UK-US Trade Deal Thread

[laklak]

We've got a couple of them in town, and the grocery store has a large British section. I used to supply back bacon for one until I got out of the bacon biz.

[pErvinalia]

First rule of bacon biz: Don't get out of the bacon biz.

[Hermit]

Dear God, you'll end up with curved bananas!

There's a huge market for that. Unfortunately all Australian bananas grow straight as a bean stalk. It does have a bright side. Soaks up the pool of the unemployed. There are many hundred thousand banana benders up in Queensland.

[Svartalf]

your bananas grow straight? , and I was wondering why the French government had lobbied the EU so that we'd not import any bananas without a certain curvature (yeah, we grow plenty curved bananas in the Caribbeans and in Guyana)

[Forty Two]

You wont find Dutch ex-pat stores.

The Dutch Epicure Shop
491 Bantam Rd
Litchfield, Connecticut
https://www.dutchepicure.com/dutch-products/

[Forty Two]

We've got a couple of them in town, and the grocery store has a large British section. I used to supply back bacon for one until I got out of the bacon biz.

If there's a market for it, you can find it in the US. Although, the stuff is always worse here than elsewhere, naturally. It's because grocers here sell stuff as a way to make more money than they spend operating the business. It's not like in civilized countries, where they sell stuff out of pure, unadulterated altruism.

[laklak]

I got out of the business because of profit margins, they weren't enough for my rapacious, capitalist nature. I just wasn't doing enough volume to make it worthwhile, and in order to increase volume I'd have to be USDA registered and inspected and a whole bunch of Gummint nonsense that was prohibitively expensive. It's almost like the deck is stacked against the little guy, you know? Now bacon is expensive as fuck, I could be making a killing because nobody, and I mean NOBODY, sells real back bacon here. It's all belly bacon, "streaky" to you Brits, or "Canadian Bacon", which should be from the tenderloin but is generally "mechanically separated" and then mixed all up and formed into a round slice. More Spamish than baconish. Not that there's anything wrong with Spam, but call it Spam, not bacon. Or Spam, spam, spam, sausage, spam, bacon, spam, and spam.

Which reminds me, there's a can of Spam sitting in the cupboard, a leftover from Hurricane Irma preparations. I actually fancy a Spam sandwich.

[Rum]

Dry cure bacon has become very popular here. It is more expensive but people are not stupid (so much) when money is involved and paying for water in standRd bacon is just a joke.

[Scot Dutchy]

We dont have British styled bacon. Ours is very thin. I prefer it to the thick British slices.
This is what I use. It is organic and smoked:

[laklak]

I used a wet cure (Wiltshire cure), but didn't add additional water. Big manufacturers inject water and salt into the meat to add weight. I've done several dry cures on pork belly, came out really nice but it's more of a pain then wet curing.

[Brian Peacock]

Easily beaten here. Amazon is a favourite with ex-pats who cant think any further. The type that went to the English grocery store, which has now shut down (lack of customers) to buy English cornflakes; "cant eat the German ones can we".

Bloody Anglo-Saxon mindsets...

I am not joking. The shop was called "Thomas Green's"



They had to have ENGLISH tomato sauce. Heinz has a factory here but they had to have ENGLISH Heinz. Pathetic. The same with tea and even coffee and cheese. A land of coffee and cheese nope they had to have ENGLISH.

I might be wrong about this, but I'm getting the impression you don't like the ENGLISH very much. We have an Italian and a Polish shop in my area - they both do a good run in foodstuffs with funny writing as well as competitive displays of cured meats. 20 minutes away is an Asian supermarket that's always half full of, wait for it, Asians. Your screed has little to do with people maintaining food traditions and/or seeking the comforts of familiarity and everything to do with holding a whole nation responsible for something that happened to you long ago. Get it fixed man, for all our sakes.

[Scot Dutchy]

Look the English wanted English cornflakes and English tea. Robinson's jam and other English made stuff. It is all available made here but no it had to be English made. The Poles and Asians have very different food only available in their countries. Nothing but nothing that you can get in Britain cant be bought in Dutch supermarket only it is not made in England.

[Brian Peacock]

“immersing poultry meat in chlorine dioxide solution of the strength used in the United States reduces prevalence of salmonella from 14% in controls to 2%. EU chicken samples typically have 15-20% salmonella.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/ ... hicken.pdf "European opposition to imports of chlorinated chicken has been spearheaded by Germany, where the products are subjected to ridicule, often based on an unscientific apprehension."

¿Jeez, how much raw chicken are you guys eating?

[Brian Peacock]

Look the English wanted English cornflakes and English tea. Robinson's jam and other English made stuff. It is all available made here but no it had to be English made. The Poles and Asians have very different food only available in their countries. Nothing but nothing that you can get in Britain cant be bought in Dutch supermarket only it is not made in England.

Wooosh!

[pErvinalia]

Look the English wanted English cornflakes and English tea. Robinson's jam and other English made stuff. It is all available made here but no it had to be English made.

Who gives a shit?