In Praise of Bacon
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
An Ode To The Bacon Butty. Hardeep Singh Kohli's personal plea to the nation to reflect on a food of wonder: bacon. Hardeep goes on a roadtrip around Scotland meeting bacon eaters, makers, regalers and producers.
Producer: Emma Weatherill.
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| 1:04.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:05.0 | How you're baking that? |
| 1:07.0 | Quite well done, please. |
| 1:08.0 | We better catch up with a great thanks. |
| 1:11.0 | How much is that? |
| 1:12.0 | 1.40 is for bacon. Thank you. How much is that? A 140, this would be taken. |
| 1:14.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:15.0 | Day one, it's 1 PM. |
| 1:18.0 | I met a greasy spoon somewhere in deepest darkest lancher |
| 1:22.0 | at the very start of my journey, but it's more than a journey. |
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