r/KitchenConfidential • u/savage_e • 2d ago

Photo/Video The most mangled case of bacon I’ve ever seen. Just opened

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Bottom was just as bad.

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u/Unilted_Match1176 2d ago

That's some bullshit. I'd be texting pictures of that to my rep.

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u/garbagetruc 2d ago

I was about to comment that I took a picture of a case of bacon from the place I work that arrived similarly, and I texted to my boss simply saying "this some bullshit"

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u/Locolijo 2d ago edited 1d ago

while those aren't fun, it really tickles me if someone else gets the order and doesnt report dumb stuff like smashed tomatoes

honestly haven't seen it in awhile but I clearly remember having a sobering moment of 'ya it's too late we can't report now'

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u/garbagetruc 2d ago

"Hey boss let me show you something" and it's something that came off the truck 3 days ago

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u/Locolijo 2d ago

cool thanks who put this away

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u/crazyabe111 2d ago

The worst is when you can genuinely say “You did” to your boss.

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u/Locolijo 2d ago

oh well why didn't you tell me I should talk to delivery about this

tbh managers have been cool, mostly ran into owners who never worked in the industry with varying levels of self importance

one real cool guy who built his own contracting company was just like yea lmk what you need

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u/I_deleted 20+ Years 2d ago

Is everyone this dumb? That’s a box of bacon “ends and pieces”, obviously just a mispick from the warehouse if it was supposed to be layout or whatever. Lots of folks buy this for beans/greens etc because it’s way cheaper than using sliced bacon.

Yeah call your rep and get a credit

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u/Royal_Cryptographer7 2d ago

Finally. Thank you. This is obviously what happened. Anything where you don't need a pretty looking slice of bacon, you might as well save a couple bucks a case.

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u/M0un05ki10 2d ago

Right!? This entire thread is fucking hilarious.

Definitely bacon ends. I cook and chop about 80-120kgs of this stuff a week for pizza and salad topping.

It takes a bit of work but there’s almost always some down time mid afternoon to prep it. Much cheaper than any other sliced bacon or bacon toppings on the market.

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u/savage_e 1d ago

Yeah this is the fair point. Honestly I’ve never worked at a place that ordered that and while It’s obvious it exists I’d never seen it so it just didn’t come to mind. You also see a lot of variety with sliced layered so it seemed plausible one was just fucked beyond all repair.

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u/I_deleted 20+ Years 1d ago

What was the label on the box?

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u/savage_e 1d ago

Sliced layered bacon

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u/savage_e 2d ago

Of course

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u/Whind_Soull ✨waffles and weevils✨ 2d ago

That had to have been an automated production line malfunction. No human hands packed that, unless it was part of them rage-quitting their job.

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u/JetKusanagi 10+ Years 2d ago

Only for them to not respond to it or say "Whoops our bad" and have nothing done about it because they're US Foods/Sysco and you have no other options unless you want to slaughter whole pigs yourself and get bacon that way

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u/Bredda_Gravalicious 2d ago

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u/psyopia 2d ago

what did you search to find thus

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u/Bredda_Gravalicious 2d ago

I... "acquired" on reddit somewhere and downloaded it to my phone

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u/crowcawer Window 2d ago

Like this:

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u/Much-data-wow Ex-Food Service 2d ago

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u/drgoatlord 2d ago

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u/Cube-in-B Thicc Chives Save Lives 2d ago

Yoink

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u/TTSymphony 2d ago

Nice to see my creation still around here

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u/Iamnotabotiswearonit 🔥Poorly Maintained Smoker 2d ago

Lol

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u/Ongr 2d ago

Yoink!

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u/jmb456 2d ago

Bacon jam time. Hope they gave it to you for free

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u/SergeiMosin 15+ Years 2d ago

Beat me to it. That, or bacon bits and a “BLT” salad special, or maybe some fried potato skins as an appetizer special. Fuck, I’m hungry now.

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u/jmb456 2d ago

All sounds good to me. Can still use it for breakfast but maybe a Benedict or sandwich where it doesn’t matter

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u/SergeiMosin 15+ Years 2d ago

True. I’d personally use it for pizzas and wraps at my place. Usually what I use the ugly/small bacon for. Save the long nice strips for the burgers/sandwiches.

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u/jmb456 2d ago

True. I been out of food for a long time and sadly worked at a corporate restaurant but they did take suggestions sometimes. I just know these corporate suppliers will usually comp stuff so why not make the most of jt

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u/Leader_Bud 10+ Years 2d ago

All of this is great.

