DailyDirt: Bacon A La Mode
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Bacon is an almost universally-loved food item — it’s salty and fatty and meaty all at the same time. So it’s not too surprising that people will try to add bacon to almost any dish. Everything is better with bacon… and here are some examples that test that assertion.
- The makers of Baconnaise and Bacon Baby Formula have created a bacon-themed coffin for sale. For about $3,000 plus shipping, you too, could be preserved in a casket that looks like bacon. [url]
- Bacon-scented hand sanitizer is a great way to pickup stray dogs. Or to get your hand bitten… [url]
- Burger King has introduced a bacon sundae to its menu. It’s not available at every location yet — only a few hip places around Nashville, Tennessee. [url]
- Jack in the Box has a bacon milkshake that packs 773 calories into 16 ounces of bacon-flavored refreshment. No actual bacon was harmed to create this milkshake, just bacon-flavored syrup. [url]
- To discover more food-related links, check out what’s floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]
By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
Filed Under: bacon, baconnaise, coffin, food, hand sanitizer, nashville, sundae
Companies: burger king
Comments on “DailyDirt: Bacon A La Mode”
Here is an artery buster for ya lol…
http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/
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Jim Gaffigan loves Bacon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaK9bjLy3v4
“She said, ‘Don’t gimme no swine, and keep your ham to yourself’.” -ApologetiX
Would You Like Some Ham With That Pork?
All wrapped up in a bacon rasher… mmm…
Trivia: English is just about the only language with separate words for animals when they?re alive versus when they?re food (?pig? versus ?pork?, ?cattle? versus ?beef?, ?sheep? versus ?mutton?). Why?
Would You Like Some Ham With That Pork?
Ancient people had some respect for the deceased?
Maybe it was a shame thing, they felt bad butchering all those animals?
Would You Like Some Ham With That Pork?
why are there different words for fruits that are fresh versus dried? eg. grapes and raisins…
Would You Like Some Ham With That Pork?
Trivia: English is just about the only language with separate words for animals when they?re alive versus when they?re food (?pig? versus ?pork?, ?cattle? versus ?beef?, ?sheep? versus ?mutton?). Why?
I know! I know!
Because usually one (“sheep”) has Germanic roots, and the other (“mutton” / “moutton”) has Romantic roots – and it was a matter of class division. The peasants used the English words for the animals, and the upper classes used the Latin words for the prepared food.
Just one of the many reasons English is awesome and crazy for having not one but two major language roots.
Would You Like Some Ham With That Pork?
Why is a grown woman a “chick” and a little girl a “chicken”?
Would You Like Some Ham With That Pork?
And why does English have the two sets of roots?
Because of the Norman conquest. The England-conquering nobility spoke Norman French, so they used the French names for the animals. But since they mainly saw the cooked food, while the (Germanic-speaking) peasants were the ones who dealt with the live animals, as you say, that?s how the names got divvied up among the living/food states.
Meat would have been comparatively expensive in those days, so it was quite likely a rare treat for those less well-off, while only the nobility could afford to have it every day.
funny 'mericans
Friend send me a link to some “cookery” videos some time back. Basically just seeing how much bacon you can layer around things like turkeys.
This.. well.. it seems to be mainly a North-American addiction. Fat + Calories + large portion = good food to a lot of them.
Good heart attack food you mean . . .