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30 Second Bacon
13th March 2009

Probably the biggest success of last year and this Spring has been the Southover English Cooked Cured Back Bacon, or ‘Thirty Second Bacon’.  Multi-award winning and truly innovative, this product has been a triumph for Southover.

Months of product development went into answering the demands of numerous catering businesses.  There was a need, it appeared, to eliminate a lot of the costs and time invested in presenting cooked meats, specifically bacon.  As a fresh product it required cooking time, training for handling raw meat, high and low risk separation in the preparation area and so on, resulting in a lot of investment for a popular product.

Getting a natural, high quality product that could circumvent these issues without incurring dramatic increases in cost seemed almost impossible – that is, until Southover developed the ‘Thirty Second Bacon’.  It’s a cooked product, first and foremost, immediately eliminating the need for raw meat considerations, but more importantly it is a cooked product that can be safely heated up in the microwave in thirty seconds.

That, you’re probably thinking, isn’t particularly clever.  You’d be right, too.  In itself producing a cooked bacon that can be re-heated isn’t exactly rocket science, but producing one that looks, smells and tastes like it’s fresh out of the pan with a short whiz in the microwave, that’s something else.  And it gets better – in order to maintain it’s reputation as a high quality food producer, Southover made sure that the bacon they used was English and the best they could get.  The result was a sensational success.

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