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| accessdate = 2009-04-05}}</ref><ref>"[[Robin Roberts (newscaster)|Robin Roberts]] also talked about Bacon-mania, and the country seemingly going bacon obsessed. 'Baconographers' say this is because bacon is a comfort food, and people are taking guilty pleasure in eating something that's nutritionally taboo, and then extracting even more bliss by exponentially increasing the decadence factor!" {{cite web |
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The movement has been traced to the [[1980s]] and [[1990s]] when high-protein foods became a more prominent [[Diet (nutrition)|diet]] focus due in part to the [[Atkins diet]].<ref name="Fat of the land">"'I'm a bacon fanatic,' he said. 'When I go out to breakfast, I order oatmeal with bacon on the side. Nothing tastes like bacon.'" {{cite web |
The movement has been traced to the [[1980s]] and [[1990s]] when high-protein foods became a more prominent [[Diet (nutrition)|diet]] focus due in part to the [[Atkins diet]].<ref name="Fat of the land">"'I'm a bacon fanatic,' he said. 'When I go out to breakfast, I order oatmeal with bacon on the side. Nothing tastes like bacon.'" {{cite web |
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[[Image:Bacon donut.jpg|thumb|right|A Bacon Maple Bar from [[Voodoo Doughnut]] in [[Portland, Oregon]]]] |
[[Image:Bacon donut.jpg|thumb|right|A Bacon Maple Bar from [[Voodoo Doughnut]] in [[Portland, Oregon]]]] |
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Newer bacon creations have joined more traditional foods like the [[BLT (sandwich)|BLT]], [[Cobb salad]], [[clams casino]] and [[club sandwich]]. Bacon appears most frequently alongside eggs and other breakfast foods, but has also been adapted into products including bacon bubble gum, bacon band-aids, sizzling bacon flavored rolling papers<ref>http://rollingsupreme.com/Products/Rolling_Papers/Juicy_jays/</ref> |
Newer bacon creations have joined more traditional foods like the [[BLT (sandwich)|BLT]], [[Cobb salad]], [[clams casino]] and [[club sandwich]]. Bacon appears most frequently alongside eggs and other breakfast foods, but has also been adapted into products including bacon bubble gum, bacon band-aids, sizzling bacon flavored rolling papers,<ref>http://rollingsupreme.com/Products/Rolling_Papers/Juicy_jays/</ref> and bacon air freshener. The growing popularity of bacon has also encouraged product introductions such as [[bacon salt]].<ref>{{cite web |
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[[Bacon]] food oddities include the [[bacon explosion]]<ref>{{cite web |
[[Bacon]] food oddities include the [[bacon explosion]]<ref>{{cite web |
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| accessdate = 2009-04-06}}</ref> A bacon alarm clock that wakes people up with the smell of cooking bacon has also been announced.<ref>"10 minutes before you're supposed to wake up, it'll start cooking the bacon. The smell will waft out, waking you up to the odor of sweet, sweet hogfat." [http://www.portalino.it/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=36779 Wake and Bacon is most delicious alarm clock ever] Portalino</ref><ref>[http://dvice.com/archives/2008/07/wake-n-bacon-is.php] July 30, 2008 Dvice</ref><ref>[http://www.mathlete.com/portfolio/wakeNbacon.php Wake n Bacon]</ref> A 2009 ''Baltimore Sun'' story describes bacon as being "more than bacon," and stated that for "obsessive and adoring Bacon Nation it's about cheap thrills and a chance for Internet fame."<ref name="Bacon nation"/> Calling it "like an extreme sport," the article described the innovators and enthusiasts celebrating bacon in all its incarnations.<ref name="Bacon nation"/> |
| accessdate = 2009-04-06}}</ref> A bacon alarm clock that wakes people up with the smell of cooking bacon has also been announced.<ref>"10 minutes before you're supposed to wake up, it'll start cooking the bacon. The smell will waft out, waking you up to the odor of sweet, sweet hogfat." [http://www.portalino.it/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=36779 Wake and Bacon is most delicious alarm clock ever] Portalino</ref><ref>[http://dvice.com/archives/2008/07/wake-n-bacon-is.php] July 30, 2008 Dvice</ref><ref>[http://www.mathlete.com/portfolio/wakeNbacon.php Wake n Bacon]</ref> A 2009 ''Baltimore Sun'' story describes bacon as being "more than bacon," and stated that for "obsessive and adoring Bacon Nation it's about cheap thrills and a chance for Internet fame."<ref name="Bacon nation"/> Calling it "like an extreme sport," the article described the innovators and enthusiasts celebrating bacon in all its incarnations.<ref name="Bacon nation"/> |
