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Environment of deceptive packaging
Nov 13th, 2022 at 5:29am
 
There are three types of bacon rasher:
(1) back (from the loin, the leanest and most expensive),
(2) streaky (from the belly, it's the fattiest and often tastiest cut) and
(3) middle (back and streaky bacon in one cut).

However - when just quickly seeing a packet of bacon in the supermarket -
it is easy to be deceived by what you see.
Here is an example of one I bought last week.
At first glance it looks like there's a nice lot of bacon meat in there
but they have offset the rashers which gives a first appearance of
a lot more meat rather than fat:


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When getting it home and checking it out each rasher is more fat than meat.
Streaky bacon is more fatty but it's not apparent from first glance.

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OK - at first I thought - is this unusual ? - but then when checking some websites
I found they all offset the rashers which gives the appearance of more meat:

https://www.vicsmeat.com.au/products/streaky-bacon-rare-breed-kurobuta-berkshire...

https://www.hillsidequalitybutcher.com.au/products/middle-bacon-rashers
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Reply #1 - Nov 13th, 2022 at 6:15am
 
To drive my point home -
by offsetting in the same way -
if I re-arrange the bacon but with the fat showing in the
same way as they have shown it it appears to have more fat:


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Reply #2 - Nov 13th, 2022 at 12:26pm
 
bump - did anyone else notice the above?
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Reply #3 - Nov 14th, 2022 at 3:20pm
 
This was a better deal on bacon today.
Only $4.50 for a packet at Coles.
The trick is turn the packet upside down to
get a good look at what you're buying -
then they can't get away with that offset trick:

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and here:
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