rasher 4 September 2011
We Irish have various words for things that differ slightly from other nations – eg in the main, we refer to spring onions as scallions and a thin slice of bacon is a rasher. I am a meat eater (in spite of totally approving of a vegetarian lifestyle…and often hankering after one) but I would really miss the Rasher should I ever go the veggie route. To wit, I am particularly delighted that I can now find rasher with the rind still on in the supermarket. For ages, everything was rindless and therefore pointless (or at the very least diminished) and I could easily pass all by. Problem is that, whilst on my (nascent) regime, I am trying to avoid most things fried and today while ‘inventing’ the Breakfast Pitta for Himself, who does not indulge in the rind (a bonus for me in a Jack Spratt and his wife kinda way), found myself scoffing the offcuts (ie rind) so basically I had the fattiest bit = ARGH!
The pitta was a total success incidentally – wholemeal with a filling of low fat leerdammer, (rindless) rasher and soft fried egg…
I do not care for hickory or any other sort of smoked rasher.
