With the amount of bacon that we have seen on this site this year, 2006 should have been the year of the pig (2007 is actually the year of the pig). It has popped up everywhere from breakfast plates to evening cocktails. Some say that Everything Tastes Better with Bacon, but after checking out our list of the top 8 uses for bacon from the last year, you can decide for yourself if you have been Seduced by Bacon:
- Since breakfast is the most important meal of the day, why not start it off with a big bowl of Bacon cereal?
- Cereal isn't the only bacon-infused breakfast option. French toast and bacon sandwich could be a more appetizing choice if you're not the cereal type, or you could simply opt for bacon waffles. Bacon breakfast cookies will give you a bacon fix on the go.
- BLT's have much too small a ratio of bacon-to-nonbacon. The ultimate bacon sandwich or a deep-fried bacon Double Quarter Pounder are both much more meat-oriented.
- Gummy bacon isn't bacon flavored, but if you like the idea of bacon in candy, bacon caramel might be just what you're looking for
- For dessert, a generous serving of bacon ice cream is in order, and this kind actually has chunks of bacon in it, much like the bacon ice cream that Marcel mixed up on Top Chef.
- The bacon martini is not a drink for everyone. You may have to be an addict - not that we condone alcoholism or bacon-aholism - to get it down.
- You can't keep bacon in it, but the bacon wallet will help you bring home the bacon, in addition to looking like it. The only odd thing here is that the wallet is made of faux leather - couldn't they have gone for the real thing?
- Time, bacon and eggs heal all wounds, especially if you use bacon and eggs bandaids to help speed the healing process along.
- We suspect that the bacon trend may continue into next year, since we recently found out about the existence of chicken fried bacon (with gravy), which sounds like it will be an instant hit at the fried-food havens that are county fairs.
- Last, but certainly not least, we have heard that eating bacon and participating in open discussion of the pork product may be the single most important part of achieving world peace. Peace Through Pork makes a good point.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
12-13-2006 @ 1:41PM
MJ said...
Being a southern....Bacon goes good with everything but, chocolate! Save the drippings to fry cabbage or cook fresh string beans, serve with crumbled bacon on top! Even the irish as a poor man meal would have bacon and cabbage for dinner. Bacon has supported and stretched a meal like no other.And there is no substitute!! Turkey bacon????????? Get outta here!
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12-13-2006 @ 1:41PM
Greg Clow said...
Here's another one for the list - Bacon Toffee!
http://www.ethicurean.com/2006/12/10/bacon-toffee/
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12-13-2006 @ 1:41PM
heather said...
Amen.
http://www.baconunwrapped.com
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12-13-2006 @ 1:41PM
Michelle said...
Also, check out magnetic bacon strips for your fridge and angel bacon oranaments. This artist has also made bacon-themed hats!
http://www.sappymoosetree.mandyjouan.com/nonsockplush.html
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12-13-2006 @ 11:45PM
calamari said...
I dunno... sprinkle a little chopped bacon on a Reese's peanut butter cup, and I think you'd have something.
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12-19-2006 @ 10:18PM
JEANNE said...
''MY DAUGHTER SAVES HER 'BACON GREASE FOR ME., I USE IT FOR SEASONING., FRYING EGGS COOKING ., ''BUTT; PLEASE N O BACON CEREAL. NO BACON ''CANDY'' UUGGG
'' AND I'M AS SOUTHERN AS THEY GET ~~
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12-19-2006 @ 10:19PM
Big John said...
Bacon, its a pork fat thing!
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12-19-2006 @ 10:19PM
Dev said...
I love bacon, personally and the bacon band-aids are just cool. I have yet to try the ice cream though. Sounds Delish!
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12-19-2006 @ 10:20PM
Patty LAkin said...
If you eat bacon, don't your life insurance payments so up??
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12-19-2006 @ 10:20PM
Carol said...
It probabaly is the year of bacon since mad cow and the bird flu hit. Poultry and beef sales have decreased ever since and pork sales went up.
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12-19-2006 @ 10:28PM
Firechick said...
For the love of BACON, does that bacon bracelet in the photo above actually exist, and if so PLEASE tell me where I can get it!!! I, as a TRUE lover of all that is the miracle of bacon, MUST have one. Right now.
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12-19-2006 @ 10:29PM
Firechick said...
And on the topic of bacon-y goodness, in my Freshman year of college, I invented what will forever live in infamy as the "Sack-o-bacon." That's right, it was a paper sack full of bacon. And I ate it. All. Burp!
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12-19-2006 @ 11:10PM
Steven said...
HELLO! saturated fat....have you ever heard of heart attacks, that is just ridiculous
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12-19-2006 @ 11:57PM
Kevin said...
World peace? Well, I'm not sure of that. But, if we told the Muslim suicide bombers that we would have all their peices picked up by women and buried in pig skins there would be fewer, if any, suicide bombings.
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12-20-2006 @ 1:09AM
carrie said...
Read Dec Issue Rolling Stone about the pigs and the factory farms they are in. They are kept in crates, they can not turn around, they cannot see the sun they are feed tons of drugs to make them grow fast, it is disgusting. An American disgrace. Those who eat bacon are fools. It is totally unhealthy and cruel to support these farmers. IDIOTS.
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12-20-2006 @ 1:21AM
Ryan said...
We used to save bacon grease in a jar on the stove (didn't everybody in those days?). We would use it for frying eggs mostly, but also to grease pans before making Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies. The salty, slightly bacony flavor it imparted added a lovely undernote to the cookies. Mmmmmmmmmmm! And to think we switched to "healthy" hydrogenated vegetable shortening for the next 3 decades. Would have been better staying with the bacon grease -- at least I wouldn't have to worry about having to have it chipped off my arteries.
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12-20-2006 @ 1:51AM
s jones said...
Re #16, sounds to me they keep the pigs the same way as chicken. but bacon tastes better by far!!
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12-20-2006 @ 2:29AM
Len said...
Dead Doctors Don't Lie! (Look it up!) Think!!! BEFORE! you believe what you read or hear!
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12-20-2006 @ 3:21AM
George said...
Peanut butter and bacon sandwich using potato bread! Washed down with cold root beer! Nothing better this side of heaven!
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12-20-2006 @ 2:47PM
jon z said...
For the record...I was one of Marcel's teachers at the CIA and, a team of his classmates (Mike and the twins)made bacon IC with bacon Brittle ...
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