Bacon is meat candy.

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Originally Posted by Snowflake

I love bacon, I love Mexican food. That is the problem, there is no bacon in mexican food. Not even carnitas, lots of pig in Mexican food, but still no bacon.

This is not entirely true - if you count salchichas. And I do.

I bought, at my local Jon's mkt last night, smoked pork bellies, otk as Russian style bacon. I was looking for uncured pork bellies, but I took what was available. I sliced me a big fat slice and put it in the skillet, I took some cubes and baked them in the oven. The skillet slice was the thickest piece of bacon you ever saw, and pretty delicious. The baked cubes I paired with some homemade dippin' sauces - apricot soy, blackberry, bbq. I found out where "pork rinds" come from, that's the bit that needs to be trimmed off, but I didn't. Other than that, it was an interesting experiment, and I'm all the more interested in finding unsmoked pork bellies. This is a food with excellent win potential!