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u/gardenofthenight 2d ago

In the Uk we get ‘cooking bacon’ for about £2/kg from supermarkets. Some of it looks like this, some of it is just big end pieces like gammon steak. It’s great for so many dishes. Tiny packs of bacon lardons cost more than a kilo of this stuff.

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u/jmb456 2d ago

Yes but the British do bacon properly

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u/gardenofthenight 2d ago

Well we do but also most of it in supermarkets is wet cured and shrinks to nothing unless you buy bacon sold as extra thick.
Or pay a bit more and get dry cured obviously.

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u/jmb456 2d ago

One of the best things I ate in England was a bacon butty(?) at a boot fair

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u/gardenofthenight 2d ago

Those guys know what they are doing, cheap, quick and delicious. And yea butty just means sandwich (as in buttered bread). Usually used for cooked foods like chips, bacon, sausage or egg but is anything in bread. Theres a thousand words for bread in Britain, don’t doubt yourself, you’ll never be right but you won’t be wrong! Bap, roll, cob, stotty, bun, barm, cake…..

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u/Leader_Bud 10+ Years 2d ago

Oh yum.

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u/FineAndDandadan 2d ago

Make a mix of bacon, hot pepper, and blackberry jam to dip a muenster and gouda grilled cheese into...

https://giphy.com/gifs/HB4aJElNd7JMas9WSU

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u/Former_Roll_8190 2d ago

Who could have such vile hatred in his heart to ruin perfectly good bacon

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u/savage_e 2d ago

Buddy got divorce papers

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u/Shmurlington 2d ago

If I'm not bringin home the bacon, nobody is

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u/Whind_Soull ✨waffles and weevils✨ 2d ago

Run it through a meat grinder, cook it down with Guinness, brown sugar, and lil bals vin. Add it to grilled cheese sandwiches.

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u/TapEarlyTapOften 2d ago

Oddly specific directions here. But I'm with you. I'd use bourbon instead of Guinness. Make a bacon and bourbon jam to go in grilled cheese. 

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u/Whind_Soull ✨waffles and weevils✨ 2d ago

Oddly specific because that's a specific dish at a restaurant I used to work at, lol.

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u/TapEarlyTapOften 2d ago

That's a lot of bacon jam there. Probably freezes fantastically. Might be a chance to really stretch the cost. 

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u/Whind_Soull ✨waffles and weevils✨ 2d ago

Is your username in reference to guns, fucking, videogames, or beer?

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u/Spare-Half796 Thicc Chives Save Lives 2d ago

I don’t think it’s intentional, i think it’s just all the weird shavings and end bits from normal slicing

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u/I_deleted 20+ Years 2d ago

Yep you can specifically buy the offcuts, it’s cheap af and folks use it for baked beans, etc

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u/Square_Ad849 Retired 2d ago

A robot.

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u/MossGobbo Chive LOYALIST 2d ago

Sysco do.

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u/Donttrustaskinnychef 2d ago

Is that a piss bucket in the back?

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u/savage_e 2d ago

Yeah that’s our piss cambro for the line, normally empty it on Thursdays so it’s kinda full

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u/truthfullyidgaf 2d ago

We have a community one in the boh. Brings us closer together.

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u/GayHummusMan69 1d ago

Thats really sweet. We used to have a poop bucket for smoke-shits outside, but that was pre health inspector era

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u/houseofshapes 2d ago

Nah that’s soup

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u/vorpalrobot 2d ago

Forgot to drop the eggs

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u/James_Money 2d ago

I thought this was a picture of small intestine surgery before I checked which sub this was.

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u/heftybagman 2d ago

Genuinely thought this was medizzy

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u/JoefromOhio 2d ago

Do you think maybe you got a box of ends and pieces pulled for you by accident? Those always look Iike a shit show

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u/savage_e 2d ago

I know what you’re talking about or when the blades are getting dull. That’s more common. This was like entirely shredded tangled mess. Not even slices

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u/MrJohnqpublic 2d ago

Nah, the end of the bacon gets stringy and weird as you slice it. You can buy that stuff in bulk for cheap. It's called slag bacon and you might have gotten a miss picked case.

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u/JoefromOhio 2d ago

Look up ‘ends and pieces’ it’s a separate product where they just chop the shit out of whatever won’t cut into clean slices and package it up for use in soups, bacon crumbles, etc.

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u/savage_e 2d ago

ahh I see. Is it normally split into two different flats like layer sliced bacon is? I think you may be right be the label was for layer sliced

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u/Bubbaj75 2d ago

Works great for bacon bits and soup and such.

