# Bacon- Food of the gods or one-way ticket to heart attack? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 1999, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868 "1999-09-13T18:18:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 1999, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868/21 "1999-09-15T00:48:00Z")
[concerned physician mode on] Bacon is bad for you! Bad Bad Bad! Eat leafy greens and oat bran! Stop smoking and drinking, while you’re at it! [concerned phyisican mode off] Mmmm, bacon. When I finally get the chair and they ask me for my last meal order, it’ll be a stack of pancakes swimming in real butter and good up-north maple syrup, a huge pile of thick-cut country bacon, and three scrambled eggs cooked hard in the grease. Since they’ll have to revive me from the ensuing MI so they can kill me in the elecric chair, I’ll also go out in a blaze of irony. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![JBENZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@JBENZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBENZ)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 1999, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868/22 "1999-09-15T05:07:00Z")
MMMMMMMM… Thick, chewy Cape Cod White Bread, lightly toasted Slathered with mayonaise Thick sliced Cajun Bacon from Nodine’s Smokehouse Half Inch slice of fresh from the garden Big Boy Tomato Lotsa crunchy lettuce Eat three…have heartburn for days…life is good. * * * JB Lex Non Favet Delictorum Votis ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 1999, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868/23 "1999-09-15T12:51:00Z")
I LOOOOVE bacon! I cast my vote for chewy bacon, not crispy. I never buy bacon at the store though, I get the turkey bacon. it’s good, but not as good as the real stuff. I only get real bacon when I go out to eat. Up till recently, that wasn’t all that often, but now that I work the night shift, I usually end up at Denny’s afterwards. I get bacon and eggs and hash browns, and I know my arteries are clogging, but who cares! ---
**Author:** ![wireless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@wireless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wireless)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 1999, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868/24 "1999-09-15T13:13:00Z")
FYI- Wendy’s Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger (hold the mayo) makes a nice, quick, cheap ($.99!), not too artery-clogging bacon fix, IMHO. Had one the other day after leaving this thread. ---
**Author:** ![vanillanice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecc23a/32.png) [@vanillanice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanillanice)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 1999, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868/25 "1999-09-15T13:17:00Z")
Yes, I love bacon too. Why are most great-tasting foods unhealthy? ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 1999, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868/26 "1999-09-15T19:28:00Z")
Help! I’m getting a headache listening to all these arteries slamming shut! Anyone think they’ll ever make a HEALTHY Bacon what tastes good? * * * “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” -Anon ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868/27 "1999-09-16T01:08:00Z")
Bacon rules. And there is a diet that includes bacon: Dr. Atkins. Also other protein-based diets. But it shouldn’t be a major food. Also, Crips Bacon Tip: Leave the fat in the pan! In fact, save it and use it again to put fresh bacon into so that you are, in effect, deep-frying it. Contrary to what would seem to be logic, it does not add any fat to it to cook it in this way, in fact it removes the most possible, since this most effectively renders fat OUT of it, and is the best way to make sure that the bacon is evenly cooked. You chewy bacon fans are weird. And being the sick puppy I am, and fat lover, I prefer my bacon as fatty as possible. That is the “yum” in bacon: the crisp fat. Imagine completley fat-free bacon: it would be pork jerky. Yech. ## stoid * * * I am #1. Everyone else is #2 or lower. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868/28 "1999-09-16T01:12:00Z")
Actually, that should have read “Bloods Bacon Tip” Arf. ---
**Author:** ![Cumbersome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@Cumbersome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbersome)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868/29 "1999-09-16T01:27:00Z")
I agree with Satan(which is odd)…chewy bacon definately food of the gods…if I wanted crunchy pork I would buy a bag of pork rinds. * * * “Will there be another race to come along and take over for us?” ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868/30 "1999-09-16T03:14:00Z")
Pork rinds are another thread entirely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-food-of-the-gods-or-one-way-ticket-to-heart-attack/7868.md?page=1)