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| accessdate = 2009-04-06}}</ref> and even "bacon camps."<ref>[http://baconcamp.org/ Bacon camp.org]</ref><ref>[http://baconcamp.com/description.html Bacon camp.com]</ref> Seattle hosted a "bacon camp" where bacon was included in an assortment of bacon dishes and other bacon-related items. Bacon has even been referred to as a fashion statement after a bacon bra was photographed.<ref name="Bacon mania">{{cite news |
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The ''[[San Francisco Weekly]]'' reported on the first "BaconCamp" held "in solidarity with the growing popularity of events (see the recent Grilled Cheese Invitational)" and reported that the event "demonstrated just how much of a high bacon is currently on in terms of notoriety and how far people are able to stretch one culinary theme".<ref name="BaconCampr">Tamara Palmer [http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2009/03/last_saturday_baconcamp.php Saturday Gluttony: BaconCamp] March 23 2009 |
The ''[[San Francisco Weekly]]'' reported on the first "BaconCamp" held "in solidarity with the growing popularity of events (see the recent Grilled Cheese Invitational)" and reported that the event "demonstrated just how much of a high bacon is currently on in terms of notoriety and how far people are able to stretch one culinary theme".<ref name="BaconCampr">Tamara Palmer [http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2009/03/last_saturday_baconcamp.php Saturday Gluttony: BaconCamp] March 23 2009</ref> The event included lectures on bacon as art, a [[Power Point]] presentation of the Obacon project (a recreation of the famous [[Barack Obama "Hope" poster|Obama Hope poster]]), as well as judging and awards.<ref name="BaconCampr"/> The slide show from the event includes a wide range of innovative food and decorative bacon entities.<ref>[http://www.sfweekly.com/slideshow/view/270135 BaconCamp slide show]</ref> The ''San Francisco Weekly'' advised those attending to live, breathe, and smell like it and to bring a bacon dish.<ref>Michael Leaverton |
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March 13, 2009 [http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-03-11/calendar/food-apocalypse Food Apocalypse] San Francisco Weekly</ref> |
March 13, 2009 [http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-03-11/calendar/food-apocalypse Food Apocalypse] San Francisco Weekly</ref> |
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The "Bacon Takedown" competition in Brooklyn, New York, was held March 29, 2009<ref>Weekend Scheduler [http://nymag.com/daily/food/2009/02/bacon_takedown.html Bacon Takedown] New York Magazine</ref><ref>[http://chili-takedown.com/ Bacon takedown website]</ref> and featured 30 contestants vying for the best bacon dish. The winner was bourbon-bacon ice cream. The "Bacon Mania" ABC News segment covered the event and noted that $2 billion in bacon was sold in the United States in 2008 and that "with the bacon business booming... you might say our love affair with the breakfast meat is more passionate than ever".<ref name="BM">[http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7206736 Bacon Mania] March 30, 2009 ABC News</ref> |
The "Bacon Takedown" competition in Brooklyn, New York, was held March 29, 2009<ref>Weekend Scheduler [http://nymag.com/daily/food/2009/02/bacon_takedown.html Bacon Takedown] New York Magazine</ref><ref>[http://chili-takedown.com/ Bacon takedown website]</ref> and featured 30 contestants vying for the best bacon dish. The winner was bourbon-bacon ice cream. The "Bacon Mania" ABC News segment covered the event and noted that $2 billion in bacon was sold in the United States in 2008 and that "with the bacon business booming... you might say our love affair with the breakfast meat is more passionate than ever".<ref name="BM">[http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7206736 Bacon Mania] March 30, 2009 ABC News</ref> |
