# Bacon Salt Cures Soldiers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 26, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947 "2008-04-26T05:40:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/1 "2008-04-26T05:40:14Z")
[More proof](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/360684_bacon26.html) that bacon salt is this era’s greatest accomplishment.
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### Author:  [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/2 "2008-04-26T05:51:35Z")
Bacon and bacon derived products, is there anything they can’t do?
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### Author:  [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/3 "2008-04-26T05:56:25Z")
> [@the news article](#):
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> Customers have sprung up across the globe, especially in the U.S., Britain, Canada and Denmark. But Bacon Salt is also in demand in some nations, including Israel and Saudi Arabia, where religion forbids pork consumption.
All places with decent collections of Dopers. Co-incidence?
_I think not!_
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/4 "2008-04-26T06:13:40Z")
Who’s the Doper (I presume) in St Louis who founded the Church of Holy Bacon Salt? I must make a pilgrimage to kiss their ring.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/5 "2008-04-26T07:05:59Z")
[QUOTE=Leviosaurus]
Bacon Salt Cures Soldiers
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I must admit, I saw this title and immediately thought, “Is that so the soldiers will be edible longer ?”
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### Author:  [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/6 "2008-04-26T07:10:07Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs]
I must admit, I saw this title and immediately thought, “Is that so the soldiers will be edible longer ?”
[/QUOTE]
I’m actually surprised anyone replied to the thread at all. Truly a testament to the awesome power of Bacon Salt.
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/7 "2008-04-26T08:27:59Z")
I was an atheist, but on further reflection I realize that Bacon Salt proves the existence of a benevolent god.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2008, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/8 "2008-04-26T09:17:48Z")
[QUOTE=CairoCarol]
I was an atheist, but on further reflection I realize that Bacon Salt proves the existence of a benevolent god.
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No. That’s beer, Ben Franklin said so! Bacon salt is proof that God likes loopholes (remember, it’s kosher)! 😃
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### Author:  [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/9 "2008-04-28T21:00:57Z")
Hee! I came in to post this in MPSIMS, but got beaten to the punch. This is awesome.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/10 "2008-04-28T21:12:49Z")
Bacon salt is kosher?
:: head explodes ::
(Is it halal?)
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### Author:  [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/11 "2008-04-28T21:28:18Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
Bacon salt is kosher?
:: head explodes ::
[/QUOTE]
Well, it’s not kosher after _that_.
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### Author:  [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/12 "2008-04-28T21:32:59Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
Bacon salt is kosher?
:: head explodes ::
(Is it halal?)
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And Vegan too. 😃
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/13 "2008-04-28T21:35:14Z")
They should set it up so you can purchase bacon salt for the troops.
OH and the photo of Bacon Salt employee Sarah mummy cling wrapped makes me feel funny in my pants.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/14 "2008-04-28T21:38:36Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
No. That’s beer, Ben Franklin said so!
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No, Franklin said something like it [about wine, not beer](http://www.beerinfood.com/Franklin.html):
> [@](#):
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> Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/15 "2008-04-28T21:48:17Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs]
I must admit, I saw this title and immediately thought, “Is that so the soldiers will be edible longer ?”
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No joke, on the list of upcoming kitchen experiments is the use of Bacon Salt as a curing agent.
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### Author:  [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-cures-soldiers/446947/16 "2008-04-28T21:58:34Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
No joke, on the list of upcoming kitchen experiments is the use of Bacon Salt as a curing agent.
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You mean… we can have bacon cured with Bacon Salt?
::faints