# I threw away bacon today. . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445 "2010-06-16T17:53:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/1 "2010-06-16T17:53:50Z")
. . .and I’m so ashamed. Who knew that fenugreek + bacon = FAIL? It was so good on the sauteed chicken the other night, and it’s supposed to be a winner with roast pork. But on bacon, it develops a nasty, bitter flavor. Must be the nitrites or whateve curing substance they use in the bacon, but it was inedible. Never thought I would see the day when bacon would not be my friend. I need some quiet time now. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/2 "2010-06-16T18:00:38Z")
I am beyond sad. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/3 "2010-06-16T18:05:20Z")
I’m am saddened to learn of your loss. :eek: They say that there are worse things than death, surely this is one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/4 "2010-06-16T18:05:54Z")
I think you should go sit in the corner and think about what you did and pray for your soul. But your going to hell can be a silver lining for the rest of us. Maybe we can all share recipes that make bacon taste bad to save the lives of future bacon from being tossed out due to ignorance. My contribution: Asparagus is a dirty filthy whore of a plant but one day the TV, which usually doesn’t lie to me, said that if you cook asparagus wrapped in bacon it tastes yummy. So I tried it. It didn’t make the asparagus taste better it made the bacon taste worse so I had to throw the child of satan away. After that I said my Hail Mary’s and prayed for repentance. I only hope the All Mighty will show mercy on me. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/5 "2010-06-16T18:23:47Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > I think you should go sit in the corner and think about what you did and pray for your soul. > > But your going to hell can be a silver lining for the rest of us. Maybe we can all share recipes that make bacon taste bad to save the lives of future bacon from being tossed out due to ignorance. > > My contribution: > > Asparagus is a dirty filthy whore of a plant but one day the TV, which usually doesn’t lie to me, said that if you cook asparagus wrapped in bacon it tastes yummy. So I tried it. It didn’t make the asparagus taste better it made the bacon taste worse so I had to throw the child of satan away. After that I said my Hail Mary’s and prayed for repentance. I only hope the All Mighty will show mercy on me. I’m volunteering in a research library today, so sudden snorts of laughter are generally frowned upon. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/6 "2010-06-16T18:24:25Z")
Yes bacon is the perfect food but it can only do so much for other foods. It can take other meats that extra distance, from good to great, and it can turn neutral vegetables like lettuce into actual food. But please folks, trying to make bacon itself taste better by messing with the seasoning is just plain hubris. If it didn’t already taste perfect it wouldn’t have been labeled BACON. I see bacon wrapped asparagus sometimes. How bad does something have to taste before a chef says to himself: maybe I can get someone to eat it if I wrap it in bacon. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/7 "2010-06-16T18:34:55Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > My contribution: Disparage not thy asparagus, for it is divine. But this one time? In a Spokane airport bar? I was hanging out with my sister, brother, and sister-in-law. My brother wouldn’t let me order a drink. Instead he whispered my drink to the waitress. What she brought me was a glass of beer… …and tomato juice. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/8 "2010-06-16T18:40:47Z")
NOT THE BACON! _hides underneath the desk in the fetal position, and prays for a savior to come_ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/9 "2010-06-16T18:44:38Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > …beer… […] …and tomato juice. Don’t speak ill of the Red Eye, for it’s a perfectly acceptable way to get through beer that you might otherwise feel bad about drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/10 "2010-06-16T18:45:20Z")
[A picture worth a thousand words.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/SgZg1pAzYfgipj10fzIXFoKBo1_500.jpg) Safe for work (and libraries). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/11 "2010-06-16T18:51:33Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > Don’t speak ill of the Red Eye, for it’s a perfectly acceptable way to get through beer that you might otherwise feel bad about drinking. It’s not the beer that I felt bad about drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/12 "2010-06-16T19:00:44Z")
I bought bacon today, so I have redeemed the OP. The universe is in balance again. Whew. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/13 "2010-06-16T19:18:53Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > Don’t speak ill of the Red Eye, for it’s a perfectly acceptable way to get through beer that you might otherwise feel bad about drinking. Bartending in Kansas, I didn’t believe them the first time someone ordered this (a red beer). I had to get a second opinion and still though it was a joke until I got the money and saw him drink it. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/14 "2010-06-16T19:28:40Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I bought bacon today, so I have redeemed the OP. The universe is in balance again. > > Whew. zomg - ty ty ty! I was so scared there for a while.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/15 "2010-06-16T19:50:19Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Disparage not thy asparagus, for it is divine. I can’t say it’s all that awesome in [beer](http://www.rightbrainbrewery.com/pages.php?tabid=2&pageid=129&title=Empire+Spear+Beer), though. Admittedly I tasted a lot more of the “fire roasted” part than the “asparagus” part, so it tasted more like a lightly lemony [rauchbier](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rauchbier) with some unidentified herbal background to it than “omg asparagus?!” beer. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/16 "2010-06-16T19:53:05Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Bartending in Kansas, I didn’t believe them the first time someone ordered this (a red beer). I had to get a second opinion and still though it was a joke until I got the money and saw him drink it. It’s a Bloody Mary with beer. What’s so strange about that? At least one major US brewer actually cans the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/17 "2010-06-16T19:54:44Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > Don’t speak ill of the Red Eye, for it’s a perfectly acceptable way to get through beer that you might otherwise feel bad about drinking. Add a little hot sauce and I call it an _Ojo Rojo_. **shiftless** : normally, a little pepper is all I add. Occasionally chili spices when making breakfast burritos. Lesson learned. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/18 "2010-06-16T19:56:57Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Disparage not thy asparagus, for it is divine. > > But this one time? In a Spokane airport bar? > > I was hanging out with my sister, brother, and sister-in-law. My brother wouldn’t let me order a drink. Instead he whispered my drink to the waitress. What she brought me was a glass of beer… > > …and tomato juice. Wuss. Where is your sense of adventure? I LOVE beer and tomato juice. It’s suppose to be served with pepper on top so maybe you missed out on the proper taste. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/19 "2010-06-16T21:09:15Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > Wuss. Where is your sense of adventure? I LOVE beer and tomato juice. It’s suppose to be served with pepper on top so maybe you missed out on the proper taste. … and Worcestershire, hot sauce, and lime – well, if you’re going the michelada route (or at least the tomato-juice variation of the michelada.) Bacon is fine, but I fail to understand the near religious devotion to this cured foodstuff. Cheese and sausage are far better than bacon. Now to quickly exit the thread before a torch-wielding mob strings me up. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445/20 "2010-06-16T21:13:15Z")
I have not even bothered to read the thread after seeing the title. A poster named “Chefguy” throwing away bacon? Outrageous. Next thing you know, dogs will start falling from the sky like rain. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-threw-away-bacon-today/543445.md?page=2)