I know I’m one of those people who go around saying that bacon makes everything taste better – and it’s true! Never does a pig achieve more greatness than as a slice of bacon. It’s possible to dismiss Babe as sentimental hogwash, make faces at crackling, quote scripture and Animal Farm, make digs about cleanliness, and be horrified at its butchery. But no man can scoff at bacon because bacon transcends mere pigginess.
However the time has come to call an end to the madness. It’s one thing to serve bacon in everything from dessert to protein shakes and have Top Chef after Padma Lakshmi go crazy over it, but when it starts to become an essential ingredient of 90% of all pics posted at TiWYF and similar establishments…
The fat lady has sung and she says it’s over. I don’t want it in my cherry pie, dipped in chocolate or candied in maple syrup. Stop.