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On February 28, 2009, the second annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines Iowa hosted a sell-out event for more than 300 people.<ref>[http://blueribbonbaconfestival.com/ Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival]</ref><ref>[http://desmoines.metromix.com/events/roundup/bacon-fest-101/983960/content Bacon Fest 101] February 24, 2009 Des Moines Metromix</ref><ref>Tom Perry [http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090225/ENT02/902250327/1046/ENT 'Best' bacon made in Iowa] February 25, 2009 Des Moines Register</ref> First held March 1, 2008, on [[National Pig Day]], it was founded by Brooks Reynolds, a Des Moines insurance salesman who had been going on summer weekend bacon pilgrimages before deciding to bring the fried feast to the masses. |
On February 28, 2009, the second annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines Iowa hosted a sell-out event for more than 300 people.<ref>[http://blueribbonbaconfestival.com/ Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival]</ref><ref>[http://desmoines.metromix.com/events/roundup/bacon-fest-101/983960/content Bacon Fest 101] February 24, 2009 Des Moines Metromix</ref><ref>Tom Perry [http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090225/ENT02/902250327/1046/ENT 'Best' bacon made in Iowa] February 25, 2009 Des Moines Register</ref> First held March 1, 2008, on [[National Pig Day]], it was founded by Brooks Reynolds, a Des Moines insurance salesman who had been going on summer weekend bacon pilgrimages before deciding to bring the fried feast to the masses.<ref>[http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2008/02/linkfest_bacon_festival.html Bacon Festival] NPR Blog</ref> The event included a bacon eating contest.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyFOvJdFnBM Blue Ribbon eating contest 2008 video]</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah-vmQAvXYg Blue Ribbon eating contest 2009 video]</ref> Atwood's Tavern in Cambridge Massachusetts hosts an annual bacon eating contest.<ref>Micah Bellieu [http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Life/33300-Greasy-does-it-at-the-Atwood-Tavern/ Greasy does it at the Atwood Tavern] |
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Pig outing February 7, 2007 Boston Phoenix</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAhuDKYQ8s4 Video coverage of Atwood's 2008 event]</ref> |
Pig outing February 7, 2007 Boston Phoenix</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAhuDKYQ8s4 Video coverage of Atwood's 2008 event]</ref> |
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Humor about bacon includes an [[April Fool's day]] story about a putative all-bacon restaurant<ref>[http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/omnivore/2009/04/01/atlanta-to-open-americas-first-all-bacon-restaurant/ Baconalia]</ref> and the supposed creation of "squeezable bacon" including a video advertisement.<ref>Nina Garin [http://www.signonsandiego.com/entertainment/street/2009/04/bacon_prank_squeezbacon_real_o.html BACON PRANK: SqueezBacon, real or not?] April 1, 2009 SignsonSanDiego.com</ref> |
Humor about bacon includes an [[April Fool's day]] story about a putative all-bacon restaurant<ref>[http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/omnivore/2009/04/01/atlanta-to-open-americas-first-all-bacon-restaurant/ Baconalia]</ref> and the supposed creation of "squeezable bacon" including a video advertisement.<ref>Nina Garin [http://www.signonsandiego.com/entertainment/street/2009/04/bacon_prank_squeezbacon_real_o.html BACON PRANK: SqueezBacon, real or not?] April 1, 2009 SignsonSanDiego.com</ref> |
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Finally, a group of graduate students in [[Boulder]], [[Colorado]], has established an [[International Bacon Day]] celebration which is now in its fifth year.<ref>http://bacontoday.com/september-5th-is-international-bacon-day/ September 5th is International Bacon Day</ref> |
Finally, a group of graduate students in [[Boulder, Colorado|Boulder]], [[Colorado]], has established an [[International Bacon Day]] celebration which is now in its fifth year.<ref>http://bacontoday.com/september-5th-is-international-bacon-day/ September 5th is International Bacon Day</ref><ref>[http://internationalbaconday.blogspot.com/ International Bacon Day blog]</ref> |
