The price of bacon

[MillCreek]

We stopped by Safeway this morning to pick up some lamb on our way home from church.  I happened to go buy the bacon case on my way to get cheese.  Holy moly, what is happening to the price of bacon?  Oscar Meyer thick cut at $ 7.99 per pound?  The Safeway house brand thick cut at $ 5.99 per pound.  I am going to start keeping an eye out for coupons and stocking up the freezer when it goes on sale.

[Fly320s]

Crude prices are way up.

[Azrael256]

I was always $7.99/lb.  You're remembering it incorrectly.  There is no inflation, please move along.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

Proof that Obama is a Muslim. 

[Tuco]

Make more pigs!

[Ben]

Corn is up well over 100% in the last 12 months. Thank ethanol and alternative energy for the trickle-down effect. Growing food in commercial quantities as an energy product is always a dumb idea.

[TommyGunn]

 

Corn for fuel. 
Suspending offshore drilling ....


We're turning into a nation of stoopid faster than greased lightning.

   

[zxcvbob]

I buy the 3# boxes of bacon ends and pieces -- generally about $5 a box.  It's a little harder to fry, but it tastes the same.

(maybe I shouldn't have posted the secret...)

[charby]

Corn is up well over 100% in the last 12 months. Thank ethanol and alternative energy for the trickle-down effect. Growing food in commercial quantities as an energy product is always a dumb idea.

That and actual pork numbers are down, so the number of pork bellies is in low inventory.

Normal pork cuts are cheap right now. Bacon and Ribs are $$ I paid $3.99 a lb yesterday (on sale) for baby back ribs, these used to $2.99 regular price.

[Doggy Daddy]

I happened to go buy the bacon case on my way to get cheese.

And how long does a whole bacon case last you?   

DD

[Doggy Daddy]

I was always $7.99/lb.

Good to know the price of long pork is holding steady.   

DD

[Gowen]

Proof that Obama is a Muslim. 

thread win!!

Popularity contest, bacon wins over head cheese hands down.



What that means, I don't even know myself.

[seeker_two]

Crude prices are way up.

Then we need to drill for more bacon....

[Sindawe]

We have PLENTY of bacon, no need to drill for more.

I have great trust that the fine folk in Berlin Washinton will not let the Mark Dollar collapse.

[French G.]

We need to start another swine flu scare over the internetts. Nevermind you can't catch it from eating pork, prices were in the crapper the last time around on that.

[RoadKingLarry]

I grow my own bacon.

[mtnbkr]

Hog jowl.  As good or better than bacon and cheaper.

Chris

[stevelyn]

I buy the 3# boxes of bacon ends and pieces -- generally about $5 a box.  It's a little harder to fry, but it tastes the same.

(maybe I shouldn't have posted the secret...)

I love the ends and pieces and slab.

[French G.]

And then one day I discovered this. http://www.ozarkmountainsmokehouse.com/2-Half-Pound-Packages-of-Arkansas-Bacon/productinfo/19910/ Arkansas Bacon.

[HankB]

. . .  Growing food in commercial quantities as an energy product is always a dumb idea.

Not if you're an executive or major stockholder for Archer-Daniels Midland or some other major producer of fuel ethanol - they paid good money to select congresscritters for the Congressional mandates that gasoline be diluted with ethanol; combine that with Federal ethanol subsidies & grants, and they got a pretty good return on their investment, I suspect.