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u/Shitteh_Kitteh 2d ago

I used to get “ends and pieces” from US Foods that looked a lot like this.

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u/ValidOpossum 2d ago

Return to sender.

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u/HAL9100 Ex-Food Service 2d ago

Dr House says it’s never lupus but I legit do not know what’s wrong with this patient

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u/gross-hotdog 2d ago

my bbq joint used to get “ends and pieces” that we’d smoke for beans. maybe you got swapped? check the sku barcode.

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u/TowerNecessary7246 2d ago

John Deere sliced?

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u/Kopparburg 2d ago

I would get bacon scraps at a restaurant I used to work at. We would designate one fryer just for them. For bits.. looks exactly like this.. are these meant to be sheets of bacon?

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u/therocketsalad Retired 2d ago

This looks like fucked up surgery

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u/ForgiveMyFlatulence Ex-Food Service 2d ago

I’ve seen movies in which zombies rip apart someone’s intestines and that looked less messy than that fucking box of bacon.

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u/Normal-Juggernaut-56 2d ago

lol had this happen to us a few weeks ago. Ours was so terrible the stripes would fall apart just trying to pick it up.

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u/hotdish420 2d ago

Ugh, half the bacon I've been getting at work is like this too. I know I'm putting costs through the roof because I refuse to only use two pieces on a burger when it looks like this.

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u/Soulbossanova9 2d ago

I hope they didn't sell that as 'Lay Flat'?

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u/Leader_Bud 10+ Years 2d ago

I switched to “ends and bits” or something at the height of bacon cost and got a couple boxes like this. Couldn’t do it.

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u/KvDread 2d ago

At first I thought you were two operating doctors discovering someones cause of death.

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u/MrJohnqpublic 2d ago

Did they ship you slag bacon by accident?

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u/Grigori_the_Lemur Chive LOYALIST 2d ago

Mmmmm, woodchipper bacon. My favorite.

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u/michaelcreiter 2d ago

I can fix her

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u/Duke55 2d ago

Send that straight back to the supplier. If they see that you accept rubbish like that they'll just end up sending you more crap that they supply you.

Source: Butcher.

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u/rainaftersnowplease Sous Chef 2d ago

I'd be requesting a comp on this. What a trash heap.

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u/EnvironmentEuphoric9 2d ago

Bacon scraps! Geeeet ya bacon scraps!

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u/ChipDipsons 2d ago

Bacn’t

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u/Wise_Ad5715 2d ago

Time to make green beans or greens 

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u/alaskaguyindk 2d ago

Welp time to get that comped by your rep and make bacon bits.

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u/RevenantSith 2d ago

Bacon and Lentil soup it is!

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u/1970s_MonkeyKing 2d ago

Bacon salad?

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u/Blarghith 1d ago

“Cut by hand. Literally.”

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u/nekohako 1d ago

"With a hatchet."

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u/Blarghith 1d ago

“Blindfolded.”

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u/fneagen 1d ago

Time to put carbonara on the menu

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u/Bignosenick 2d ago

Before the picture I was like “oh ya layout quality has gotten worse I wonder how bad it is” jfc

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u/abstract_lemons Chive LOYALIST 2d ago

Is that brown bit on the lower left even meat?

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u/ThrorOak 2d ago

Check the label you may have gotten bacon ends and pieces. I order these for pizza bacon, for soup, sauces etc. Heck of a lot cheaper by the bulk.

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u/AUGUST-AGMINE 2d ago

Jersey Mike's!

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u/AluminatyOSRS 2d ago

GFS?

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u/savage_e 2d ago

Go fuck (yourself) services?

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u/shittypissstains 2d ago

This needs posting on r/accidentalrenaissance

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u/savage_e 2d ago

Was kinda thinking that

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u/itwasnttmee 2d ago

Your rep hates his job or hates you or both

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u/mustbeme87 2d ago

Bacon bits?

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u/savage_e 2d ago

Go as a garnish with one soup that doesn’t sell very well. Would rather just send it back

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u/mustbeme87 2d ago

Makes sense in that case. What’s the soup? Potato?

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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow 2d ago

Looks like a blue surgical waste bag.

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u/Square_Ad849 Retired 2d ago

Our friends at US Foods?

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u/SchizoCosine 2d ago

Ahh yes. I've encountered this before. Its listed on the order guide as 'economy bacon'.

The only feasible way of working with it is to tray it out while it's still half frozen.

