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Re:Judas Goats: Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit Once Ruled t... by blockinator on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:39AM (#33656282)
> A living cow, pig, or sheep entered the killing floor on top of the slaughterhouse and met with a sledgehammer or captive-bolt, and descended each floor in bits of appreciating value, i.e., eventually exiting the bottom floor as packaged bacon or a side of ribs.

regarding the bacon - is that really correct? I thought bacon-making was a longer, more involved process that would probably have been done off-site (brining,curing,smoking,etc).

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Re:Judas Goats: Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit Once Ruled t... by voxic11 on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:50AM (#33656463)
Its involved but seems like it can be done pretty quickly https://nassaufoods.com/resources/basic-manufacturing-of-bac...
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Re:Judas Goats: Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit Once Ruled t... by swamp40 on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:51AM (#33656477)
I think there is a bit of poetic license there.
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Re:Judas Goats: Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit Once Ruled t... by paunchy on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:56AM (#33656558)
It's called pipelining. If you have 5 floors of space to work with, there's no reason you couldn't run a 48 or 72 hour bacon-making process on a portion of the pork running through the facility.
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Re:Judas Goats: Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit Once Ruled t... by Infernal on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:56AM (#33656561)
I believe bacon just describes the cut. In my area of the US, you can buy a package of uncured bacon right alongside the usual cured varieties. I don't know for sure, but I'd imagine the slaughterhouses described here wouldn't be doing any processing outside of the slaughtering, butchering, and packing.
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Re:Judas Goats: Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit Once Ruled t... by peteradio on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:01PM (#33658873)
FYI, the cut is pork belly. Uncured bacon is still processed in roughly the same manner as cured bacon but without direct use of nitrates. It is dubious to call it uncured however.
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