# Another reason to question Canadian sanity. (bacon related) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787 "2016-04-21T04:15:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/1 "2016-04-21T04:15:57Z")
_The people of Canada sure love their bacon. In a recent survey conducted by Maple Leaf Foods, 43% of the respondents said they would rather have bacon than sex._ [Linkie here](https://bacontoday.com/the-people-of-canada-choose-bacon-over-sex/) WTF is wrong with the 57% who would rather screw than eat bacon? Damn insanity if you asked me. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/2 "2016-04-21T05:44:05Z")
Muslin, Jewish, don’t like bacon. More for me even if I am in the USA. Bacon and sex… mmmm. ^^ worst haiku ever. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/3 "2016-04-21T06:52:28Z")
Bacon? Or _Canadien_ bacon? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/4 "2016-04-21T07:51:05Z")
So back bacon over the beast with two backs? ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/5 "2016-04-23T01:46:38Z")
It was a survey of people who get paid to take surveys. Perhaps they are all under-fed? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/6 "2016-04-23T01:53:28Z")
I’ve always wondered what Canadians call American bacon. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/7 "2016-04-23T01:54:58Z")
I could see it being a tough choice with _real_ bacon. So I suppose people who have been craving real bacon all their lives and getting only Canadian bacon would choose the bacon. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/8 "2016-04-23T01:58:01Z")
You don’t have to beg for bacon and it’s legal to buy. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/9 "2016-04-23T03:46:24Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I’ve always wondered what Canadians call American bacon. We call bacon bacon. We call the other stuff back bacon and wonder what you think is Canadian about it. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/10 "2016-04-23T06:20:41Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > We call bacon bacon. We call the other stuff back bacon and wonder what you think is Canadian about it. This. In five foot high letters. On the “'Uge Wall” we are going to build. And make you pay for. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/11 "2016-04-23T09:18:56Z")
So… there is this craft beer pub with ‘Pig’ in it name not far from work. The same basket they use for the ‘basket of fries’ can be had full of bacon. A lot of bacon. It is really, really good. I don’t see any reason one cant have both sex and bacon, just not at the same time is my personal taste. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/12 "2016-04-23T10:42:09Z")
If a pollster comes up to you ask which you would rather have, bacon or sex, you say bacon, eh. If you have sex with the pollster, you’ll probably be having a lot less sex with your sweetie. If you have bacon instead, you serve it to your sweetie for Sunday brunch, and you’ll be having sweet sex for the next week. Don’t you folks in our southern colonies understand the benefits of bringing home the bacon? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/13 "2016-04-23T13:17:02Z")
Sex is better than bacon, eh\*? \*“Eh” literally translated: “This thing that I have said, is it not true?” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/14 "2016-04-23T15:15:06Z")
Prefer the bacon over the makin’ of it? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/15 "2016-04-23T15:31:55Z")
I have to think that there may be a problem translating Canadian to Mercan here. Perhaps ‘sex’ and ‘bacon’ mean completely different things in Canuckian just the way ‘Sorry’ and 'Nice day eh?" mean something completely different from the same sounding English words which mean “Bite me” and “This weather sucks”. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/16 "2016-04-24T16:31:01Z")
How can you have sex without bacon? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/17 "2016-04-24T16:37:59Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > How can you have sex without bacon? And how can you have bacon without sex? Pig sex is very important to the production of bacon. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/18 "2016-04-24T16:43:28Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > And how can you have bacon without sex? Pig sex is very important to the production of bacon. I don’t think I want bacon that badly. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/19 "2016-04-24T17:44:37Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > And how can you have bacon without sex? Pig sex is very important to the production of bacon. A farmer once decided he wanted to raise hogs, so he bought some stock and left them to go to it. All they did was lay around the pig pen. So he asked the farm agent about it and was told “You might need to try artificial insemination” The farmer didn’t want to admit he didn’t know what that was, and went away to try to puzzle it out. He finally decided that meant HE had to do the deed with the pigs. So he loaded them up in the truck, went out into the woods for privacy, and did it. Still, all the pigs did was lay around the pig pen. So he tried the same thing again, thinking maybe once wasn’t enough. Still, all the pigs did was lay around. One day his car broke down and his wife used the truck to go somewhere. On her return he hollered out the door “Honey, are the pigs still laying around?” “No” she called back, “but they are in the truck honking the horn!” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787/20 "2016-04-24T18:11:44Z")
A rabbi and a priest are talking. The rabbi asks the priest if he ever had sex. The priest says Yes, he did. Then he asks the rabbi if he ever tried bacon. The rabbi says yes, he did. Priest says “Hell of a lot better than sex, right?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-question-canadian-sanity-bacon-related/752787.md?page=2)