What food could you see being added to just about anything and making it better? If your answer is bacon, you are not alone. Wondering why bacon has become so popular, we reached out to Kat Kinsman, managing editor of CNN’s Eatocracy blog.
“Bacon, the food, is, full-stop delicious, but so are plenty of other foods. Bacon, the concept, has taken on a life of its own.” It's shorthand, Kinsman said, for, “Hey, I’m a food freak, but I don’t take myself too seriously.”
"Pork, fat and salt are pretty much the antithesis of what any nutritionist would counsel you to eat" Kinsman said.
But, as Pete Wells quoted a bacon maker’s wife as saying in his 2003 James Beard Award-winning essay, "Captain Bacon," “And if I can't have bacon on my salad, I just don't care about it."
From a bacon-wrapped pork dish to the fan-favorite Bakon Vodka, we’ve got your craving covered with today’s Gotta Watch.
Hmmm....a CNN article about the glories of bacon....right before the start of a Christian fast. Not surprising.
Bacon is good enough tasting and bad enough for you that I'm almost willing to believe in the devil.
A BLT on rustic sourdough toast slathered with a chipotle mayo. Including thin slices of a Walla Walla sweet onion, ripe avacdo, and thin slices of sharp cheddar – preferably Tillamook.
I'm a bit verklept – discuss amongst yourselves.
I don't get the comment in the story saying pork would be on any list of things a nutritionist would suggest avoiding. Pork is actually the healthiest meat you can eat in the modern world. Less pathogens and lower incidence of food poisoning than beef or poultry. It has equal ratios of omega fats, it is raised in cleaner conditions etc.
I actually found Bacon has its own twitter page. @PieceOfBacon
EPIC_MEAL_TIME would destroy the tiny 5,000 calorie bacon log. Try for 150,000 Calories next time otherwise you failed.
SMART!
Bacon, tomato and avocada sandwich, yummy!
Grilled pepperjack cheese and bacon on rye. Yyyyyuuuummmm.
Hey, CNN, could you find a less appetizing picture of bacon? Usually the sight of bacon makes me hungry; now I just feel ill.
I want Kate Upton in a bacon bathing suit.
OH! OH! OH!
And the commercial showing the guy marrying bacon. Completely asinine.
What about the commercial showing the guy marrying gum?
Crunchy bacon on creamy peanut butter with chedder cheese
Crunchy bacon on creamy peanut butter with chedder cheese. OMG so damm good
As for me i can wipe out an entire pound of bacon.just for starters , who out there can beat that?