I like a good, crisp piece of bacon. It’s pretty tasty, no doubt, but I don’t love it. I do love a BLT, what with all the mayo, and juicy tomatoes, crisp lettuce, and toast. But the whole rage lately about bacon is totally lost on me. Chocolate covered bacon? Meh. Bacon covered chocolate? Double meh. Bacon covered bacon? I just don’t get it. What the heck is up with the bacon love?
It has a lot of fat. Fat=flavor. I love bacon, but I don’t get all ga-ga over it either.
For truly divine fat consumption, you have to eat seared foie gras. It’s the baconator on steroids.
Interesting post+username combo.
“You don’t know the POWER of the Dark Side of the Food! Join us–together we will eat delicious foie gras together! And then have massive heart attacks!”
Why do you hate America?
This one place that made really great grilled cheeses would make them with bacon and I ate it then. In general, though, I don’t really care either way. It’s good but not like, chocolate good.
Ha, yes. Foie gras is only evil in the sense that it is too much of everything, kind of like Antonio Banderas being “too sexy” in the SNL skits.
Well prepared foie gras is one of the culminations of gastronomic ecstasy.
The fact that many find it’s production reprehensible only adds flavor!
Oh god I am SO sorry.
Is there any hope?
Every day science is coming up with new breakthroughs,so perhaps one day…
Your poor family,how did they take it when you broke it to them ?
I love bacon. I love maple syrup. I love chocolate. However, I don’t really care for syrup or chocolate on my bacon.
Other than that…I’m so sorry that you don’t enjoy bacon to the fullest. If you’ve only eaten low sodium bacon, turkey bacon, or beef bacon, or veggie bacon…then you haven’t eaten bacon. Also, bacon, like everything else, comes in different grades, from meh to awesome.
I do hope you’re eating those BLTs with homegrown tomatoes.
Am I the only one who thought FoieGrasIsEvil’s name was a reference to the inhumane way in which the geese are force-fed?
No, I also thought that name was referring to the force-feeding of geese.
No, I thought so too. To be fair, though, he’s never actually said he believed evil was a bad thing; we all just kind of assumed.
I have a little locally owned butcher shop near me that sells bacon that I would challenge ANYONE to not go orgasmic over. It’s thick cut, maple smoked and absolutely the food of the gods. I wish that I could host a Doper BaconFest and let you all sample it.
I’m pretty Rand Rover-ish when it comes to food. In other words, I could give a crap about how the ducks or geese are treated. They are just dumb birds to me.
It is evil because it’s too irresistably yummy, and because since it’s prohibitively expensive, I can hardly ever afford any.
I like bacon as a garnish (crumbled on a salad or baked potato) or an accent (wrapped around a piece of shrimp or chicken or on top of a cheeseburger), but as a stand alone piece of meat, it does absolutely nothing for me at all. Mrs. AG loves the stuff so she always gets my strips during breakfast.
I, too, have wondered what the fuss is about. Mind you, I’m going to keep wondering, because I keep kosher. No bacon for me.
It seems like in the last two years there has been an upswing in bacon love… I don’t get it.
Sure I like thick slabs of premium bacon but I’m not going to lose my shit over ‘bacon infuse -etc.’
I blog about breakfast food so I deal with a lot of bacon issues. 
I keep hearing these radio ads recently for a bacon brand called “Rite Brand Bacon” (or maybe its “Right”). The ads feature a man talking to a shrink about his obsession with bacon, how he steals his daughter’s Rite Brand Bacon and blames the dog, keeps a few strips as backup in his wallet, etc. Anyone heard these?
It’s mildly amusing, just as this whole recent love-fest regarding bacon on the Dope has been.
I guess you’ve never tried dipping your bacon in maple syrup, then. Yum!
I’m probably the only one here that thinks this but,
I hate bacon.
The smell, taste, and texture all grosses me out.