Source... Long story short. Load of bacon spilled in Ill (?), no one hurt. The bacon will be discarded. If that's true, it's a shame. It happened at 4pm and was still being cleaned at 9pm. If it was plain pork, of course you wouldn't want it. But, bacon is salt cured and would be fine even overnight. Why didn't they let people take it? The accident didn't block the highway, so you know people were driving by. Would it have caused a jam? I don't understand, I guess. I hate waste. It's all in boxes and packed. That would be worth following to the landfill if the county allows that. You could can or freeze it. What do you think? Would you eat it? There are so many people who need food. Shelters and such. Maybe those places have insurance regulations, but, I don't. I would have loved a box of it.
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My dogs have volunteered to go down there to help clean up the mess. They'll have that shit disposed of in about 15 minutes.
BLT's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG! & to think I am making them for supper and have to go buy slab bacon so it's nice and thick. What a waste. They could send that to prisons or something. Or food banks. I am sure it is fine. That sucks. Bacon is in a food group all by itself. YUM!
rox
Send some our way. Ridiculous! That could have gone to all the animal shelters. We are such a bloody wasteful country.
Good. I'm not the only one who'd take it. I feel better now.
To be honest, I bet some of the clean-up crew helped themselves. You know they did. Men cannot live w/o bacon, and to waste all that bacon? U kiddin' me? they were calling their friends and telling them all about it and snagging boxes left and right. *This is what I hope happened. Bacon is so expensive, a luxury. I doubt it all went to waste. They could even render it at a dog food plant and use it up. I really doubt it all wasted. Lets hope not.
rox
We are a wasteful country. I can't imagine how many people/animals that could feed. Disgusting. I understand the health risk in terms of retailing it but, damn, food banks, shelters, etc... would not turn their nose up to that if they are worth 2 cents. Packaged, unopened, a couple of hours on the freeway, I'm sure we all eat a lot worse when buying "fresh meat and vegetables" and such at the grocery store, but then, it's not documented the same way.
On a local talk show recently, the discussion was that Americans, on an average, waste 40% of all the food bought. That seems like an awfully high number. I don't think I waste that much. Being alone, I will freeze anything extra and eat it later instead of wasting or even having to cook again. Meat is too damn expensive to waste.
Does this have anything to do with international bacon day?
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