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May 3, 2009 News OK (website of ''Oklahoman'')</ref><ref>"The threat of a global pandemic of swine flu has not only threatened the economic recovery, it’s put one of America’s greatest love affairs on the rocks. I am, of course, speaking of bacon." |
May 3, 2009 News OK (website of ''Oklahoman'')</ref><ref>"The threat of a global pandemic of swine flu has not only threatened the economic recovery, it’s put one of America’s greatest love affairs on the rocks. I am, of course, speaking of bacon." |
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Cindy Perman [http://www.cnbc.com/id/30441225/ Swine Flu Myths: Wash Your Hands, Eat the Bacon] April 29, 2009 |
Cindy Perman [http://www.cnbc.com/id/30441225/ Swine Flu Myths: Wash Your Hands, Eat the Bacon] April 29, 2009 |
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CNBC</ref> [[Heather Lauer]], author of ''Bacon: A Love Story'', said of the impact, "Bacon has been around for thousands of years. It has survived numerous health scares. Anyone who attempts to capitalize on this recent event in an effort to destroy the best meat ever will fail." |
CNBC</ref> [[Heather Lauer]], author of ''Bacon: A Love Story'', said of the impact, "Bacon has been around for thousands of years. It has survived numerous health scares. Anyone who attempts to capitalize on this recent event in an effort to destroy the best meat ever will fail."<ref>Cindy Perman April 29, 2009 |
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[http://www.cnbc.com/id/30441225/ Swine Flu Myths: Wash Your Hands, Eat the Bacon] CNBC</ref> |
[http://www.cnbc.com/id/30441225/ Swine Flu Myths: Wash Your Hands, Eat the Bacon] CNBC</ref> |
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The author refers to the mania as an anti-foodie trend, a time when declaring one's love for and consuming large quantities of bacon products became a sign of [[joie de vivre]] and noted, "Trends inevitably go through their phases—early adoption, buzz, general excitement, overexposure—and bacon is in its terminal stage, clinging to relevance, grasping at any opportunity to cash in on its dwindling cachet as its 15 minutes come to an end". The article suggests a time when battered, deep-fried, bacon-wrapped bacon sandwiches might not be celebrated as the most enjoyable of food experiences and the "killjoy"s and "food Nazi"s who denounce bacon overconsumption for its negative health implications may soon prevail in their [[granola]] eating and [[vegan]] advocacy. The article concludes: "Take off the 'I Love Bacon' shirt, cancel your trip to Baconcamp, and go eat a piece of celery. It's over."<ref name="The end"/> |
The author refers to the mania as an anti-foodie trend, a time when declaring one's love for and consuming large quantities of bacon products became a sign of [[joie de vivre]] and noted, "Trends inevitably go through their phases—early adoption, buzz, general excitement, overexposure—and bacon is in its terminal stage, clinging to relevance, grasping at any opportunity to cash in on its dwindling cachet as its 15 minutes come to an end". The article suggests a time when battered, deep-fried, bacon-wrapped bacon sandwiches might not be celebrated as the most enjoyable of food experiences and the "killjoy"s and "food Nazi"s who denounce bacon overconsumption for its negative health implications may soon prevail in their [[granola]] eating and [[vegan]] advocacy. The article concludes: "Take off the 'I Love Bacon' shirt, cancel your trip to Baconcamp, and go eat a piece of celery. It's over."<ref name="The end"/> |
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The day after the "end of" story was published, an article starting with the words "All Hail Bacon!" noted that a [[Poynter Institute]] report found bacon taking the social media networks "by storm" and that the meat's popularity is "now practically at an epidemic pace, as all of these socially interactive sites are literally pulsating with posts, updates, comments, even clubs / groups dedicated exclusively to the LOVE of Bacon!". |
