“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!
Rabble rabble rabble!
Hold on, peeled fruit in plastic? Nobody would be that stup…
Ohhh sorry, yeah
As you were
Nobody would be that stup…
I get the joke but it’s mostly people without the hand strength or dexterity to peel the fruit that get them.
At least that’s the only people ive ever seen or heard of getting them. Most people who willingly eat fresh fruit also like to peel it themselves for that freshness
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.
You’re not kidding. I went to a local grocery store when I stayed in japan and it was the same with a lot of vegetables and fruits too. My local Korean market in the US also has a lot of that.
it was the same with a lot of vegetables and fruits too
This blew my fucking mind. Went to a BIG ASS Don Quixote (for anyone not familiar with Japan: it’s like a Walmart crossed with the dollar store crossed with a shady store run in a tourist trap where there’s 1.5 ft of walking space between crap) and they had a produce section on par with my California Walmart, but EVERYTHING was wrapped in plastic. Individual apples? Individual small bunches (like 5-7) of grapes? Carrots? individually wrapped plastic bags. A few of the items came in larger packs wrapped together, but none were anywhere near a “family size” you’d see here in the US, and even that often feels like too much plastic being used.
Getting a box of pocky or hello panda also made me feel so goddamn wasteful.
And I know it’s not Japanese but KINDER is doing this shit with their Joy bars and similar now and it’s not ok
For anyone not aware, you’re 100 percent spot on with your description. I went to like 3 of them including the absolutely massive ones and it’s sorta surreal.
Although they shouldn’t use that much plastic we also gotta keep in kind that they separate ALL of their trash and recycle more or less all of it as well. I stayed at an air bnb and like 90 percent of the plastic we ended up using was recyclable and chucked in the proper bins.
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.
Do yourself a favor and get a cheap espresso maker and just fill the entire cup and skip the plastic pods
Just use normal coffee or what I do is a small scoop of espresso then top it up with coffee. Makes a better brew than the shitty pods and no micro plastics
Make your own cheese strings. Get some decent quality mozzarella find the “grains” then cut them in line with em. And just reuse a freezer bag. It tastes better and your not killing the enviorment
The compostable pods are not plastic…or at least not fossil fuel based plastic. The pod itself along with the grounds goes right into yard waste. The pods that I do buy surprisingly come to about the same price I would pay for beans. My parents did give me a coffee pot but that is more for when I have guests. I’m the only one in the house that drinks coffee and it’s generally only two cups a day.
I’ll look into making my own cheese strings. Seems like it might be pretty simple.
Technically the pods are compostable but that needs to be heated to break down so if you live in a large city that does industrial composting it should be ok, but still probably produces micro/nano plastics. Where I live it’s all naturally done.
Same thing is said about the PLA that I use in my 3d printer but has been shown that stuff don’t break down naturally as ya would think
Good mozzarella is kinda squishy unlike the crappy bars that are sold beside cheddar/marbled bricks
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.
Going to meet Candy at Meat Candy
…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.
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?
If I cook a pack of bacon there is never any left, even when they were 500g and not this pathetic 375g where they probably include the packing in the weight
Also am Canadian
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.
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.
$25.99 + shipping for a box of 12 from their website.
What a terrible price, why the fuck do people buy this shit and how is it even legal?
Gotta be 2x the weight in plastic vs bacon
Toxic masculinity is one hell of an economic driver
Be a man and cook your bacon shirtless!
Let’s work against em!
“snack bacon” is $3 from Dunkin Donuts and is the same sugar crusted bacon
We deserve everything that’s coming for us this century
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. 🤤
Gotta try candied bacon
Honestly though: How can covering food in liquid sugar result in something worse-tasting than the un-sugared food? :p
Looks like dog treats.
Idk, I’d love to get my mouth around a builder’s meat candy
Should be posted in midly infuriating.
I guess it’s a great marketing gimmick to hook people who have more money than sense lol I’m pretty sure buying a pound of bacon at the store would use a lot less plastic and cost much less though
These seem flavored, hence ‘candy’
Somehow that makes it seem even less worth getting lol
Next time you fry up some bacon, put just a little bit of brown sugar on it. Doesn’t take much. I rarely make it because I wouldn’t be able to control myself if I didn’t limit it to special occasions.
I have a friend who makes sweetened bacon. It is delicious, but that’s the only way I’d eat it. Not this garbage.
Yeah homemade candied bacon is amazing.
Ate honey with beef bacon before and it was pretty good
The bacon at the store means you need to buy the whole pack, cook it yourself, clean up. This is a precooked on the go snack like beef jerky.
Paying a premium per slice for the convenience of the snack.
Yeah I have no idea why people are missing this part. They are ok with beef jerky being sold as an on the go snack, but not this? It’s the same thing.
Yes, I get it. The plastic is wasteful…but it’s wasteful for any other single serving snack item you’re buying anyway. I’m not sure of a good solution to the problem…but having an issue with this but not literally every other single serving snack food is just beyond confusing to me.
There are plenty of more convenient snacks that are much less ridiculous
I don’t see how this is much more ridiculous than peperoni sticks or beef jerky
I see it ridiculous when compared to products like Tactical Bacon or the Jack’s Links bacon jerky which are probably cheaper (though there’s no price on these shown so that’s just a guess) and have more than 1 slice of bacon in the package. They are also ready to eat straight from the can or bag.
Edit: a 12 pack of these individual things is $26. You get about that much in a single bag of Jack Links for $3. Tactical Bacon no longer is sold, so it’s expensive AF on ebay now. 😵💫
My grocery store sells 2kg packs of fully cooked bacon
It’s ok guys, it’s BPA free.
And BnL approved.
