DailyDirt: The American Bacon Obsession
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Americans reportedly eat, on average, more than 18 pounds of bacon each year. This unhealthy obsession with bacon apparently began in the 1990s when the high-protein, high-fat, low-carb Atkins Diet started gaining popularity. Now there are tons of bacon-inspired products available to the bacon lover, such as bacon ice cream, chocolate-dipped bacon, bacon doughnuts, bacon candy, bacon soap, bacon toothpaste, and bacon air freshener. Here are a few more examples.
- Next time you make yourself a drink, why not make a “Bacon Sour”? All you need is St-Germain Liqueur infused with applewood smoked bacon, Basil Hayden’s Bourbon, lemon juice, maple syrup, Peychaud’s Bitters, and some egg white. [url]
- You can be a real bacon lover with J&D’s Baconlube, a bacon-flavored personal lubricant and massage oil. Apparently, Baconlube began as an elaborate April Fool’s joke, but when J&D’s revealed that it was never intended to be a real product, bacon lovers everywhere protested. So now, for a limited time, you can buy an actual bottle of Baconlube. [url]
- On April 1st (wink), Scope announced that it was introducing an entirely vegetarian (i.e. “synthetic”) bacon-flavored mouthwash. Too bad it’s not real because this idea has potential. Imagine, usually nasty-tasting mouthwash now tastes like bacon, and vegetarians could get a 30-second bacon fix without actually having to eat a pig. [url]
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Filed Under: alcohol, bacon, bacon sour, flavoring, food, gag gifts, jokes, mouthwash, novelty
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Comments on “DailyDirt: The American Bacon Obsession”
Yuck!
I’m an American and I HATE bacon!
*Shudder*
It’s nothing but grease, crunchy stuff, yuck and fat.
Nothing good about it.
Proud to say that I haven’t had bacon in almost 15 years.
Re: Yuck!
I’m calling immigration to have you deported.
Re: Re: Yuck!
(coach mora voice)
deported !?
dePorted ?!
DePorted ?!
i say make’em into bacon ! ! !
Re: Re: Yuck!
born in the USA, I have the birth certificate to prove it.
Where would I be deported to?
Re: Re: Re: Yuck!
gitmo, you commie freak…
das piggie ist sur gut ! ! !
i’m going to have some smoked bacon, in just a while, a piggie our company bought from a 4-H kid and had butchered, it is ALL yummy, right down to the squeal…
pig-gie!
pig-gie!
pig-gie!
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re: Re: Re:2 Yuck!
Well, I hope you enjoy your heart attack then.
Re: Yuck!
Get outta my country you bacon hating communist scum
Re: Re: Yuck!
Mike hates bacon too, I presume.
Re: Yuck!
It’s nothing but grease, crunchy stuff, yuck and fat.
No, it’s grease, crispy stuff, and salt!
You know, for a country that’s obsessed with the stuff, you really suck at cooking it. Bacon is not supposed to shatter when you stab it with a fork!
what about pancetta or prosciutto?
bacon tastes good. pork chops taste gooood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0zJSgHDnpw
Bacon should be crisp. The very idea of the texture of rubbery fat makes my blood run cold, and my stomach heave.
On the other hand, pigs are smarter than dogs, and can be just as affectionate.
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i hear ‘long pigs’ are smarter than dogs, too, but i have my doubts…
they are not as affectionate as dogs, either…
not sure how they taste…
hee hee hee
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
The FDA Lied
There is nothing wrong with bacon. Everyone thinks something is because the FDA lied to them. You don’t remember the FDA, those folks who said trans-fat was good for you. Saturated fat has not been shown to cause heart attacks. That’s fructose. So enjoy your bacon. It’s good for you.
Now I got the joke. Ty BaconDirt.
Bacon Wrapped Marshmallow
I was camping this weekend and roasted a bacon wrapped marshmallow. I had some problems with the marshmallow melting while trying to get the bacon fully cooked but it mostly worked and turned out good 🙂