Comments on: Food That Time Forgot: Canned Bacon

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:58:04 +0000

That is interesting if it is one of the few remaining cans – We have about 4 or 5 cans in the basement of my parents’ house. I took a can backpacking with me last year!

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:29:40 +0000

I’m just about ready to add a can to our homemede beans, I have 3 cans,
minus one now.My Mom and Dad always had the Bacon. It’s great in beans.
It would be nice to stock up on it again!
Renee, Big Lake Alaska

By: BillHoo

BillHoo — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:09:51 +0000

Yes, I called up Celebrity Food number in NJ in 2005 when I was in Iraq. They told me they no longer imported the canned bacon.

There was tons of bacon at the dining facilities on base in Iraq, but that was cooked for you. I wanted something I could cook myself – makes me feel almost like I’m home.

The new Yoders canned bacon is nice if all you wanted was the bacon.

The Celebrity product was nice because you still had to cook it to your liking and the rendered lard could be used for other cooking and adding flavor to other dishes.

Yoders, you might as well buy the pre-cooked bacon in sealed bags by Hormel! Just ready to eat. No fun in that!

By: mike

mike — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:39:47 +0000

I loved the smell of canned bacon cooking on a coleman stove. the thought takes me back to camping in upper penisula michigan as a kid.

By: Renee

Renee — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:03:16 +0000

I’m just about ready to add a can to our homemade beans, I have 3 cans minus 1 my mom and dad always had the bacon. This is tha last of it. We love it!!
It would be nice to have it back in stock.
truly, a Celebrity Sliced Bacon fan
Renee, Big Lake Alaska

By: Don

Don — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:26:18 +0000

I loved that stuff!!!! We took it camping, we would open it up and rinse it off then use the wax paper inside to start the fire with. Iam trying to find some canned bacon now It was the best Bacon I ever had.

By: Hollowdweller

Hollowdweller — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:55:32 +0000

That bacon rocked. Sometimes you had to wash some of the salt off or you’d swell up if you ate much of it but it tasted like real country bacon.

That’s too bad about the Yoders being fully cooked and not real cured.

Wish the real thing was still available.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:21:40 +0000

I grew up with Celebrity bacon. My mother made a Hungarian dish and we’d use a whole can of it and it was the most flavorful bacon imaginable. I wish I could still buy it in the U.S. I used my last can a few days ago and it was definately over 20 years old. My mother bought it at KMart and a whole case of cans moved to different continents whenever I moved. If anyone can find a comparable substitute, please publish where it can be found.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:14:14 +0000

oh and to date there is no other company ion the US that sells canned bacon. xcept the fakey cooked Yoder

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:11:51 +0000

Well here is the latest on all you celebrity canned bacon fans. You need to go to Europe. The only USA import company that ever sold or imported this bacon is Celebrity Foods aka Atalanta Corp. in Elizabeth New Jersey 908-351-8000 – I actually spoke to the gentleman that did the ordering of this bacon and all imports of this item was stopped more than 5 yeras ago completely. No more to Alaska or whatever anyone tells you. Sorry guys. I loved it too. Oh, and as for that BS company ‘Yoder’ it is nothing like the celebrity. It is not salt/smoke cured -its precooked with artificial smoke flavor. Its garbage. They compare themselves as the same but do not waste your money.

By: Bababoozer

Bababoozer — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:58:31 +0000

My Grandfather sold imported foods and we grew up on this. VERY greasy and VERY salty , but it would be fun to try another can for the memories.

By: BruceM

BruceM — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:59:54 +0000

Having fully cooked canned bacon is really beside the point. You can get fully cooked bacon anywhere; putting it in a can for $11 a pop is just an expensive marketing gimmick. While I appreciate the thought, canned bacon should be uncooked, packed in that globby, greasy salt concoction, and wrapped in wax paper with a key attached to the top of the can for opening. The bacon should be made from Danish pork bellies: nice and lean, with wide strips. DAK used to be the best canned bacon, with Celebrity a distant second (although when DAK stopped making it, we bought Celebrity because it was the only other brand out there)

By: DeeDee

DeeDee — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:10:24 +0000

back when we went camping in the 70’s we always ate canned bacon where can we find it now?

By: Dempsey

Dempsey — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:44:35 +0000

can celebrity bacon be bought at all anymore? it was a part of life at my home in alaska.

By: RIchard

RIchard — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:32:39 +0000

Kitkat- Ready Depot is located not too far from you in Winchester VA. They also carry canned hamburger and canned butter.

By: Ghostshopper

Ghostshopper — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:11:38 +0000

I fed my family on canned bacon for years. It was cheaper and good tasting, too. The brand I bought at the stupidmarket was from Denmark, as I recall. I haven’t seen any for years!

By: Kitkat

Kitkat — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:36:23 +0000

30+ years ago, I use to buy canned bacon at a gourmet shop in McLean VA and I agree that it was the best tasting bacon ever. Wish they still sold it.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:42:45 +0000

The canned bacon is back – just under a different label and precooked this time; http://www.mredepot.com/servlet/the-364/Yoder%E2%80%99s-Celebrity-Canned-Bacon/Detail