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.
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!
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.