We use a fair amount of them in cooking.
When I noticed frying regular bacon to crumble up was getting pretty pricey,
and read the label on the pre-made stuff, and thought---
Oh, no,,, I'm not getting this stuff with 40 letter long ingredients.
So I started getting the three pound packages of ends & pieces they trim off before the big slab gets
sliced into the perfect size pieces we see in the expensive flat packages.
I was just chopping one up to fry today. It's kind of labor intensive to chop the chunks up,
fry them, and chop them up again when they're done- then it dawned on me:
I was making sausage just last week. So, I asked myself,
"Self- why didn't you run a package or two of these through the grinder when you had it set up and running"?
Well, I'll remember to do it next time.