# Are we done with bacon?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 19, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632 "2010-02-19T15:44:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/1 "2010-02-19T15:44:46Z")
There was the Bacon Pig. There was the Bacon Explosion. And of course, Bacon Salt.
Haven’t heard much lately. Has Bacon Mania run its course?
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/2 "2010-02-19T15:47:32Z")
Hush yo’ mouf, boy!
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/3 "2010-02-19T15:51:51Z")
We _were_. Until you brought it up.
😃
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/4 "2010-02-19T15:52:07Z")
Dunno; have y’all had [Chicken Fried Bacon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_fried_bacon)?
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### Author:  [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/5 "2010-02-19T15:56:52Z")
> [@](#):
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> “They’ve taken fat, they’ve double-coated it in fat, they’ve fried it in more fat, and then they’ve served it with a side order of fat.”
Wow, that sounds amazing!
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/6 "2010-02-19T16:05:21Z")
I just watched Jim Gaffigan’s bacon routine to get me psyched up again.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/7 "2010-02-19T16:06:55Z")
The NPR show [Studio 360](http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2010/02/12) just had a contest asking listeners to “Re-design Valentines for Modern Romance”. **The winning entry was a boquet of flowers made from bacon**. The guest author/judge Elizabeth Gilbert said, “Nothing can compete with a bacon boquet.”
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### Author:  [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/8 "2010-02-19T16:33:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> There was the Bacon Pig. There was the Bacon Explosion. And of course, Bacon Salt.
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> Haven’t heard much lately. Has Bacon Mania run its course?
Two words:
Bacon Chocolate.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…bacon…
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### Author:  [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/9 "2010-02-19T16:35:20Z")
Seeing as I just made bacon-wrapped pork chops a couple nights ago I will say no, no we are not done with bacon.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/10 "2010-02-19T16:40:35Z")
You know, local meme aside and all, I actually bought some bacon salt, and the stuff is gross. It goes with nothing, and it tastes about as much like bacon (or salt, for that matter), as igneous rock does.
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### Author:  [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/11 "2010-02-19T16:42:04Z")
Oh no! In the latest issue of the Food Network Magazine, there is mention of edible bacon grease candles–I must have them! You light them and drizzle the bacon fat on your food as a condiment. They’re available @ David Burke’s Primehouse in Chicago (616 N. Rush),$10 for two. I’m ordering some now.
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### Author:  [@TheFifthYear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFifthYear)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/12 "2010-02-19T17:09:07Z")
> [@Cisco](#):
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> You know, local meme aside and all, I actually bought some bacon salt, and the stuff is gross. It goes with nothing, and it tastes about as much like bacon (or salt, for that matter), as igneous rock does.
Couldn’t agree more. Tastes nothing like bacon. It just tasted awful.
That said, the bacon thing is still going. Just the other day I went to a new restaurant in my neighborhood serving bacon-fat popcorn as an appetizer. Yep, popcorn popped in bacon fat with bacon and sage mixed in. Pretty good.
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/13 "2010-02-19T17:53:25Z")
I cower in fear at the thought of bacon-flavored sugar.
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### Author:  [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/14 "2010-02-19T18:00:35Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#):
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> I cower in fear at the thought of bacon-flavored sugar.
how about Candied Bacon?
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### Author:  [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/15 "2010-02-19T18:12:18Z")
I have, in the past week, enjoyed not one, but two smokehouse burgers at Chili’s (don’t judge me; it’s very convenient to my most convenient movie theater), both of which were adorned with not one, not two, not three, but four strips of not single-thick, not double-thick, but triple-thick bacon.
Mmm.
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### Author:  [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/16 "2010-02-19T18:12:39Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#):
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> I cower in fear at the thought of bacon-flavored sugar.
how about Candied Bacon?
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/17 "2010-02-19T18:39:22Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> There was the Bacon Pig. There was the Bacon Explosion. And of course, Bacon Salt.
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> Haven’t heard much lately. Has Bacon Mania run its course?
I sure as hell hope so. I mean, I love bacon and all, but the bacon mania was annoying and went on for about a year too long. Bacon does not need to be in _everything_.
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/18 "2010-02-19T18:47:52Z")
So when bacon _does_ run its course, what’s next?
I’m thinking . . . I always want it to be cheese. Maybe cream cheese. Or garlic.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/19 "2010-02-19T18:49:09Z")
> [@hellpaso](#):
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> Oh no! In the latest issue of the Food Network Magazine, there is mention of edible bacon grease candles–I must have them! You light them and drizzle the bacon fat on your food as a condiment. They’re available @ David Burke’s Primehouse in Chicago (616 N. Rush),$10 for two. I’m ordering some now.
Hey, that place is across the street from my office! That sounds _great_!
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### Author:  [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-done-with-bacon/529632/20 "2010-02-19T19:12:52Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#):
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> So when bacon _does_ run its course, what’s next?
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> I’m thinking . . . I always want it to be cheese. Maybe cream cheese. Or garlic.
[Boursin](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Boursin.jpg)!
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