bacon.

[WILLIAMS5232]

So I just had this video show up in my Facebook newsfeed. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy eating bacon, especially a good BLT. I like bacon and egg tacos/biscuits. I enjoy it dipped in syrup when I eat pancakes. I can eat it plain, also I like bacon bits. Really, I can't think of not liking bacon ever in my life.

I've always been one that thinks that this bacon love has been fake though. There are tons of things I prefer over bacon. I just can't wrap my head around this bacon craze that everyone seems so insistent on being a thing. I kind of always look at it as a monkey see monkey do thing. Like crawfish. Everyone "loves" crawfish so much. Until it's sitting in front of them and they eat 12 and are magically full on crawfish all of a sudden. I can personally eat them for a good solid 30-45 minutes. But i never go around expressing my love for them. Oysters is another thing. Everyone loves oysters so much but they cant eat them without cocktail sauce, ketchup, lemon juice, horseradish, and crackers. Then they swallow them without even chewing them. Then they eat 4 and they're full all of a sudden. I like fried oysters, with ketchup but i just dont see how a raw oyster can be loved by so many people. I think it's all a scam to be honest.

So when I saw this video I kind of started thinking,... Can bacon really be that good to some people. I mean this kid is still in the age of innocence where he probably feels no social peer pressure to go goo goo over bacon.

I don't know, this isnt the first time ive thought about the bacon hoax.

[patches70]

Oh, bacon love is real. You can see it in the baby in the video. That baby has just experienced a perfect storm of molecules and chemistry when heat is added to create a taste which is truly unique and pleasurable. Sure, you might prefer other things more than bacon, but you'd be hard pressed to find many who think bacon tastes terrible. You'll find people who think bacon is terrible for you, but as far as just pure taste, few would say bacon cooked properly tastes "bad". Quite the opposite actually.

The BBC said this about bacon and why it tastes so good-

"The cell membranes of the muscle tissue contain fatty acids that disintegrate during cooking to yield a bouquet of flavourful compounds like aldehydes, furans, and ketones. By themselves, some of these molecules have distinct tastes or smells — furans have a sweet, nutty, caramel-like note, aldehydes a green, grassy note, and ketones tend to be buttery — but whatever they are doing together seems to be key."

If any one of those flavor compounds were missing in bacon that baby above wouldn't have had the same reaction. Bacon is truly a wonderful taste.
Also, it's more of an American thing, or more a North American thing as the Canadians are about as batty for bacon as Americans. Bacon has also been part of the American cuisine for so long that it's a staple of the old west and times long gone. Ebenezer Cooke, a British poet wrote a poem way back in 1708 complaining that everything to eat in the colonies was bacon flavored. Heh heh.

I'm not so sure about how Europeans feel about bacon, but in North America, we love the stuff. I rarely indulge in bacon. But every once in a while, I get a pound of it, cook it up and me and the kids eat every bit of it for a breakfast with eggs toast hasbrowns and grits, the eggs of course cooked in bacon grease. We are all like little Homer Simpsons eating the stuff, with all the arguing about who gets the last strip, who got more than the other, etc etc. I've got to carefully dole the stuff out, as evenly as possible which is hard, because I'm the one cooking it so I'm so very tempted to gobble a bit of it down without them knowing. Unfortunately they hang around me like flies in a sty while I'm cooking it trying to get their own little bit extra sneak a strip when no one is looking.

Aww, good times indeed.

[jonesthecurl]

US bacon is crap.

[WILLIAMS5232]

When I was growing up we had a small hog farm, plenty of fresh bacon still on the rind. Still never became obsessed with the stuff. If anything it was the BBQ pork ribs. That's what I miss the most.

Since I do not have mqny dislikes it's hard for me to decide which food is my favorite. I order shrimp alot is all I can say. I doubt I would ever be able to seperate US bacon from NON-US bacon

[Dukasaur]

I like bacon.

I do agree with you, however, that people obsess about it too much.

It's very good, but it's not the Ultimate Point of the Universe or anything.

[tzor]

US bacon is crap.

US Bacon is not "crap."

Most US Bacon is "crap."

[Symmetry]

US bacon is crap.

US Bacon is not "crap."

Most US Bacon is "crap."

It's weird that people in the US who love bacon haven't really tried good bacon. Kind of the same with cheese really.

Most of the stuff in the UK that gets made into bacon would be made into pork chops in the US, though.

Any Brit who wants a bacon sandwich in the US will quickly despair.

