Bacon. Bacon bacon
bacon. A love that never ends.
Probably the most
monotonous and predictable thing about the internet is its love of bacon. It is
literally a salt-cured piece of fat that works well in both sweet and savory
contexts and possesses the most satisfying crispiness, thus fitting the basic criteria
for deliciousness (as demonstrated in Salt Sugar Fat, which I found
is basically a guidebook for making addictive food in the comfort of your own
home)—so the fact that millions of people feel the need to worship this meat
product both online and IRL is quite unsurprising. I am always shocked when
someone says they don’t like bacon. Like my mom. My mom doesn’t like bacon.
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| God, what a hipster. source |
And, as expected, the
most common rebuttal to a vegan or vegetarian diet is simply that. Bacon. Who
can live without it? How can you stand to exist without consuming this one
godly food?
Fortunately, bacon is
probably one of the easiest foods to replicate. As I said, it is, to an
untrained palate (like mine), a mass of salt and fat with a smoky flavor and
pleasant crunch. Well damn if I can find something that is not dead animal
flesh and possesses one of those attributes.
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