The day after the "end of" story was published, an article starting with the words "All Hail Bacon!" noted that a [[Poynter Institute]] report found bacon taking the social media networks "by storm" and that the meat's popularity is "now practically at an epidemic pace, as all of these socially interactive sites are literally pulsating with posts, updates, comments, even clubs / groups dedicated exclusively to the LOVE of Bacon!"<ref>Rocco 'Boss Hog' Loosbrock[http://newsblaze.com/story/20090506163246rocc.nb/topstory.html Bacon Bigger Than Oprah, CNN and Ashton Kutcher!]May 06,2009 Newsblaze</ref> Efforts to alleviate flu concerns and fight back against the anti-pork and bacon tide have also been reported.<ref>Indrani Sen [http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/a-swinish-proposal/?hp A Swinish Proposal] May 5, 2009 Diner's Journal New York Times</ref> Some have even taken to utilizing bacon in hummus.<ref>http://www.wvgourmet.com/2009/06/18/bacon-hummus/</ref> |
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<ref>Rocco 'Boss Hog' Loosbrock[http://newsblaze.com/story/20090506163246rocc.nb/topstory.html Bacon Bigger Than Oprah, CNN and Ashton Kutcher!]May 06,2009 Newsblaze</ref> Efforts to alleviate flu concerns and fight back against the anti-pork and bacon tide have also been reported.<ref>Indrani Sen [http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/a-swinish-proposal/?hp A Swinish Proposal] May 5, 2009 Diner's Journal New York Times</ref> Some have even taken to utilizing bacon in hummus. <ref>http://www.wvgourmet.com/2009/06/18/bacon-hummus/</ref> |
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==Bacon mania in popular culture== |
==Bacon mania in popular culture== |
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[[Outer Critics Circle Award]] nominated monologist [[Mike Daisey]] has a show in his "Mysteries of the Unexplained" series on bacon mania. |
[[Outer Critics Circle Award]] nominated monologist [[Mike Daisey]] has a show in his "Mysteries of the Unexplained" series on bacon mania. |
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[[Homer Simpson]], the cartoon character, is a bacon fan and in one episode at a restaurant said, "I'll have the smiley face breakfast special. Uhh, but could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon mustache, five o'clock shadow made of bacon bits and a bacon body."<ref name="Bacon mania"/> The waitress offers to shove a pig down his throat, and then has to inform him she was kidding after he gets excited. Homer replies, "Fine, but the bacon man lives in a bacon house!" |
[[Homer Simpson]], the cartoon character, is a bacon fan and in one episode at a restaurant said, "I'll have the smiley face breakfast special. Uhh, but could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon mustache, five o'clock shadow made of bacon bits and a bacon body."<ref name="Bacon mania"/> The waitress offers to shove a pig down his throat, and then has to inform him she was kidding after he gets excited. Homer replies, "Fine, but the bacon man lives in a bacon house!"<ref name="Bacon mania"/> |
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[[Caitlin Moran]] wrote a commentary calling bacon "the Dark Matter that holds together the Universe", while "We are stardust", and that "bacon is the single most important thing in the world today", but concluded: "I believe the flavour of bacon should be kept exclusively to the foodstuff, bacon — and not allowed to blot out every other thing, like some rampant culinary knotweed. I draw a line in the sand, here and now. I reject bacon!"<ref>Caitlin Moran [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/caitlin_moran/article6858892.ece# Quick, pass me the salt, I’m on a bacon roll]; Bacon is the Dark Matter that holds together the Universe. We are stardust. We are bacon October 5, 2009 The Times</ref> |
[[Caitlin Moran]] wrote a commentary calling bacon "the Dark Matter that holds together the Universe", while "We are stardust", and that "bacon is the single most important thing in the world today", but concluded: "I believe the flavour of bacon should be kept exclusively to the foodstuff, bacon — and not allowed to blot out every other thing, like some rampant culinary knotweed. I draw a line in the sand, here and now. I reject bacon!"<ref>Caitlin Moran [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/caitlin_moran/article6858892.ece# Quick, pass me the salt, I’m on a bacon roll]; Bacon is the Dark Matter that holds together the Universe. We are stardust. We are bacon October 5, 2009 The Times</ref> |
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*[http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/24901 Bacon We Salute You] slideshow Life |
