Wait a minute...

[kengr]

There's a new Wendy's add that makes a big thing about "fresh" ingredients.

They have customers of some unnamed competitor asking if various things are fresh. And getting evasive answers.

One of the questions was "Is this bacon fresh?" With a reply of "define bacon."

It wasn't until just now that it occurred to me to ask "What the heck is 'fresh' bacon?"

After all, bacon was *created* as a long term storage food (so was ham). It's salted nd smoked to preserve it.

Yeah, modern bacon is a bit different and doesn't keep that well without refrigeration.. But even so "fresh" is not a word to apply to it.

Now "freshly cooked" is a different matter.

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[fayanora.livejournal.com]

Well obviously fresh bacon is bacon taken fresh from the pig. I wonder if that means Wendy's slaughters hogs on its premises. :-)

Which reminds me... whenever my family would eat out somewhere, if it was taking a ridiculously long time for the food to get to us, one of us would ask the rest of the group, "I wonder what's taking them so long?" and the reply would be "Maybe they had to go slaughter the hog/milk the cow/other funny thing like that." I think I even once commented "Well they had to go plant the wheat..." :-)

Another funny I just remembered! Mom used to plan the week's dinners ahead of time so we wouldn't have to make as many trips to the store (we used to be plagued by the whole "What do eat tonight?" "Well spaghetti sounds awesome, but we don't have any sauce." problem). If we were planning to go on a trip or eat out, she'd write that on the "menu" too. One day, I think I was 18, she wrote "Eat out Omaha" for one of the days, and I joked, "Who the heck is Omaha?" :-D

[kengr]

The cut of meat that becomes bacon is not bacon until after it has been cured and/or smoked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon

Follow the links for "curing" and "smoking" in the above article.

So there's no such *thing* as fresh bacon. It'd be like "fresh" aged cheese.

One day, I think I was 18, she wrote "Eat out Omaha" for one of the days, and I joked, "Who the heck is Omaha?"

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[fayanora.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. Destroying grammar in the name of crass commercialism.
Personally, to me, 'fresh' meat, whether salt-cured ham in thin strips or ground beef, is 'meat that hasn't sat in the fridge until it begins to spoil.'
Also, having sampled more fast food than I should, I can say that the ingredients that go into the making of the food on-site are fairly decent, aside from Arby's getting some stringy stuff now and then that really needs to have been turned into ground chuck. The majority of the low-quality aspects of fast food (in my experience, that is!) tend to creep in by the on-site staff, where perfectly good meat, potatoes, and salad vegetables are made nigh inedible (or contaminated) by people who are lax, ignorant (undertrained, that is), or similar. I'd rather have well-cooked stew meat than badly cooked New York Strip!