My guilty pleasure - salt pork

[gritsar]

I'm about to eat my lunch. Yes, yes! I know it's suppertime, but we don't eat supper until about 1 AM when my DH gets home from work.
I'm tired, I don't feel good, I'm miserable.
I'm fixing myself a fried salt pork, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

There's bacon for a traditional BLT, but salt pork seems more sinful somehow.
I'm not the only southerner that eats fried salt pork, right?

 

[EweSheep]

Need one for the Civil War reenactments and I dont know if I'd like it. I love BLT!

 

[EweSheep]

Do you slice yours thinly like bacon?

 

[raroo]

What's salt pork?

Sounds yummy...

 

[gritsar]

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Actually I buy it already sliced like bacon. The brand I buy is Hormel. We keep it on hand for flavoring pinto beans, collards, etc.
Raroo, salt pork is alot like bacon, only saltier. Same basic cuts of pork as bacon, but then cured in heavy salt. Mainly used as a seasoning. When you fry it it comes out like pork rinds, except as I said, saltier.
Fortunately for me I am both hypotensive and had a sodium deficency due to a medication I take, so I salt away.

 

[speckledhen]

Didn't know folks actually ate salt pork. We only use it to season beans when we cook them.

 

[gritsar]

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Been eating it all my life Cyn and I'm still normal...or you know what I mean.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, normal is highly overrated, Kat, LOL. Just never occurred to me to eat it like bacon. And I adore bacon!!

 

[saddina]

Last time I cooked some up was for coq au vin, and i must admit I snuck a nibble or two. It is the best thing for giving a stron bacon-y flavor when cooking, I just don't call it salt pork when someone asks what the "great bacon wrapped chicken leg" is. Then again there's also lard in my fridge, can't make good tamales with shortening.

 

[EweSheep]

Well I am taking high blood pressure meds so that would have to be in rare moderation for me to sample that treat. I do NOT like pork rinds, nasty stuff! My mother loves them!