to think pork belly squares sounds utterly revolting|?

[emkana]

In the M & S advert

We had pork belly for dinner tonight - lovely! Roasted in the oven for 2 hours on slow heat with potato halves, some onions and an apple cut in chunks, then quick heat to crisp it up. Yum yum yum (and cheap).

Wouldn't like it as party food though, I think fatty food should preferably be eaten very hot.

I think it sounds yum and I've been veggie for 30 years!

YANBU! I mentioned this on a thread about Iceland mini food yesterday...I brought up M&Ss selection and those heave-worthy porky fatty squares! For me it's the fact they have stuck them on a cocktail stick and pretended its a delicate little snack!

IT'S NOT! It's GROSS!

I love pork bellu, it's delicious and really cheap.
I cooked breast of lamb recently too which is similar in that it's very fatty, but really tasty and cheap as chips.

It has to be eaten hot though, cold fat isn't very nice.

I agree that pork belly as a hot dinner is lovely, but the idea of the cocktail size ones that don't immediately get eaten - those little squares slowly congealing on the buffet table - eww!

YANBU. Pork belly slow roasted on a bed of fennel is my favourite roast ever. [drool emoticon]

I was watching that ad oday and thought that sounds a bit nasty actually...looks like a glazed porky tiramisu on a stick..

Yes, Peering - me too. Love sticking some sliced fennel bulbs under a pork roast.

In fact this is yummy: Get a Pork loin joint, make a big slash to open up the meat from the bone, lay on some fennel seeds, fresh thyme and sage leaves, salt and pepper and some tinned peaches, roll it up and tie it, and roast it until the fat has turned to crackling. Bloody gorgeous it is.

(slash fat and rub in salt and olive oil, and tip in a glass of white wine and a chopped fennel bulb to the tray.)

I've never tried it like that but often rub the skin with crushed fennel seeds.

YANBU . Pork belly squares are just soggy pork scratchings.

However, I'd eat a whole plateful if I had to choose between those and the 'dessert sandwiches'. Yuk!

Those dessert sandwiches!!..i saw those in RL they don't look good at all ...sinister and freaky at the same time I tells ya!

I can't see how the sandwiches made it past the brainstorm . It's like something an Apprentice candidate would think up!

I haven't seen them but they sound grim and are clearly not a popular choice here. What do they involve?

The sandwiches, not the pork squares

YANBU! And it's not like streaky bacon, cause streaky bacon is at least fried and crispy. The ones in the advert just look like hunks of flab. :(

I am glad someone else mentioned this! I think it every time I see the advert.

YANBU - I am biased, because I am a 'No Pork on My Fork'-er, but yuck!

All the food in that advert looks vile, even Iceland's offerings look better.