Oh, Bacon

[Wink Holliday]

I'm a "flexitarian," which, for me, means that I only eat meat from animals that have lived natural lives: no factory farming, no feedlots, etc. As a result of my personal standards, I am pretty much a vegetarian.
I never ate bacon every day. When I was brunching regularly with friends, I'd maybe have it once a week. With a touch of maple syrup, please. But now that I can't have it at all, I crave it! My boy bought me a bacon-scented air freshener for my car (I refuse to take it out of the plastic wrapper) and we shared a Mo's Bacon Bar* from Vosges as a rare treat. I even found a recipe online for candied bacon, which I want to make when I find some happy-pig bacon! My favorite bacon, hands down, was Nueske's from Wisconsin. Lucky for me, I haven't been in Wisconsin since I went veggie, so I haven't been tempted. :)

What's your bacon story? Poppy? The floor is yours. :)


*That's Mo as in Mo Frechette from Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, MI... and the bacon is Nueske's!

[Sara Sundae]

Some little mom 'n pop place in Showlow, AZ has this applewood smoked bacon, its amazing, I haven't had it since i was a kid though :(

[Wink Holliday]

Does anyone here speak Anguish? ;)

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[Poppy Fields]

I'm stumped! Had to google "anguish", but still have no clue as to translation. Wink, you made my brains owie.

Wink Holliday said:

Does anyone here speak Anguish? ;)

Effervescent further ACHE, dare wooden bather CHECKING.
Effervescent further PEG, way wooden heifer BECKING!

[Wink Holliday]

This thread is a clue. Keep trying, you'll get it.

Poppy Fields said:

I'm stumped! Had to google "anguish", but still have no clue as to translation. Wink, you made my brains owie.

Wink Holliday said:

Does anyone here speak Anguish? ;)

Effervescent further ACHE, dare wooden bather CHECKING.
Effervescent further PEG, way wooden heifer BECKING!

[Tea Martini]

Two things in the past two days have reminded me you you, Wink, and this blog... First, on of the registered Dietitians at my school who teaches a class told us about chocolate chip cookies sprinkled with BACON inside!!! (yes. really.) and then theres this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/dining/28bacon.html?no_interstitial

wow.

[Betty Sue]

"If photoshopping your newborn baby onto a bacon winged unicorn is wrong, then I just don't want to know what's right."

[Poppy Fields]

This. THIS. It's too much.
It's things like this that make me believe in a just and loving Universe :D

Betty Sue said:

"If photoshopping your newborn baby onto a bacon winged unicorn is wrong, then I just don't want to know what's right."

[Poppy Fields]

Bacon comes from the Bacon Bush. I refuse to believe otherwise.

' Pinup de Luxe ' said:

MMMmm, i saw a programm on pig farming the other day and i must that i was horrified! Iam always very careful with the meat i buy but i hadnt realized how atrocious the ordeal is for the little piggies!
Saying that i am not prepared yet to give it up but will definately only be bying my bacon from 'pig friendly' farms.... ;-)

[Wink Holliday]

I bought myself some Bacon Salt yesterday! Now, to put it on everything.

[Poppy Fields]

Is it as wondrous and magical and heavenly as I imagine??? (I'll msg you the exact phrase I want to use...)

No calories, no fat = hooray! The sodium is killer though :( Aaaaah, fcuk it.
BACONNAISE!
I really like the whole campaign they've put together: bacon punches straight to the mouth, good for flavouring your arm etc. I'll buy from them based on humour alone :)

Wink Holliday said:

I bought myself some Bacon Salt yesterday! Now, to put it on everything.

[Lil_Bit {★}]

OH MY GAWD proof that bacon on anything taste better.....If French Fries were great to begin with why not add BACON to them RIGHT..........RIGHT! well I just had me some Bacon Avocado fries and Holly Martha I thought i was going to die from sheer pleasure!

[Poppy Fields]

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