*[http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/24901 Bacon We Salute You] slideshow Life |
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*[http://baconunwrapped.com Bacon Unwrapped blog] |
*[http://baconunwrapped.com Bacon Unwrapped blog] |
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*[http://www.endlesssimmer.com/2009/08/18/100-ways-to-use-a-stick-of-bacon/ 100 ways to use a strip of bacon |
*[http://www.endlesssimmer.com/2009/08/18/100-ways-to-use-a-stick-of-bacon/ 100 ways to use a strip of bacon] |
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*[http://www.notquitenigella.com/2009/10/08/bacon-jam-your-wildest-dreams-come-true/ Recipe for bacon jam] |
*[http://www.notquitenigella.com/2009/10/08/bacon-jam-your-wildest-dreams-come-true/ Recipe for bacon jam] |
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Bacon mania refers to passionate bacon enthusiasm in the United States[1][2][3][4][5] Canada,[6][7] and the United Kingdom. Especially fervent in the United States, the enthusiasm has been described as forming a Bacon Nation.[8] Novel bacon dishes and other bacon related items have been popularized rapidly via the internet,[9][10] and bacon loving partisans have identified themselves as bacon fanatics[11][12][13] or "bacon freaks."
The movement has been traced to the 1980s and 1990s when high-protein foods became a more prominent diet focus due in part to the Atkins diet.[14][15] Since then, bacon focused events and gatherings celebrating the food have been reported and bacon related exploits have been featured in media accounts.
Innovation
Newer bacon creations have joined more traditional foods like the BLT, Cobb salad, clams casino and club sandwich. Bacon appears most frequently alongside eggs and other breakfast foods, but has also been adapted into products including bacon bubble gum, bacon band-aids, sizzling bacon flavored rolling papers,[16] and bacon air freshener. The growing popularity of bacon has also encouraged product introductions such as bacon salt.[17], maple bacon donuts and baconnaise
Bacon food oddities include the bacon explosion[18], chicken fried bacon, bacon ice cream,[19] and chocolate covered bacon, all popularized over the internet.[20] A bacon alarm clock that wakes people up with the smell of cooking bacon has also been announced.[21][22][23] A 2009 Baltimore Sun story describes bacon as being "more than bacon," and stated that for "obsessive and adoring Bacon Nation it's about cheap thrills and a chance for Internet fame."[8] Calling it "like an extreme sport," the article described the innovators and enthusiasts celebrating bacon in all its incarnations.[8]
Organization
The increased interest in bacon has led to Bacon-of-the-month clubs,[24][25] bacon recipe contests, blogs,[26] and even "bacon camps."[27][28] Seattle hosted a "bacon camp" where bacon was included in an assortment of bacon dishes and other bacon-related items. Bacon has even been referred to as a fashion statement after a bacon bra was photographed.[1]
The Portland Monthly noted that "Bacon is such a quintessential breakfast staple, even vegetarians stake a claim to their own versions."[29] A website called "Bacon Today" was started to provide updates about bacon related happenings.[8][30]
The San Francisco Weekly reported on the first "BaconCamp" held "in solidarity with the growing popularity of events (see the recent Grilled Cheese Invitational)" and reported that the event "demonstrated just how much of a high bacon is currently on in terms of notoriety and how far people are able to stretch one culinary theme".[31] The event included lectures on bacon as art, a Power Point presentation of the Obacon project (a recreation of the famous Obama Hope poster), as well as judging and awards.[31] The slide show from the event includes a wide range of innovative food and decorative bacon entities.[32] The San Francisco Weekly advised those attending to live, breathe, and smell like it and to bring a bacon dish.[33]
Events
In and around Baltimore, Maryland, bacon has featured at various eating and drinking establishments. There is a "clamoring" for the bacon happy hour at Bad Decisions bar in Fells Point which includes a menu that is completely redone with bacon dishes and big bowls of bacon served on the bar (using up to 30 pounds of bacon in a two hour period).[8] A cafe in Hampden offers the Bacon Bulleit, a cocktail of bourbon, lemon, and maple syrup, "with applewood smoked bacon replacing the swizzle stick."[8]
