

All this to say, in my recent visit to the mecca of foodie groceries, Jungle Jims<\/a>, there are many choices of bacon to put in your cart, including a number of selections not made from pork. (My father was a habitual beef bacon consumer. It’s very lean, pretty chewy, but very tasty).<\/p>\n

I picked up a pack\u00a0of “Winston’s Irish Bacon,” which, to my surprise, is made here in Chicago. I’ve never seen it before, but apparently, Winston’s is a fairly old company specializing in Irish foods, they are wholesale processors, but also have a couple of markets and a restaurant.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, Winstons bacon is delish.\u00a0 I’m eager to track down some of their sausages and whatever else they got. Their factory\/store is on the far south side of Chicago, but probably worth a drive. I’m a sucker for new sausage suppliers!<\/p>\n

In the end, quality bacon at my house nearly always leads to a gooey fried egg sammich. Today was no exception!<\/p>\n

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In the pan, fried for 2 minutes a side<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My fried egg <\/strong>sammich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Chicago factory and retail outlet<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Winstons Irish Bacon Review<\/p>\n

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When you request bacon in the US, you know what you are going to get. Smoked\/cured thin slices of pork belly, with streaks of fat parallel to streaks of delicious meat. Unless you request “Canadian Bacon” which is neither Canadian nor bacon, but very lean sliced pork loin,\u00a0 cured and smoked. Outside of the US,… Continue reading Winstons Irish Bacon Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11,14,16,25],"tags":[541,711,3105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}