seems to be ok so far but it also didn’t happen every time

huh. That does happen to me. Im in a billion subs but this one crashes in the app.

Don’t get me wrong, fat has its time and place. I cant eat meat any longer but I long for the days of a nice fatty rib eye or thick hunk of fatty prime rib cooked medium rare. Im a big believer in Philly cheesesteaks being fatty. Hell I picked the fatty parts off the roast hams my mom made for the holidays. But there is just something so off about the fat in lunchmeat like this. I also think their closely related cousins the dutch load, old fashioned loaf, pickle loaf etc are equally gross and they use similar methods.

that recipe isnt that far off from Islay’s actual bbq sauce. They just use a different and cheaper sweetener.

yes! It flies everywhere. Fat smeared all over the slicer. We chip multiple pounds of it and put it in containers to sell throughout the day because it makes such a mess. When I have to clean the trays and containers I have to soak them in the hottest soapy water I can to melt all the residual fat because there’s no just wiping it off.

Ive worked at Shop n Save deli for a while, I can’t even begin to tell you the hundreds of pounds of this stuff that I have chipped. The official Islay’s brand. There is an absolute clear difference between this type of lunchmeat and your standard actual hunk of whole meat. No pig is marbled in such a way that Islay’s ham looks like. Its all ground up and made into a loaf. The only ham I found worse was Bar S and it is mostly white and very light pink due to all the fat. Its the reason they are so much cheaper per pound.

Islay’s chipped ham with Islay’s bbq sauce. Sold at every Giant Iggle and Shop n Save in the area but ya gotta buy it at the deli and make it yourself.

Im not from the area originally but I found it revolting. The ham is the most disgusting fatty mechanically separated and put back together weird hunk of nope Ive ever seen. And I come from the land of pork roll (chefs kiss) and scrapple (everything but the oink). The second ingredient in Islay’s bbq sauce is high fructose corn syrup and the fourth ingredient is corn syrup, to give you an idea.

Supply chain issues/labor shortages/back logs at the ports due to the pandemic where all reasonable explanations that I could understand. I know labor can still be an issue but transportation wise everything is in a much better place. Im just not so sure this is only a labor issue.

Im irate. I was just in Giant Eagle, which I generally try to avoid, and the bags of Birdseye frozen veggies were $3+. Goes for $1.23-$2.50 at Walmart.

shop n save Rochester and Ambridge are owned by the same people. Ambridge would be closer.

I think Im the only one that didn’t care for them .