My personal theory is that bacon is like cookies. When I was a kid, bacon was something that came out maybe once a week for a Sat/Sun breakfast and we’d each get 2-3 strips and that was it. It was plenty good, and we would have liked to have more but it was an occasional treat.
You know when you’re a kid and you decide that when you grow up, you’re going to have ice cream and cookies for every meal? I think that a lot of people took that childhood dream and wish-fulfillment to fruition with bacon.
Anyway, I still like bacon well enough but I’m not obsessed with it and have no desire to see or eat anything bacon flavored besides strips of pig.
Bacon’s yummy, but I don’t eat it constantly. Besides, it’s a pain in the ass to cook. (Mostly because you have all that grease to deal with). If I want a sandwich with bacon, I’ll usually just use bacon bits.
I like a good BLT, or a bacon cheeseburger, or whatever. But I’m not like OMG MUST HAVE BACON NOW!!!
(If you don’t like PEANUT BUTTER, however, you’re a freak of nature)
Not only do I not understand the current bacon craze, I don’t understand what’s supposed to be appealing about strips of meat laden with salt and fat. Can’t stand the stuff.
Ditto. I like bacon fine. In the right places, bacon is great. Fantastic, even. But the idea that everything is improved by the addition of bacon is utterly bizarre to me.
yeah, ditto, +1, this, yadda. i like bacon quite a bit, nice and crispy (no one makes it like my mom) but i also don’t get the bacon bacon everywhere craze.
Bacon is great for breakfast and very good in certain dishes - in a quiche, on certain types of sandwiches, and so on. But I also do not get the Cult of Bacon.
Bacon is good, chocolate is good, but neither one of them improves the flavor of everything else they touch. (And it should go without saying that they should never, ever, ever be eaten in the same mouthful.)
Isn’t the fetish just a meme? Sure, I love the stuff, but isn’t everyone exaggerating when they talk about it all the time?
Also, it’s quick to cook if you don’t mind the microwave version. And the grease is all in a bowl. I make it for my sister (I’m in charge of breakfast.) when we don’t have sausage, as she is allergic to eggs.
I haven’t had bacon in nearly 20 years. But I have a group of friends who are fully on board with the bacon meme and practice what they preach. Any gathering turns into a bacon fest and their New Years party involves more than a pound of bacon per person.
I have fond memories of bacon but I don’t get it either b
The bacon craze is indeed slightly over the top, though I don’t really find it annoying. Bacon IS good, afterall.
But this…
…just goes to show that there are times when there is truly no bridging the gap. I mean how can a strip of meat laden with salt and fat NOT be appealing? To me it’s like saying you hate ice cream, puppies or rainbows :D.
Oh, I like some bacon. I like it a little chewier than one generally finds in restaurants, but of course at home that’s not trouble. But I don’t LOVE it, and at its best, it’s significantly inferior to even average sausage.
The cultural natch meme is OTT, but if I had to lay in stores for a long winter, I’d want bacon over sausage – a little goes a long way for flavoring.
Baconnaise is gross – I bought some for laffs and ended up giving it to my father, thinking he’d find it amusing. I believe he (or his “SO,” my mother) threw it out. But she’ll do that – when they let me crash for a few months when I moved to Portland, she threw out a 1lb bag of yeast of mine because it was “expired.” It was then that we had the “proofing” talk. And also about the way I make bread, but she wouldn’t have any of it. Even bottled water doesn’t stay beyond expiry in “her” domain (she’s not even the cook – just like the super of the cooks in their house, the kitchen manager, I suppose). She also hid my KitchenAid paddle, for some reason, and I didn’t get it back until a few months ago during another OCD binge of hers.
It’s still a pain, because you have to make sure you don’t over cook it – my mother likes her’s CRISPY, as in burnt. I like it as it’s made in restaurants – nice and tender, and plenty juicy.
Besides, when I first get up, the heaviest thing I’ll eat is a donut or a roll. For breakfast, I’m a yogurt and banana kind of gal. I can’t eat really heavy first thing in the morning. Bacon and eggs and sausage is too much for me – a few hours later, then I’ll have that. (Brunch is cool)