Can you get bacon with the rind on it in your area?

[Conan The Librarian]

I've always liked bacon with the rind on it (a thin strip of rind that cooks up chewy when you fry the bacon). But I've only seen it in northern Florida. Have you seen it in other places?

[powderman]

YES. It's jowl bacon, pronounced jole, it is cured then either sold sliced or in one piece. It comes from the jowls of a hog. Mighy good tasting, but not healthy. POWDERMAN. 

[Sourdough]

Different parts of the country say things different, in Tennessee the w in Jowl is pronounced.  And the side meat and pork belly bacon you buy at the country stores has the rind on it.  Side meat bacon comes from the back area and has 15% fat content, the Pork Belly bacon comes from the belly area and has 60% fat content.  I'm a heart patient and look into these things.  Fat is cholesterol.  I have to limit my intake.

I see it in Safeway all the time.  Not under the name brands like Hormel, Oscar Meyer, or Farmland.  But the brands that sell it in the larger (3#) bulk packages.

The wife won't buy the bacon with rind on it.  When I go to the store and bring it home she throws a fit, refusing to cook it.  That's why I buy it, I want to cook it my way.

[Defoe]

YES. It's jowl bacon, pronounced jole, it is cured then either sold sliced or in one piece. It comes from the jowls of a hog. Mighy good tasting, but not healthy. POWDERMAN. 

my store has jowl and a standard looking thick-sliced "rind on" bacon.

[powderman]

After my Dads first heart attack he said, what a million japs couldn't do, jowl bacon and cigarettes has done.  Modern jowl bacon is just smoked, it used to be salted but that took longer. POWDERMAN. 

[Defoe]

After my Dads first heart attack he said, what a million japs couldn't do, jowl bacon and cigarettes has done.  Modern jowl bacon is just smoked, it used to be salted but that took longer. POWDERMAN. 

that jowl sure is good.  I drain it good on paper-towels and have jowl and mustard sandwiches.

[Ranger99]

i've not seen any, although i must
say i never look for it either.


i'm sure it's here to be had cuz in the
'hood that i'm in, the store has 2 kinds
of sliced cheese and 15 different kinds
of tripe.