# Am I alone in being underwhelmed by bacon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016 "2011-10-08T18:19:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/1 "2011-10-08T18:19:05Z")
I don’t dislike bacon. Really I don’t. It’s reasonably tasty. But it’s never, ever my first choice for a breakfast meat, and adding it to hamburgers and other sandwiches seems an utter waste of effort. In short, I simply do not understand the passion of some Dopers’ love of bacon. Gimme a good, thick, juicy How weird am I? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/2 "2011-10-08T18:25:31Z")
I don’t care for breakfast meats in general. I prefer bacon to sausage, but don’t particularly care for either, and breakfast hams are too salty. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/3 "2011-10-08T18:31:16Z")
I’d say you’re in the minority, at least on this board. I’m like the dog in the Beggin’ Strips commercial, only for real bacon. Give it to me for breakfast, in a sammitch, or on a cheeseburger. The more bacon, the better. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/4 "2011-10-08T18:47:17Z")
I’d say you’re moderately weird. I prefer sausages to bacon for breakfast. But not adding it to sandwiches? A BLAT wouldn’t be the same without it! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/5 "2011-10-08T18:48:44Z")
Give you a good, thick, juicy how weird are you? What is that, code? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/6 "2011-10-08T18:51:53Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Give you a good, thick, juicy how weird are you? What is that, code? > > 😃 Silence, Canadian! I somehow edited out “piece of sausage or ham.” I blame Ottawa. ---
**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/7 "2011-10-08T18:53:19Z")
Bacon is alright when I cook it myself, but restaurants almost always do it poorly. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/8 "2011-10-08T19:01:56Z")
Bacon is okay, but its almost fetishistic elevation as a topic of pop culture puzzles me. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/9 "2011-10-08T19:08:28Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Bacon is okay, but its almost fetishistic elevation as a topic of pop culture puzzles me. Yeah, this. I don’t hate bacon, but I only really _like_ it in a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit. I won’t eat it as a side for any other breakfast food, and I feel puzzled when people talk about it like eating it is the next best thing to an orgasm. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/10 "2011-10-08T19:21:37Z")
I had to go with the second one. Even with the disclaimer, I couldn’t say you were normal. That’s just too much of an insult. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/11 "2011-10-08T19:24:52Z")
Bacon’s all right, wouldn’t want to live in a world without it, but (probably because I’ve caught a dodgy rasher once or twice too often), I’m more likely to select sausage when I eat breakfast out. Or Spam if they have it, and corned beef hash often enough to not feel deprived (and infrequently enough that it doesn’t spoil me). ETA: I voted for the last option, largely because I’m predisposed to think of you as a wise man anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/12 "2011-10-08T19:28:40Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Bacon is okay, but its almost fetishistic elevation as a topic of pop culture puzzles me. Same. I like bacon a lot. With scrambled eggs, on burgers, a BLT, it’s got it’s uses and it’s fantastic in those uses. Bacon salt? I don’t get it. Baconaisse? Gross, WTF? Not everything is improved with bacon and I’m a bit mystified by the perception of some that it’s some sort of food panacea. It’s like a food turned meme and it’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/13 "2011-10-08T19:32:47Z")
I avoid bacon because it’s greasy and it doesn’t taste all that good to me. We were out to dinner the other night and I guess I screwed up by not reading the menu carefully, because my salad showed up covered in bacon. Fortunately, I was able to scrape most of it off. I don’t get the manic obsession with the stuff. Each to his own, I guess… ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/14 "2011-10-08T20:14:15Z")
Piggy, Piggy, it’s the belly. Wiggly, Wiggly, Pork Jelly. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/15 "2011-10-08T20:26:04Z")
> [@Terraplane](#): > > Bacon salt? I don’t get it. I use bacon salt on baked potatoes. It gives a little bacon flavor without the millions of fatty bacon calories. I agree about the Baconnaise being weird, though. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/16 "2011-10-08T20:56:49Z")
I’ve never been a to-die-for bacon fan. Or sausage, unless I’m having breakfast away from home. Truth to tell, I’ve never been a big pork fan. Besides, I hate, hate, hate salty things. I’ll have potato chips every once in a while, but otherwise, ewwwww. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/17 "2011-10-08T21:18:36Z")
I’m indifferent to bacon. It’s too greasy for me to love it, and I find the stringy texture it can get on a sandwich extremely offputting. ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/18 "2011-10-08T21:20:50Z")
The occasional strip of bacon is ok, I guess. I usually take it off any hamburger or sandwich I eat though. I don’t like BLT’s, either. Ugh. And the smell of stale bacon grease. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/19 "2011-10-08T21:33:16Z")
Call me a baconista. I love bacon. I love everything and anything that comes from the noble pig but bacon most of all. Bacon burger, yes. Cobb salad with real bacon bits, yes. Bacon chocolate, amazing. When I die wrap me in bacon. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016/20 "2011-10-09T00:39:16Z")
That’s OK, more for the rest of us. Bacon is _not_ a perfect food. But it’s still pretty darned good. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-being-underwhelmed-by-bacon/599016.md?page=2)