So, it’s been what – 3 days without any pork products? There’s all this talk of the pork industry now shot to bits and having problems getting started again, jobs being lost etc. etc. But is there even any focus being put on the consumers themselves? All this news about those who work with the meat, but not those who eat it…

So, what has it done to us? Well, on Monday when I went to buy some lunch in my local supermarket before heading in, I noticed that some of the chilled section was completely bare. The entire section that used to be filled with yummy sausages, rashers, gammon steaks, pudding etc. was empty. Over at the deli where I was getting my hot chicken wrap, the cooked meats part was almost bare with the exception of a couple of varieties of turkey…

Today, I was in the Blanch Centre (picking up gift cards for some people…) and decided to head to Burger King. A big piece of paper was plastered over the big picture of the XL Bacon Double Cheeseburger: “No Bacon available”. I can live without breakfast rolls, I can live without ham in my rolls or sandwiches – but I cannot live without my XL Bacon Double Cheeseburgers

And what made it ever so slightly worse, was the “customer notice” that was up on the wall near the menu. Excerpts of what I remember from it:

Due to health ans safety concerns regarding Irish pork meat, we cannot serve bacon with any of our products.

Fail.
But, this following line is now making me reconsider their Big Breakfast Bap…

We are still serving sausages as we source them from outside Ireland.

I’m not sure if I want to know where, or what they get their sausage meat from. And their sausages are another thing. In their breakfast baps, the sausage is a long string of meat coiled around the inside of the bap. It almost looks like an animal took a dump, and then they painted it grey, and they cooked it.

I’d still eat it though

PS: Wikipedia article.