The "Bacon Takedown" competition in Brooklyn, New York, was held March 29, 2009[34][35] and featured 30 contestants vying for the best bacon dish. The winner was bourbon-bacon ice cream. The "Bacon Mania" ABC News segment covered the event and noted that $2 billion in bacon was sold in the United States in 2008 and that "with the bacon business booming... you might say our love affair with the breakfast meat is more passionate than ever".[5]
On February 28, 2009, the second annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines Iowa hosted a sell-out event for more than 300 people.[36][37][38] First held March 1, 2008, on National Pig Day, it was founded by Brooks Reynolds, a Des Moines insurance salesman who had been going on summer weekend bacon pilgrimages before deciding to bring the fried feast to the masses.[39] The event included a bacon eating contest.[40][41] Atwood's Tavern in Cambridge Massachusetts hosts an annual bacon eating contest.[42][43]
Humor about bacon includes an April Fool's day story about a putative all-bacon restaurant[44] and the supposed creation of "squeezable bacon" including a video advertisement.[45]
Finally, a group of graduate students in Boulder, Colorado, has established an International Bacon Day celebration which is now in its fifth year.[46][47]
The end?
Negative publicity surrounding swine flu, which is not transmitted via pork product consumption,[48] hit sales and prices in the pork industry.[49][50] Heather Lauer, author of Bacon: A Love Story, said of the impact, "Bacon has been around for thousands of years. It has survived numerous health scares. Anyone who attempts to capitalize on this recent event in an effort to destroy the best meat ever will fail."[51]
Seattle's The Stranger published a story entitled: "The End of Baconmania: Our Long Coronary Nightmare Is Almost Over", and predicted the movement had "almost run its course" and was in its "terminal stage".[52] "First, there was Bacon Salt... Then came its inevitable progeny, Baconnaise—like Bacon Salt, only with mayonnaise... Then, in quick succession: bacon maple doughnuts; gummi bacon; bacon-flavored lip balm; chocolate-covered bacon; bacolicio.us, a URL add-on for superimposing a photo of a strip of bacon onto any webpage; the Wendy's Baconator (self-explanatory); and the Bacon Explosion, a bacon-wrapped loaf of pork sausage that was the subject of an 1,100-word article in the New York Times... Not to mention bacon vodka, bacon tattoos, the bacon bra, bacon-flavored dental floss, and bacon bandages."[52]
The author refers to the mania as an anti-foodie trend, a time when declaring one's love for and consuming large quantities of bacon products became a sign of joie de vivre and noted, "Trends inevitably go through their phases—early adoption, buzz, general excitement, overexposure—and bacon is in its terminal stage, clinging to relevance, grasping at any opportunity to cash in on its dwindling cachet as its 15 minutes come to an end". The article suggests a time when battered, deep-fried, bacon-wrapped bacon sandwiches might not be celebrated as the most enjoyable of food experiences and the "killjoy"s and "food Nazi"s who denounce bacon overconsumption for its negative health implications may soon prevail in their granola eating and vegan advocacy. The article concludes: "Take off the 'I Love Bacon' shirt, cancel your trip to Baconcamp, and go eat a piece of celery. It's over."[52]
The day after the "end of" story was published, an article starting with the words "All Hail Bacon!" noted that a Poynter Institute report found bacon taking the social media networks "by storm" and that the meat's popularity is "now practically at an epidemic pace, as all of these socially interactive sites are literally pulsating with posts, updates, comments, even clubs / groups dedicated exclusively to the LOVE of Bacon!"[53] Efforts to alleviate flu concerns and fight back against the anti-pork and bacon tide have also been reported.[54] Some have even taken to utilizing bacon in hummus.[55]
Bacon mania in popular culture
Outer Critics Circle Award nominated monologist Mike Daisey has a show in his "Mysteries of the Unexplained" series on bacon mania.
