The mention of Skate Ayrshire triggered my salivary glands. Unfortunately I am an American living in the U.S. and only have access to streaky bacon. I would love to go to a competition where all the prizes were really good bacon.
Oh, that sounds like a dream come true!
Get me to that competition!!!
Is Ayrshire bacon a thing? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that! When ever I was in Ayr it was for the horse racing!
I had to look it up too, and apparently so.
Funnily enough, I am from a town whose main claim to fame is it's bacon factory (OK, so it makes all sorts of pork products, and sausages are it's
most famous product, but it is referred to as "the bacon factory")
I was in Ayr once, but I was very young (something like 4 or 5) and so can't remember much. In fact, the only thing I can remember is that sometime after the crossing, I saw public toilets labelled "laddies" and "lassies".
You can get good back bacon all over the UK, Paul (or "rashers" as they're called in Ireland). But I didn't know it was a speciality in Ayrshire? I only buy British though, as Danish pigs (they are known for bacon too) are kept in horrendous conditions. :sad21:
I don't eat Danish bacon either, but that is more to do with availability - nearly all the meat products you get in Northern Ireland originate either here or Down South. But, thank you for letting us know about the conditions of the Danish pigs. I'll remember that for future.
Funny story: my Dad just cannot get it into his head that the packaging for bacon is colour coded (red for smoked, and blue for unsmoked). And he keeps landing home from the shopping with red packet bacon, when nobody in the house likes smoked bacon.
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