Thanks for the review.We are driving to the actual retail store in the next few days.I found out a little more as well with a little prying.Seems Yoders owns the rights to the bacon they produce for online sales and catalog sales.However they can and still do sell it in store under there own label.Hence the drive to the store.They also have in store only pricing.24 28 oz cans for 132,mixed as you please.Cases of bacon are 90.So the UPS guy showed up on my doorstep this morning. As I was expecting nothing, I was intrigued.
Much to my suprise it was a box from werlinger containing two 14 oz cans of cooked pork.
The wife and I decided to try some out for lunch so here's the review.
NOTE, Disclaimer, whatever: I am on antibiotics which is having an affect on my smell/taste. Therefore I had she who must be obeyed backstop me on my observations (that means I made her eat it too).
So, my first thought on opening the can was "what's that smell?" checking with the wife, she said it smelled like spam. Looking at it, the can of meat looked vaguely like alpo, moist chucks of meat pressed together with liquid and some congealed fat.
I dumped the contents into a bowl and nuked it for a minute and three fourths. Now it smelled like regular pork to me and the wife. without adding anything to it at all meat tasted like a very tender pork roast. I drained the liquid out of the bowl, I would guess there was about 3/4 cup of liquid in the can, my wife said that it would probably make good gravy base.
We added BBQ sauce and made "pulled pork" sandwiches out of it. Overall it was very tender good quality meat. I was concerned that there may have been a lot of fat in the meat, but I encountered no fat or gristle at all.
The wife said that she would be willing to use it on a "lazy day" instead of cooking a pork roast. Her suggestion was to put carrots, taters, etc. into a crock and then add a can (or two) of the meat about 20 minutes before the veggies were done.
the ultimate test came later, after the daughter came home. I reheated the leftover meat and took her some. she is very hesitant to eat meat that I hand her, thinking that it's venison. After I convinced her that it wasn't venison she tried some and said, "so what about it?" I told her it was the canned meat, she said it was very good.
My wife said that she would assume that the beef and chicken were the same good quality, she want to try some turkey.
So, to recap:
Price is very competitive with what is in the stores.
Customer service is excellent, shipping was three days from when I placed the order on a Saturday to delivery.
Taste/quality of the meat is excellent.
In my opinon this is an excellent buy.
I think the op deserves a +1 from everybody for finding a winner.