fishplate42
Well-known member
It's okay, I am not going to be doing a huge survey on meat - I promise, but a few interesting facts have come to light...
Last week somebody told me that meat floats if it dries out. This lead to a discussion about its buoyancy and if it would act as a pop-up bait without any additional help, such as cork or foam. I will not go into all that again but if you want to read the original thread you can find it HERE.
I have only ever used Bacon Grill as hook bait hair rigged on a method feeder. I have not used any of the others as bacon grill works for what I use it for. Now I have had a cursory look at the other products I am now wondering about the actual content
There seems to be lots of different names for the same thing and lots of different contents for the same name. Bacon Grill from one brand can be totally different from the other.
There is SPAM, which is chopped pork and ham. Then there is Pork Luncheon Meat and various other cans that are labelled Chopped Pork and Ham and just to ring the changes some are sold as Chopped Ham and Pork!
If that is not confusing enough, Bacon Grill can contain wildly varying amounts of pork E.g. Tulip Branded Bacon Grill has 64% pork when Plumbrose Bacon Grill is only 43% pork.
Looking further into it I discovered that all the meats I bought (Don't worry, I only bought four cans!) Are "Produced in Denmark" For the same company, Tulip. Both Plumbrose and SPAM are brand names used by or owned by Tulip Ltd.
I can only assume the the brands were made to differing recipes and as they were bought up by the big multinationals they kept to them, or at least as close as makes no difference.
My question to you guys, who have been using this stuff for decades, is: What do you prefer and how do you use it?
Ralph.
Last week somebody told me that meat floats if it dries out. This lead to a discussion about its buoyancy and if it would act as a pop-up bait without any additional help, such as cork or foam. I will not go into all that again but if you want to read the original thread you can find it HERE.
I have only ever used Bacon Grill as hook bait hair rigged on a method feeder. I have not used any of the others as bacon grill works for what I use it for. Now I have had a cursory look at the other products I am now wondering about the actual content
There seems to be lots of different names for the same thing and lots of different contents for the same name. Bacon Grill from one brand can be totally different from the other.
There is SPAM, which is chopped pork and ham. Then there is Pork Luncheon Meat and various other cans that are labelled Chopped Pork and Ham and just to ring the changes some are sold as Chopped Ham and Pork!
If that is not confusing enough, Bacon Grill can contain wildly varying amounts of pork E.g. Tulip Branded Bacon Grill has 64% pork when Plumbrose Bacon Grill is only 43% pork.
Looking further into it I discovered that all the meats I bought (Don't worry, I only bought four cans!) Are "Produced in Denmark" For the same company, Tulip. Both Plumbrose and SPAM are brand names used by or owned by Tulip Ltd.
I can only assume the the brands were made to differing recipes and as they were bought up by the big multinationals they kept to them, or at least as close as makes no difference.
My question to you guys, who have been using this stuff for decades, is: What do you prefer and how do you use it?
Ralph.