Homer Simpson, the cartoon character, is a bacon fan and in one episode at a restaurant said, "I'll have the smiley face breakfast special. Uhh, but could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon mustache, five o'clock shadow made of bacon bits and a bacon body."[1] The waitress offers to shove a pig down his throat, and then has to inform him she was kidding after he gets excited. Homer replies, "Fine, but the bacon man lives in a bacon house!"[1]
Caitlin Moran wrote a commentary calling bacon "the Dark Matter that holds together the Universe", while "We are stardust", and that "bacon is the single most important thing in the world today", but concluded: "I believe the flavour of bacon should be kept exclusively to the foodstuff, bacon — and not allowed to blot out every other thing, like some rampant culinary knotweed. I draw a line in the sand, here and now. I reject bacon!"[56]
See also
- List of bacon dishes
- Seduced by Bacon book on the subject
- Heather Lauer – author of the Bacon Unwrapped blog and book on bacon
References
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- ^ Simone Abrahamsohn Get wrapped up in a sizzling culinary trend All over Hogtown, bacon is the new 'It' ingredient, Hip to the Strip June 10, 2009 Toronto Star
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(help) - ^ a b Tamara Palmer Saturday Gluttony: BaconCamp March 23 2009
- ^ BaconCamp slide show
- ^ Michael Leaverton March 13, 2009 Food Apocalypse San Francisco Weekly
- ^ Weekend Scheduler Bacon Takedown New York Magazine
- ^ Bacon takedown website
- ^ Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival
- ^ Bacon Fest 101 February 24, 2009 Des Moines Metromix
- ^ Tom Perry 'Best' bacon made in Iowa February 25, 2009 Des Moines Register
- ^ Bacon Festival NPR Blog
- ^ Blue Ribbon eating contest 2008 video
- ^ Blue Ribbon eating contest 2009 video
- ^ Micah Bellieu Greasy does it at the Atwood Tavern Pig outing February 7, 2007 Boston Phoenix
- ^ Video coverage of Atwood's 2008 event
- ^ Baconalia
- ^ Nina Garin BACON PRANK: SqueezBacon, real or not? April 1, 2009 SignsonSanDiego.com
- ^ http://bacontoday.com/september-5th-is-international-bacon-day/ September 5th is International Bacon Day
- ^ International Bacon Day blog
- ^ Paul R. La Monica [http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/01/markets/thebuzz/?postversion=2009050115 It's still safe to bring home the bacon Call it swine flu or H1N1. But the outbreak has led to bans on pork and falling prices of commodities and pork processors. It looks like an overreaction.] May 1, 2009 CNNMoney.com
- ^ "Eat bacon!" Clytie Bunyan Campaign could save pork’s bacon May 3, 2009 News OK (website of Oklahoman)
- ^ "The threat of a global pandemic of swine flu has not only threatened the economic recovery, it’s put one of America’s greatest love affairs on the rocks. I am, of course, speaking of bacon." Cindy Perman Swine Flu Myths: Wash Your Hands, Eat the Bacon April 29, 2009 CNBC
- ^ Cindy Perman April 29, 2009 Swine Flu Myths: Wash Your Hands, Eat the Bacon CNBC
- ^ a b c Erica C. Barnett The End of Baconmania: Our Long Coronary Nightmare Is Almost Over May 5, 2009 The Stranger
- ^ Rocco 'Boss Hog' LoosbrockBacon Bigger Than Oprah, CNN and Ashton Kutcher!May 06,2009 Newsblaze
- ^ Indrani Sen A Swinish Proposal May 5, 2009 Diner's Journal New York Times
- ^ http://www.wvgourmet.com/2009/06/18/bacon-hummus/
- ^ Caitlin Moran Quick, pass me the salt, I’m on a bacon roll; Bacon is the Dark Matter that holds together the Universe. We are stardust. We are bacon October 5, 2009 The Times
Further reading
- Joanna Pruess Seduced by Bacon: Recipes & Lore about America's Favorite Indulgence October 1, 2006 The Lyons Press 192 pages ISBN 1592288510 ISBN 978-1592288519
- Bacon: A Love Story: A Salty Survey of Everybody's Favorite Meat Heather Lauer