Aug 14 2008
The Hour of the Bacon is At Hand
UPDATE: And what’s a day with a bacon song? Here are the lyrics:
Pork! It’s the meat of kings!
It’s made from pig, try it with onion rings.
Pork sure goes with everything, cause it’s made from swine, and swine sure tastes fine.
Just bring some to the picnic baby,
You know you wanna stuff it in my hamper.
But please put it in some tupperware
‘Cause I don’t wanna be a porky chancer.
Let’s talk about pork.
Converse about meat.
Veggies get wedgies cause meat can’t be beat!
Ham and bacon, you should taste them.
I know it’s surprising but it’s so appetizing!
(HT: Bacon Unwrapped)
[ORIGINAL POST:] A day with out bacon is…well, just wrong. To fill in the gaps in your bacon sensitivities, here are two slices of bacony goodness.
Bacon is usually pork belly or back that has been cured or brined, seasoned, and often smoked. There are countless variations - sliced thick or thin, center-cut, precooked, microwavable, and made from turkey or other meats. Aside from convenience or alternative bacons, here are a few styles you’re likely to encounter in supermarkets and specialty stores:
1. Irish and English bacon. Taken from the loin, with lean surrounded by a ring of fat. Cured and/or smoked.
2. Canadian bacon. Precooked, very lean, cured and lightly smoked, and cut from the loin. (Known as “back bacon” in Canada.)
3. Country bacon. Often heavily smoked, salty, and thickly sliced.
4. Standard bacon. Sliced and packaged, usually with the rind trimmed.
5. Pancetta. Italian bacon from the belly that is seasoned, dry-aged, and cured - not smoked.
6. Slab bacon. Pork belly with fat, lean, and rind, that has been cured and/or smoked, but not sliced.
And to wake you properly in the morning, there’s this:
Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey. Mmmm…can’t you just smell that aroma of sizzling pork wafting from your alarm clock? Brent Rolen sent us a link to this Mathlete report (see swiped photo above) on a clever little gizmo timed to cook a bacon strip under halogen lamps inside a clock radio.
When the alarm goes off, the radio issues not a shrieking siren but the irresistible smell of yummy bacon. In theory, you’d wake up hungry and nostalgic for Mom’s pre-school breakfasts. In practice, you’d probably wake up thinking the house was on fire and bolt into the front yard in your underwear.
And you can’t have bacon without something tall and cool to wash it down, right? Here’s a little something to quench your pork-stoked thirst: bacon vodka. Still not sated? How about a nice chocolate bacon bar. Or bacon chocolate-chip cookies. Or maybe just a nice chaser of bacon beer.
You can run, plant eaters, but you’ll have to stop sometime. And when you do, the clock will be waiting. The alarm is already set. The hour of bacon is at hand.
(HT: NashvilleScene)
