Mohalk wrote:Dogfish wrote:That's a lot of dead pigs! I've been leaving this nice weather for outdoors stuff but need to make up a bunch of sausage.
Pigs taste much better dead!
Not to change the subject but what would be a fair price for fresh pork belles. I just got a quote locally $2.49 lb. at an avg. of 25 lbs. ea.
Cheapest I could find in the stores around here was $2.99/lb at the Asian grocery stores. I did a little sleuthing around however and found a direct pig farmer who sells them for between $0.99-$1.29/lb. He also has heritage breeds that are closer to $5.99/lb (Berkshire) but these are just your bog standard pigs. I find them fatty and meaty enough for good bacon and while Berkshire and other expensive pigs do in fact make better bacon, the bog standard bellies are still leagues above all store bought crap.
To answer your question, $2.49/lb is probably equal to the cheapest store bought stuff here when the exchange rate is taken into account. If you can find some direct farmers you can sometimes work out better deals.