[TeeGee]

So when I get to the USA, what should i ask for if I want real bacon?

[Dukasaur]

So when I get to the USA, what should i ask for if I want real bacon?

Generally they call it "Canadian Bacon."

[nietzsche]

so english bacon is just canadian bacon + american bacon?

big deal, get both.



it's like complaining they don't sell tea with milk in the US, jsut get both.

[Symmetry]

So when I get to the USA, what should i ask for if I want real bacon?

Generally they call it "Canadian Bacon."

That would be closest to real bacon, but prepare to be disappointed, Tee.

Americans don't really understand bacon. The stuff they sell in stores is barely recognisable even as streaky bacon.

It's a dying culture.

[WILLIAMS5232]

So when I get to the USA, what should i ask for if I want real bacon?

Generally they call it "Canadian Bacon."

That would be closest to real bacon, but prepare to be disappointed, Tee.

Americans don't really understand bacon. The stuff they sell in stores is barely recognisable even as streaky bacon.

It's a dying culture.

So, from what I understand, canadiqn bacon is basically what I would consider sliced ham... So when I was younger, and we would get bacon straight from the butcher, it looked like store bought bacon, only it still had a strip of the skin attached, which you could chew on but not really eat. Since it was just basically a small flavorful strip of leather.

Im confused, we hqve bacon (American), pork chops, hqm, pork ribs, so what are yall saying is bacon? Im so confused.

[jonesthecurl]

So when I get to the USA, what should i ask for if I want real bacon?

An air ticket to the UK.

[DoomYoshi]

Just go to a butcher and get bacon instead of grocery stores. Any food available at a grocery store is an inferior quality, it's far better to visit a farm for your vegetables, milk and eggs; a butcher for your meat and a baker for bread or grocery store for staple products like flour.

[riskllama]

"Canadian bacon" is back bacon, ya morons.

[riskllama]

lol @ DY for getting his flour at the grocer...
if you had any self respect, you'd be buying it from your local miller.
llama wins this thread.

[WILLIAMS5232]

I got this in my newsfeed today. I will never beilieve that the person nehind this meme actually believes that eating bacon is really a worthy being an adult credential

[DoomYoshi]

lol @ DY for getting his flour at the grocer...
if you had any self respect, you'd be buying it from your local miller.
llama wins this thread.

my local mill shut down and is an urban disgrace. the next closest mill is in either Sri Lanka or Mexico, I always get those two mixed up.

[jonesthecurl]

Just go to a butcher and get bacon instead of grocery stores. Any food available at a grocery store is an inferior quality, it's far better to visit a farm for your vegetables, milk and eggs; a butcher for your meat and a baker for bread or grocery store for staple products like flour.

It's not a question of quality: US bacon is pork belly, British bacon is another part of the animal.

[riskllama]

lol @ DY for getting his flour at the grocer...
if you had any self respect, you'd be buying it from your local miller.
llama wins this thread.

my local mill shut down and is an urban disgrace. the next closest mill is in either Sri Lanka or Mexico, I always get those two mixed up.

just buy the old lady a millstone. or, go hit up a Mennonite colony.
llama continues to win this thread.

[Dukasaur]

So when I get to the USA, what should i ask for if I want real bacon?

An air ticket to the UK.

The idea that anything in England is worth eating stretches "suspension of disbelief" to the breaking point.

[Symmetry]

So when I get to the USA, what should i ask for if I want real bacon?

An air ticket to the UK.

The idea that anything in England is worth eating stretches "suspension of disbelief" to the breaking point.

Your words, worth eating?

[tzor]

It's weird that people in the US who love bacon haven't really tried good bacon. Kind of the same with cheese really.

NYY Steak has good bacon. Just saying.

We can import cheese in the US (unlike Canada). I've got several international cheese shops around where I live.

[BoganGod]

So when I get to the USA, what should i ask for if I want real bacon?

An air ticket to the UK.

The idea that anything in England is worth eating stretches "suspension of disbelief" to the breaking point.

There is a reason why shrimping is so popular in the UK. Foot fungus and toe jam take the taste of the food out of the mouth nicely. Foot and mouth disease, invented by the british in a fetish overreach that went way too far.

[tzor]

There is a reason why shrimping is so popular in the UK. Foot fungus and toe jam take the taste of the food out of the mouth nicely. Foot and mouth disease, invented by the british in a fetish overreach that went way too far.

I don't think that explains Stinking Bishop. Then again, nothing explains Stinking Bishop.