“Meat candy” does not sound very enticing, at least not to me.
Gross. We have to get over this ‘convenience’ packaging of stupid food items in plastic. Just like the peeled fruit in plastic wrap, this is straight up harmful.
Sure, if by “get over” you mean support legislation to heavily regulate the use of plastic packaging. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter what we do, as long as it’s more cost effective to continue to use plastic, companies will.
That’s exactly what I mean. The problem obviously won’t solve itself, enforcement will be required.
Hear hear!
Hold on, peeled fruit in plastic? Nobody would be that stup…
Ohhh sorry, yeah
As you were
Oof ouch owie my planet.
Japan is the worst for this. They are obsessed with individually wrapping everything. You want to buy a box of cookies? Plastic packaging for the whole thing. Plastic tray that helps separate and display each individual cookie, so less than 50% of the space is actually used… And each cookie has its own plastic packaging.
I didn’t go and buy M&Ms but I wouldn’t be surprised if each one was in its own sealed plastic.
Quite a few east Asian countries unfortunately. The Asian grocery store down the street is probably 50% plastic wrap by weight. .
On an American note, I recall buying compostable Keurig pods in bulk from a company that advertised how comparing is good for the environment. I had previously bought them in 12 pod batches which came in one resealable plastic bag. I received a box of 72 individually plastic wrapped pods. I emailed them to check to see if maybe those were made off industrially compostable plastic. Nope.
Also looking at my kids’ string cheese being wrapped and then individually wrapped makes me cringe. I have to find another solution for that.
I guess that last part would depend on how picky your kids are.
https://nourishingjoy.com/homemade-string-cheese/
Personally, I’d be like “fuck that, mom. I’m just not eating lunch today.” Except without the “fuck” part.
Unfortunately the cheese inside the plastic wrap is going to be far worse for the environment than the couple grams of plastic surrounding it. The bigger zero-waste win would be to get them hooked on something plant based instead.
Meat Candy would be a sweet strip club name.
…fuck it…I’m in
This shit is as ridiculous as those small potatoes that are plastic wrapped for you to microwave at home. What a waste of goddamn plastic.
Fuck this.
You might could even post this in Mildly Infuriating as all that packaging is just gonna go in a dump somewhere or end up in the ocean.
Dumb idea…start mailing all the garbage back to the companies that produce it. Attention of the CEO. I’d love to see thousands upon thousands of packages flood companies with the garbage they make.
But then you end up making more garbage by using packaging to mail the packaging.
To all who are offended by this new addition to the world of jerky offerings:
If you are repulsed by the packaging: Needless waste, totally agree, I’m right there with you.
If you are repulsed by the contents: More for me.
Put like at least 5 of them in a bag that is appropriately sized and appropriately priced and I’m all over this shit. Until then, this is the most worthless addition to the world of jerky I have seen and as a jerky lover I take personal offence. Then again, I get offended by lots of piss-poor jerky products.
Fun fact: the reason mummified Egyptian remains are so rare is because eating mummy legit used to be a practice in traditional medicine.
Didn’t they also used to make paint out of them? ‘Mummy Brown’ was a popular thing or smthn.
Yes! I believe it was actually called Mummy Brown! Watched a video about it on YouTube I think within the last year, I think the Smithsonian or someone still has an archived sample of the pigment.
Put like at least 5 of them in a bag that is appropriately sized and appropriately priced and I’m all over this shit.
There are TWO of us now!
But yeah, I do love some good jerky. I used to make it, it’s fun to do as long as you carefully adhere to food safety rules. Anymore it’s a very limited thing for me for health reasons but a well-made bit of jerky is an awesome thing.
I haven’t tried this bacon yet, but if it’s a bacon/brown sugar thing I likely will, the sum being greater than the parts. But the bacon premise is iffy, depending on whether they are cooking this and/or how much fat they’re leaving on it, because you’re eating it room temp. Room temp bacon grease, while still delicious in flavor, is still just a lump of grainy lukewarm grease in the mouth if there’s too much of it.
Could be great, could be ass. I guess we’ll see.
I actually just found bacon jerky in the convenience store the other day. Like 15 pieces in a bag but I think it was something like $10. It was ok, definitely what I expected but nothing more. 340 calories for the whole bag. Didn’t bother checking the other nutrional stuff. 6.5/10.
How many Americans would eat all 5 in one sitting, though? If you put 5 in one pouch, maybe you should paper-wrap each slice to slow people down. Or at least put a note on the label :
110 calories per slice
550 CALORIES IN PACKAGE.
Or would that just normalize the concept of eating it all?
I actually found a thing of bacon jerky in the convenience store I normally stop at for some Jack’s Links. I think the bag was like $10, but it was only 340 calories. Bought it out of curiosity, downed the whole thing and then fell asleep. It was pretty decent.
As I stated in another comment, I didn’t bother to check the nutritional information and didn’t really care at the time. I think it was Jack Link’s brand or similar, so you can look it up yourself, I might snatch the bag out of my office trash bin and check later, probably high in sodium and sugars or something.
Are you familiar with this (very small) chain? We didn’t buy anything- none of us loved jerky enough to pay what they were asking for- but it was tempting. Kangaroo jerky? Camel jerky? Snapping turtle jerky? Very tempting.
Holy mother of meat squidman, this is the first I’ve heard of them but their selection looks cursive fine. I’ll have to grab some and report back. Thanks for sharing!
Finally a sensible opinion. I for one am making a weekend project out of making me a big ass batch of bacon jerky.
$25.99 + shipping for a box of 12 from their website.
“snack bacon” is $3 from Dunkin Donuts and is the same sugar crusted bacon
Looks like dog treats.
I never like when displays like this don’t have a price anywhere. I bet that single slice of bacon costs almost as much as a whole big package of bacon from a grocery store.
As for calling it meat candy: Sounds good to me. You ever have candied ham? Shit’s delicious. 🤤
We deserve everything that’s coming for us this century
Idk, I’d love to get my mouth around a builder’s meat candy
Should be posted in midly infuriating.
This is bacon abuse. Respect the bacon.
It’s ok guys, it’s BPA free.
And BnL approved.
