Salon.com is celebrating Pork Week, and they started off yesterday with an entire article devoted to BACON. It includes links to many of the various bacon products on the market … and by that I don’t mean bacon varietals. I mean bacon clothing, bacon accessories, bacon candles, bacon gift wrap … you name a product, and these days there’s one made of bacon (or at least made to look like bacon).
I’ve written in the past about bacon products here and here.
The author also tries to dissect the reasons for our enthusiasm for bacon, breaking it down into the following categories: Bacon is rebellion, Bacon is sexy, Bacon is kitsch, Bacon is an Internet joke, Bacon is a crafting trend, Bacon is funny, and Bacon is America.
The author quotes one chef who refers to bacon as the”gateway protein,”
It’s a pretty funny article, but for me it’s ironic … hence the title of this post. The ironic part is just as the celebration of bacon is beginning, I’m taking steps to move toward a more vegetarian diet, eliminating not only bacon, but all meats and dairy products from my diet.
So consider this my farewell to bacon. We’ve had a great run, but it’s time for me to move on. And you can look at it this way … that leaves more bacon for the rest of you. :-)
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