has bacon jumped the shark?
i hope so.
last year, i wrote about the launch of a bacon-flavored vodka. i called it ridiculous. i was mocked for my opinion. i still stand by it. this bacon craze has lasted longer than the pork belly one and that was over the top.
now a friend tells me about this. i know a number of people who would gladly give up their american citizenship and pledge allegiance to such a state. but when you can’t even create a catchy anthem, why would anyone flee to your pork-fat shores?
Give it up. Even after the bacon craze, which is on the wane, bacon will still be one of this country’s favorite foods. Are you really looking forward to the organ meat craze that much, anyway?
Also, bacon is pork belly. The pork belly craze happened when people realized that they could eat huge pieces of bacon that have been cooked with care. It’s the same craze. Men don’t work themselves red in the face yelling about buying and selling pork bellies for no goddamn reason.
But I agree that the bacon vodka, perfumes, neckties, tepees, etc. were a bad idea.
bacon is to pork belly what taco bell is to mexican cuisine.
I like bacon, if I buy it at the store then I try to be healthy-ish and get turkey bacon…in general I view bacon as “good”.
However….
If I get all girled up and go out, I think Mr. Bacon-breath would not be a turn-on, and what if he spilled his Bacontini on me, I’d smell like a breakfast diner all night and who knows what sort that attracts (perhaps binge drinking frat boys or picture me screaming and running down a NYC subway platform with a trail of rats behind me)…The only beverage I can imagine it might be good in would be a Bloody Mary, with breakfast/brunch, when alcohol and bacon breath might possibly be acceptable…but then I’d just have the real thing in all its crispy, crunchy, salty, smoky goodness…why liquify it?
Shandana, I’m with you. Bacon vodka = Bad idea.