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2025-06-08 12:51:32 UTC

Yvan 🔜(ish) #40c3 on Nostr: Couldn't resist something in the Polish supermarket that appeared to be called ...

Couldn't resist something in the Polish supermarket that appeared to be called Peasant Bacon in Romanian (slaninuta taraneasca / slăninuță țărănească... bacon (usually fat/belly) & "peasant" or "country style"). I got home and took a closer look and realised it is basically half a kilo of guanciale for a fiver. Salted, herbed, hot smoked pig cheek. The details on the packet rear are apparently "Limburgish" according to Lens, rather than Romanian, but it has a "Produs in Romania" label on the front, made by S.C. Marcel S.R.L.

I just fried some, and it is very very evil-good...

So, basically, I have found a budget source of decent guanciale and now I need to dig up some Italian cook books for reminders on what to do with this. IIRC, In the past I have mainly used guanciale as a sort of fattier pancetta.

#meat #bacon #food