Did you contribute the bacon chocolate bar for the gift swap at the holiday party this year (delish btw!)? 'coz that would make sense, but it'd also make sense if it's the sort of thing you wouldn't have done because it's too hip...

Personally what I would love to see would be a quick trend in 2009 with pate. Duck, chicken, turkey, in ice cream, candied caramels, and in more sandwiches! Nom!

Maybe lobster? Trendy AND recession friendly!

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Wait... bloggers ran bacon into the ground? wut?

Why didn't you just post a blog about hating puppies?

BECAUSE IT'S THE EXACT SAME THING.

I think the natural extension would be puppies wrapped in bacon.

"Everything should taste like bacon"

baconsalt.com

look, i will stop reading your blog/column if you keep writing this way

I made a bacon sundae. It was horrible.

There's already a horrifically unfunny blog about rutabagas. It was featured in one of those 'The Oregonian has just noticed that there's blogs' type features. I'd link to it, but Why, y'know?

@ migueleron

I'm sorry you're suffering the misconception that I write these posts. I actually type key words into the Mercury blog/column generator and post/publish the results. But your concerns have been noted.

Yaaaaaargh!!! Where was this happening? Why, right downtown in Davis Street Tavern at the Masterbacon (gag) cook-off!

That is the most unfortunately named event ever.

And thank you, Patrick. This had to be said.

I fell off the bacon-worshiping bandwagon when, in a Jack in the Box commercial, some fellow lamented "Why won't anyone make a bacon-flavored latte?!?!"

I just about plotzed right there.

Yeah, yeah. Bacon is a pretty easy target the day after the bacon explosion made its rounds on the Internet. I get it. Everybody is a little worn out.

But bacon tastes good. And Masterbacon was awesome (I should know, I organized it). You know what's worse? Try this on for size; Portland is the Bacon Capital of the World. Ha. Its been said on the Internet (technically the Portland Mercury Blog is breaking it right here) so now its true. Now just try to stop it.

PS - Masterbacon has morphed into BaconCamp: http://baconcamp.org ... guess what? Its going to happen in every city in the world. Just try and stop it!!!! Put that in your rutabaga and smoke it!

(this is all of course said in fun ... except the Bacon Capital of the World shit ... that's goin' on a t-shirt and its mine!!)

I expected better from you, Mercury. First the Oregonian loses all credibility, now you?

PS - Masterbacon has morphed into BaconCamp: http://baconcamp.org ... guess what? Its going to happen in every city in the world. Just try and stop it!!!! Put that in your rutabaga and smoke it!

I suppose next we're going to have Bacon Camp for Girls.

Oy.

Seriously... fill in the fucking template for your McWebpage before spamming this all over, kveton.

A cat - it sucks you can't get laid, we all feel bad for you. Here's a bacon toast to you getting some this year and breaking your 7 year drought!

Your mom.

I'm with A cat. FrontPage spells fail. Learn some HTML or something.

LOL ... DNS hasn't propagated ... try http://www.baconcamp.org ... and a little less 'tude.

Fuck you.

Hey, thanks for the writeup! I never would have known about Masterbacon otherwise. Bacon rules, and there's no such thing as bad pub!

FYI - you're just like the folks who protest the new titty bar or smut shop - we never would have know about it otherwise. Thanks again!

Fuck you, also, capnkirk. Assign yourself an icon or GTFO. You people make me sick.

Take that, jackass.

Glad to see that you're going to be a productive poster. Enjoy your stay, fuckface.

What? A bunch of pussies that are whining about the aesthetic merits of a Wiki page? I hope you get crabs.

You've been Bacn'ed, Bitch! http://bacn.me/107

So, all of the pro-bacon posters are first time posters that show up and only post in this thread... What a coincidence. I wonder what on earth could possibly be happening?

Coleman, you jackass!!! I'm taking bacon infused bourbon to a chili cookoff next weekend, and if I hear ONE person mention shark jumping, it's your head on a stake! Did Ransdell put you up to this?

Oh, and I'll be done with bacon just as soon as our mayor is held accountable for looking his constituency in the eye and lying through the hole in his head... And even then, I'll be waiting for him to apologize to Ball before I give it up for good. Put that in your pole and smoke it, Savage...

That's Mr. Fuckface to you.

Homer: You mean you're never going to eat meat again? What about pork chops?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Bacon?
Lisa: Dad, all those come from the same animal!
Homer: Sure Lisa, some magical animal!

"it's a bit ironic"

Please explain, because obviously one of us doesn't know what "ironic" means.

I oughtta smack you upside the head with a slab of bacon, Coleman. Screw you bacon haters. Bacon is the king of foods.

@ GLV

To clarify... Bacon can be used ironically, and often is. You don't find "bacon sushi" ironic?

I just pooped in a Martini. I call it a "Poop-tini"

GLV is making the argument that what is known as "hipster irony" has nothing to do with the actual concept of irony. Are you really so stupid that you need this explained to you, Patrick?

Yes! Wait, what was the question?

Thanks, Patrick, for writing this post. I love bacon too, but am also sick to death of the kitschy worship that goes on with this food. I even was thinking of writing a post to that effect myself before I read yours. I mean, enough already. Besides, no bacon has the exquisite flavor of seared foie gras or Famous Ray's of Greenwich Village pizza.

I think sausage should be the new "it" meat, if only for the easy sexual innuendo in discussing it.

I read this post and thread yesterday and this morning in my inbox was an update from chowhound linking to a thread on Rutabagas:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/589822

In an effort to soothe some of the very ruffled feathers here in the forum I would suggest that everyone agree to compromise and we all make an effort to promote our favorite bacon and rutabaga combinations.

Bacon & Rutabaga Puree?
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefi…

How about Okie style Savory Rutabaga Pudding?
http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/phoenixreci…

The possibilities are huge...

I would call bacon sushi fucking stupid, not ironic.

My favourite kind of article. "everyone stop having fun that I don't want to have." If you are eager for some creativity try writing an article that isn't just a gripe about something you don't want to be involved with.

Iin these tough economic times, bacon is all we have.

And porn.

Don't tell me you want to take our porn too, Patrick?

WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN??

In case no one recognizes what my icon is, I will tell you. That is a picture of whale meat and blubber. Which I would contend would be the best candidate for sushi bacon.

And you think regular old pig bacon is a contentious subject...

I must speak up in defense of bacon. Bacon is the most erotic of all pork products. The ranking is this:

Bacon (sizzling sensuality, the little pricks of grease on your arm)
Sausage links (obvious)
Pork Chops (lower than links, above ham)
Ham (religious overtones; eaten at Easter to prove Christians aren't Jews)
Hot Dogs (disgusting)

I say this as a vegan who has obviously spent a lot of time thinking about it. No matter how much bacon's erotic nature is co-opted by Taco Bell (remember the ads about women attracting men by putting TB bacon in their purses?) I stand by my conviction that bacon is fuckin' erotic.

FUCK YOU ALL