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    Bacon and Whatever Happened to Regular Cut?

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    7 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    Okay, I misread it. <_<What's wrong with Walmart? B)

    Nothing at all.  I do most of our grocery shopping at the Walmart Neighborhood Grocery in Rohnert Park.  But it's the only place that regularly has the regular cut. Safeway,  Lucky, etc. don't.  I could buy 5 pound packages at Chef's Store, but I don't want to get that much at once.

    Bacon and Whatever Happened to Regular Cut?

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    3 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    Yes Ma'am. I know that it's a 12 oz. package. But it IS the regular cut that Subdeacon Joe was asking about, available at Walmart. 

     

    11 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

    Why is regular cut bacon so hard to find now? All I can find in supermarkets, except Walmart

     

    Bacon and Whatever Happened to Regular Cut?

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    All y'all are dancing around my point that regular cut bacon is getting harder and harder to find.

     

    Thick cut is great for some things. Especially cutting up into beans or soup. Sometimes good for eating as strips of bacon. But it really falls short if you are doing bacon wrapped almost anything. You have to parcook it, almost to thepointof beingyoo crisp to use, to keep from overlooking whatever you are wrapping it with. 

     

    Hard to crumble it, too. Yeah,  chop it before or after cooking it, but that gives a different texture and look than crumbles.

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    Bacon and Whatever Happened to Regular Cut?

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    25 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

    The last bacon I bought was Brookfield less sodium and was regular cut at my local grocery store. 

     

    16 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

    One of my local supermarkets slices and packages their own bacon produced by a local, small, family owned company!  They’ll slice it like I want it and it’s always prime cuts!

     

     

    Sounds like $15/lb, which I'm not going to touch. 

     

    For sandwiches I like 20-24, nice and crisp,  not crumbling, do 2 layers, maybe 3 if it's on the thinner end.

     

    Bacon and Whatever Happened to Regular Cut?

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    I was cooking some bacon 🥓 (thick cut) this morning and grumbling about it.

    Why is regular cut bacon so hard to find now? All I can find in supermarkets, except Walmart,  is think cut or extra-thick cut. And it seems that over the past couple of years there's been "mission creep" and it's gotten thicker and thicker.  I  guess soon Regular Cut will be 6-8 and Thick Cut will be 2-3.

     

    Bacon Slice Count by Thickness
     
    • Thin Cut: ~28–32 slices per pound
    • Regular/Standard Cut: ~16–20 slices per pound
    • Thick Cut: ~10–14 slices per pound
    • Extra Thick Cut: ~6–8 slices per pound [1, 2, 3]
    (Yes, @Alpo I know that there are gaps in those ranges)
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    Taxes for Electric vehicles

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    23 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

    With so many of the incentives for EVs and hybrids disappearing, has anyone noticed whether the rate of sales for them has decreased??

     

    The sales of new EVs has decreased  by about 25%  in the last year.  But not just because the various incentives have gone away. High interest rates contribute, and consumer anxiety and uncertainty.  Bur all spending on major purchases has decreased by about the same amount.

     

    However,  sales of liw milage used EVs has increased significantly. 

     

    For example,  later this year we'll be surrendering our 2019 Nissan Leaf under a Lemon Law settlement.   There2had been several minor recalls...programing of the defroster, wiring harness for the backup camera, but the nig one was in September 2024 a recall about the battery. Seems there is an issue with Level 3 charging and overheating.  No, none caught fire.  But the NHTSA was concerned and issued a recall.  Nissan sent the notices that it was a software issue,  and that a fix would be available by Sping of 2025. And kept pushing it out every few months. so we filed under the Lemon Law. Finally about a month ago we got the notice that the software fix is finally available.  Then a week ago we got another notification saying,  "Hey! If this or that fault shows up within a year of the fix, we'll have to replace the battery ir buy the car back." Great. 

     

    We went looking at the Chevy Bolt EUV.  We saw several 2023 and 2024, under 20,000 miles that we could afford. (We're irked that we have a settlement,  but it will take another 4 months for Nissan to propose a surrender date, then 2 to 3 weeks to get us the payment). 250 mile range, half an hour to recharge.  Which is fine with us because

    1 ) we're smart enough to plan for that,  and

    2.) after about 200 miles, really more like 150, we're ready for a good stretch of the legs and back.  Long gone are the days of driving 12 hours and only stopping twice for gas.

     

    But, we figure that more towards the end of the year there will be more and newer ones available as people trade them in or leases end.

     

     

     

     

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    Taxes for Electric vehicles

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    Core Fees and TaxesAnnual Registration/Road Tax: EVs are charged a flat $50 special registration fee (in place of gas taxes). Drivers can also opt into a Road Usage Charge (RUC) program instead.Sales and Use Tax: Standard state and local sales taxes apply to the full purchase price of a vehicle in California.Partial Sales Tax Exemption: Low-to-moderate-income buyers may qualify for a partial state sales and use tax exemption on eligible zero-emission vehicles. Use the California Air Resources Board to find income requirements and approved models.

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    Strange Relations

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    56 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:


    You might as well be strangers!

     

    In the family tree I described above, my Mom's parents were double second cousins:  two sets of their grandparents consisted of two brothers who married two sisters...hard to sort out without a diagram.  
     

    Just evidence that social opportunities were limited before 1910 in rural America.  

     

     

    Yep. But it's still fun to watch people blink when we say,  "We're cousins!"  :D

     

    My dad was from Rockcastle County KY. My wife found she had an ancestor from Pulaski County KY. Rockcastle was cobbled together from parts of Pulaski and 3 other counties back about 1810. When she told me about finding a Kentucky ancestor I had her check my genealogy that she works on. BINGO!

     

    Now, here's a kicker...People sometimes ask if we're siblings. 

    From about 10 years ago.

     

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    Does anyone like this?

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    2 minutes ago, Stump Water said:

    I have a cousin that is a nail tech.  Real or acrylic, hand painted or decals, some of the work (art) they do is pretty amazing.  And, like anything else that requires skill, once the word gets out that you're good you can set your price.  IOW... good money.

     

    "Pretty amazing" can be an understatement.  Like some of the high end paint on low riders, but in miniature. 

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