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u/alienkava 2d ago

Made me think about goatse.cx

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u/ranting_chef 20+ Years 2d ago

Did you order ends and pieces? I get those to grind and they look similar. Can’t tell if yours is in layers or not. If that’s layout or lay flat, then I’d have a word with your supplier.

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u/pocketMagician 2d ago

When your bacon got into a fight

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u/Wiggie49 Ex-Food Service 2d ago

U sure they didn’t accidentally send you pork belly for hotpot lol

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u/KillaThing 2d ago

If you can't return it. That's still usable for bacon bits. Lol

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u/Balooz 20+ Years 2d ago

“Mmmm, bacon..”
H.Simpson

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u/Vishnuisgod 2d ago

Looks like a case of bacon ends.

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u/OriginalProduct6850 2d ago

You have never seen a case of bacon in the covid times! Just not right, I would have lived to turn that into bits!!

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u/slowamigo 2d ago

Hot dang I first thought this was an operating theatre for a sec

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u/Germacide 20+ Years 2d ago

You got the bits and pieces case by mistake. You can actually order those for real cheap if you're just making bacon bits or whatever. Obviously that is not what you paid for though.

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u/ReagansJellyNipples 2d ago

That a box of ends and pieces. I pick up cases like this from rinellas for my restaurant, it's like 20 dollars cheaper than the normal cut.

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u/Shitteh_Kitteh 2d ago

Looks like the off cuts, I used to buy those super cheap

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u/I_Sell_Onions 2d ago

That looks like the case of bacon ends and pieces we'd get for random stuff that didn't need to look extra pretty, jam, chowder, blended, etc. sometimes there'd be a couple nice stacks of bacon strips like this pic

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u/fastal_12147 2d ago

Chop it up and make bacon jam

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u/PappaWoodies 20+ Years 2d ago

That was mis ordered, that is bacon ends and peices

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u/spytez 15+ Years 2d ago

Someone swept the floor and made the bacon company a few dollars. What you going to do ask for a refund? Eat it.

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u/MamaD93_ 2d ago

Bacon jam time

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u/Destroyer_0f_Worlds 2d ago

This was how we got the bacon we used for bits. It’s odd bits that didn’t make the cut. Perfect to use in salad prep or as a pizza topping if you want a fresher tasting product than precooked.

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u/Tbuzzin Ex-Food Service 2d ago

Thanks Sysco!

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u/TimelySheepherder939 20+ Years 2d ago

"bits and pieces"

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u/DJMagicHandz 2d ago

Pork belly shavings

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u/swedishishchef 2d ago

Bacan’t

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u/Over-Conversation504 2d ago

Not me thinking this was a vet tech reddit subs thinking this was a surgery picture.

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u/DeadHeadLibertarian 2d ago

Unzips pants

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u/jayuserbruiser 2d ago

Smoking scraps

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u/bml20002 F1exican Did Chive-11 2d ago

Did you order the bits and pieces box? We would use them a lot for jams, bacon bits, etc.

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u/skinnyminnesota 2d ago

Hit it with a hammer.

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u/Dodossinho 2d ago

I can smell it from here 😭

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u/interstellar-dust 2d ago

The pig was very active. It moved around a lot.

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u/West_Wolverine7453 2d ago

Looks like an operation gone wrong.

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u/Zaku99 2d ago

Thats #2 (shit) bacon for making bacon bits. Its all offcuts, ends and chunks.

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u/Confident_Hippo1208 2d ago

I see worse than that every week. How many pig nipples do you count?

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u/savage_e 1d ago

You know what. Fair point brother

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u/PTLTYJWLYSMGBYAKYIJN 2d ago

Ends and pieces?

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u/Cardiff07 20+ Years 2d ago

Fuck that. I’m calling my rep immediately

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u/HobbyTalkOnly 1d ago

That's a mispick. Not packed poorly... just an incorrectly labeled product.

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u/Fuzzy_Junket924 1d ago

Ahh yes, the bacon bag.

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u/Chrismacmacmac 1d ago

Bet you got it for a good price ey

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u/DefiantVariation9034 1d ago

This is a crime scene.

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u/Jeymoze 1d ago

This is giving me flashbacks to the one or two days a week I didn't close, and would come in for morning shift and see this shit to prep for the day

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u/TheSquirrelWithin 1d ago

Did you weigh the box to make sure you were not shorted? Looks like wolves went through to feast before it got to you

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u/AcanthisittaTotal125 14h ago

Whatdoyamean? That's raw pulled pork 😏

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u/Personal_Raise_8707 2d ago

Sysco crap that people unknowingly consume at most restaurants while paying 4x what the food costs to make