# I'm eating bacon! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2005, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698 "2005-04-29T12:02:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/21 "2005-04-29T17:42:06Z")
Bacon should be slightly crispy and slightly soft at the same time for maximum bacony goodness. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/22 "2005-04-29T17:51:18Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > Bacon should be slightly crispy and slightly soft at the same time for maximum bacony goodness. Exactly! That’s how I like my bacon too! I hate bacon that is so hard it shatters. There’s no juice, no nothing. You might as well eat burnt cardboard! ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/23 "2005-04-29T22:58:52Z")
I like it with crisp bits and chewy bits both. Anyone else buy their bacon as a seven pound slab o’smoky pork goodness or is it just me? Bacon, bacon, bacon! ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/24 "2005-04-30T00:22:47Z")
Good news! Even vegetarians can eat bacon now. The American Diabetes Association classifies bacon as a “fat”. Bacon up! ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/25 "2005-05-01T22:26:34Z")
Bacon Gooood! ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/26 "2005-05-01T22:32:26Z")
Bacon is part of one of my two favorite hangover breakfasts, the Hangover Omelet. It consists of several strips of bacon, several eggs and a handful of cheddar cheese. Something about a breakfast consisting entirely of congealed grease always makes me happy on the day after a drinking binge. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/27 "2005-05-01T22:49:32Z")
Bacon, truly the Food of the Gods. Well, MY Gods, anyways. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/28 "2005-05-02T02:01:36Z")
Yes, BACON! Food of the gods. And if you fry and baste eggs in the bacon grease you double your fun! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/29 "2005-05-02T13:22:15Z")
I love the smell of bacon cooking. The annoying part is that I hate the taste. Annoying AND strange. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/30 "2005-05-02T13:53:25Z")
::drool:: Stoppit. All of you! I want bacon now, but I’m at work and it’s nearly midnight, so I can’t even get some on the way home. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/31 "2005-05-02T14:14:58Z")
> [@Sierra Indigo](#): > > ::drool:: Stoppit. All of you! I want bacon now, but I’m at work and it’s nearly midnight, so I can’t even get some on the way home. Denny’s my friend, follow the yellow light and ye shall be saved… ---
**Author:** ![pipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c2a13f/32.png) [@pipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pipper)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/32 "2005-05-02T14:17:14Z")
mmmmmmm bacon… and the thicker the better. For the bestest of all bacon experiences, you’ve got to find a butcher shop that makes their own bacon. It turns out the stuff you buy in the store is pumped full of water to increase the weight. The butcher shop bacon tastes much better and it hardly splatters while cooking because no water is released! For Chicagoans, Paulina meat market has some great bacon! ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/33 "2005-05-02T14:29:52Z")
**pipper** , I’ll have to try the one at Paulina, but I’ve always gotten mine from Geperth’s on Halsted, yummilicious. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/34 "2005-05-02T14:40:53Z")
> [@chique](#): > > I used to work with a Muslim from Guinea who was kinda shaky on the whole don’t drink/don’t smoke/don’t screw around edicts but firmly stuck to the don’t eat pork bit. > > Until he came here and smelled bacon cooking for the first time. As he put it, “There’s no way that something that smells that good can be that bad.” > > Fortunately, someone introduced him to turkey bacon before he damned his soul to hell. One of my dorm-mates was a Muslim from Bangladesh, and he always cursed us out whenever we made bacon; he ate Sizzlean (sp?). Until we came home from a party to the smell of bacon cooking. His whole outlook was “Just **LOOK** at what you assholes made me do!” Mmmmmmm… bacon… ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/35 "2005-05-02T14:54:38Z")
It’s almost time for lunch. Hey, a BLT sounds good! Where can I get a good BLT? Bacon, bacon! And it has to be crispy–I can’t stand chewy bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/36 "2005-05-02T15:07:49Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > _Crispy_ bacon? That, my friend, is a sin against nature. Bacon should just barely be cooked…in fact, just put the bacon next to the stove, that’s perfect. > [sub]crispy bacon, of the ways…grumble grumble…[/sub] I like mine cooked, but rubbery. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/37 "2005-05-02T15:40:25Z")
I’m another for the crispy-and-chewy doneness. But I like mine sliced so thick you could paint a face on it and name it “Plank”. Mmmmm… bacon ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/38 "2005-05-02T16:01:16Z")
I like bacon that’s been fried until it snaps in half when you breathe on it. Bacon and eggs and hot buttered toast, mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/39 "2005-05-02T16:06:31Z")
Crispy, chewy bacon, scrambled eggs, hash browns, a tall cold glass of milk… Now I want to rewind back in time and re-have breakfast today. Where’s the Time Machine when you _really_ need it? ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698/40 "2005-05-02T22:02:09Z")
Bacon: Food of the Gods. My wife says she finally figured me out when she dabbed a strip of bacon behind her ears. Nine months later, we welcomed our firstborn. Favorite way to eat it: BLTA’s–Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato . . . and Avocado. Sweet mother of God, there is no finer food on this earth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-bacon/301698.md?page=3)