BACON IS DEAD...and has been for some time now.

[Simon of the Playa]

although it has been quite evident for a few years now, i think it's time to officially declare that Bacon is Dead.

seriously.

enough already.

if i see one more goddamn bacon infused product i'm going to scream bloody Henry Winkler.

[media]

now get with the pogrom.

[tatonka]

i hear sizzlean may cause anal leakage ?

[Simon of the Playa]

no, that is Pringles with Olestra™...


and the official term is "rectal leakage", read the fine print on the can.

[theCryptofishist]

and the official term is "rectal leakage", read the fine print on the can.

Oh crap! He's morphing into his CIA persona.)

[Thecatman]

[media]

[Simon of the Playa]

and the official term is "rectal leakage", read the fine print on the can.

Oh crap! He's morphing into his CIA persona.)

i didn't mention anything about the bacon flavored hummus enema.

you brought it up...







BTW, it WAS necessary. it's important to stay hydrated.

[theCryptofishist]

Yes, dear.





Edited to add: I don't think "brought up" is the proper idiom in this case.

[Captain Goddammit]

Bacon flavored stuff is dead. Bacon, in it's original pure form, shall never die!

[ranger magnum]

^^^this is true!

I am, in fact, currently consuming macaroni and cheese and bacon!

[MyDearFriend]

Well I hope that any bacon you guys eat is actually just as dead as it can be, 'cause, I hate to think of some pig screaming like a leaf of lettuce while you chew on it.

[Lonesomebri]

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[goathead]

and the official term is "rectal leakage", read the fine print on the can.

Oh crap! He's morphing into his CIA persona.)

What happens when you wash all the socks together, red ones, white ones, makes it hard to tell which is which.

[Simon of the Playa]

Oh crap! He's morphing into his CIA persona.

[unjonharley]

all around a pigs ass is pork too..

[TomServo]

Did the taste of Bacon suddenly change?

[The Rod]

No. It didn't.

Le Simon must be tired of all kitschy bacony crap crap that has been trendy for a few years now, compounded by bacon being a big deal for most burners and burners tend to get pretty ridiculous about things they think are a big deal...

And being the rabble-rouser he is, now he's out here rousing the rabble. But the bacon in it's pure form that le Capitaine is talking about will never die. So far, bacon is pretty much the crowning achievement of human gastronomy on this planet.

And it's here to stay.



Incidentally, today was the day we sliced and vacuumed sealed the bacon. The bacon we smoked from the hogs we raised.

Today was a good day.


Long live bacon.

[Eric]

So far, bacon is pretty much the crowning achievement of human gastronomy on this planet.

*thud*
I worry about the future...

[FlyingMonkey]

I've been away..... Is there a 2015 "what's in-what's out" thread yet? This needs to officially be addressed.

In - Kale

Out - Bacon infused everything

[GreyCoyote]

It looks like Eric tried the bacon-flavored milk.

Lactose intolerance is a horrible thing.

[Simon of the Playa]

So far, bacon is pretty much the crowning achievement of human gastronomy on this planet.

says the french guy.


case closed.

i win.

again.

[The Rod]

Whatever.

Skeptics and vegetarians be damned. You can say it's because I'm french, but the fact remains that bacon is a near perfect food and you have no argument otherwise.



If we ever met on playa, I'd share some of the private reserve with you and then, maybe then you'd understand...

[Simon of the Playa]

that's some pig...

[Elorrum]

nobody ever said, "That's some spider..."
I eat op bacon, never cook it for myself. I seem to get all I desire that way. I thank my bacon loving friends, but could live as happily without bacon. Ive said it, elephant faithful.

[Eric]

the fact remains that bacon is a near perfect food and you have no argument otherwise.

Well, there's the argument that "near perfect" is an utterly meaningless phrase. Near perfect for whom, or in contention with what? With all other foods on the planet? I think "the fact" that my mother-in-law could die if she ate it due to the ridiculous levels of salt it contains is a pretty good argument for it being less than "perfect" (she's not alone in being on a very restricted sodium diet, due to our modern way of eating way too much food that's been processed with way too much salt ... like bacon)

"The fact" is that bacon is tasty (even I'll grant it that - I occasionally eat veggie bacon, which my omnivore boyfriend loves as well, and mushroom "bacon" is amazing), but there is a difference between "I love this yummy food" and "I've been breainwashed by the internet to endlessly repeat how amazing bacon is, and propagate more meme-spores celebrating it - along with everyone else". One is "Food! Yea!", the other is "I must follow internet meme's to the death! Yea!" Calling it "the crowning achievement of human gastronomy on this planet" just makes me feel sorry for you and the food desert you must live in, and shows a level of hyperbole in defense of fried pig-strips that is up there with "Obama hates America" in it's disconnect from reality.

tl;dr: Bacon as food, fine. Bacon as an non-stop looping meme of "The Bestest And Greatest Thing Ever"? Tired, boring, done, and about as original as Justin Bieber. The Cult of Bacon makes The Cult of Larry Harvey look creative.

[Simon of the Playa]

and this is why i love the internet.

[TomServo]

YUM!!RAW MEAT!

[TomServo]

now im hungry

[The Rod]

You call that an argument?


I'm sorry that your mother in law grew up in the culinary dark ages of America and cannot handle eating bacon after a life time of margarine and sucralose consumption... Sure, blame it on the bacon... Which, by the way is pretty far from 'modern' as you have suggested... The unfortunate product of industrialization that you see in your grocery store labeled bacon, is, by definition bacon but in the same way that Lauder's is scotch.

The basic principles of this food haven't changed in centuries and is arguably one of the most popular foods in the western world. Bacon and even more so charcuterie as a whole has been one of the great influencing factors in the development of the human race. If you don't believe me you can read this book, this book and this book. But then again, I don't really expect you to...

So... I totally get the idea that the stupid perpetuation of internet bacon memes has to stop, but the fault isn't with bacon, its our dumbed down 'brainwashed by the internet' meme perpetuating consumer culture. To be clear, I'm not brainlessly repeating some dumb meme because it's trendy, I'm defending bacon (charcuterie as a whole, but specifically bacon) as a pinnacle of culinary artistry because I am an artist and bacon is my art.

Not that I need to defend my credentials to likes of you, but after spending a dozen years as a professional chef, now raising my own animals for meat and living in one of the most vibrant agricultural communities in the country, It is I who must feel sorry for you and the food desert you inhabit. Sure, the Bay might be a great place for a vegetarian to eat fake bacon, but at the end of the day it is just that. Fake.



Man, I love me some interwebs!

[unjonharley]

I worked in the hog kill for a few weeks..

I do not eat pig..

Workes had to walk through part of the beef kill to get to the hog line..Every day there was a pile of puke just outside the kill.

Very little beef in the following 53 years..

My son worked as a chicken/turkey catcher.. One of the nastiest job of man kind.

We do not eat bird at our house..

[TomServo]

I worked at a pork processing plant...saw em killed and broken down..only change is, I will never eat pork rinds again...smells just like the scalding process. Still love Bacon.