Bacon Pop

The future is now and it is refreshingly meaty.

For the vegetarians out there:
"If you’re sick of bacon, no problem. Jones also makes a “Tofurky and Gravy” soda, which it promises is “100% Vegan.”"

From the guys who brought you Baconnaise...

Mmmvelopes.

Envelopes... that taste like bacon.

So, after thousands of years and kajillions of horrible tasting envelopes licked, we’re happy to report that J&D’s Bacon-Flavored Mmmvelopes™ are here to save the day. No longer will envelopes taste like the underside of your car. You can enjoy the taste of delicious bacon instead.

What's next... lemons and limes that taste like candy?!?!?

I'm happy that progress can be so delicious.



ps good luck on 'xams, all y'alls.

i am really not sure what this means II

Ladles and Gellyspoons, coming from our DT Twitter,


it has happened again.

Happy Wednesday!

The man is the reason we eat bacon every morning

"Years ago, Americans grabbed toast and coffee for breakfast. Public-relations pioneer Edward Bernays changed that.

Bernays used his Uncle Sigmund Freud's ideas to help convince the public, among other things, that bacon and eggs was the true all-American breakfast."

We watched a documentary on the guy in a Journalism Ethics class this morning. I'm still kind of getting over it. He lived until 103 (died in '95), and is generally regarded as the father of PR.

The man hypnotized America into reinventing bacon. He is literally a bacontrepeneur.

Among his lesser feats, Bernays also made "green" fashionable in the 20s, made kids like soap in the 50s, and fueled the overthrow of the Guatemalan government in 1954 just to sell fruit.

I like the selling of the colour "green" the most. The man was hired by Lucky Strike cigarettes because they had a dilemma. Their conversation went something like this, I'm told:

Lucky Strike: Not enough women are buying our cigarettes... How do we remedy this?
Ed Bernays: Well, your packaging is green and red. No woman wears green; it's never been fashionable before. Change your cartons to another colour, and they'll have no problem carrying them around.
LS: Are you kidding? We spent hours designing this carton! It's our brand! No, no... just change the entire American fashion industry to match our cartons. It'd be easier.
EB: Oh. Okay.

AND HE FUCKING DID! Like... what the fuck?

I'm most amazed at how I've never heard of the man before. They say the best PR people are the invisible ones... obviously, otherwise you can see the puppet-master, the strings, if you will, and it ruins the show. But considering he manipulated American culture for the last 80 years, I'm surprised his name isn't more common.

And he was Freud's nephew. Which explains a bit.

This is the kind of stuff I'm glad I go to school for. I'd like to read a book of his, or his essay, "The Engineering of Consent". It seems kind of twisted--all about how the American people are vulnerable and intellectually lacking, made to buy things they don't need--but he was so damn successful it's scary.

Most importantly, I'd ask, Why haven't we learned by now? The Internet only complicates issues--for all it clarifies, it also muddles twice as much. Maybe we are really that gullible, and forever will be. Maybe that's why I'm typing on a MacBook now, and why we continue to shop in malls, smoke cigarettes and drink Coke.

"The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest."
- Edward Bernays

I guess that's why he started a war on Guatemala, and we're still in university.

PS Bernice, I lost my bacon-post-virginity. Happy now?

Everyday

I'm not sure if anyone has linked this website, but check out the health section, I personally have the bandaids.

There's also a poetry archive.

Where is your God now?

http://foodproof.com/blogs/view/post/bacon-man-435

Bon Appétit

What could be better than Turkey stuffed with duck, further still stuffed with chicken? All that wrapped in bacon of course.

http://bacontoday.com/turbaconducken-turducken-wrapped-in-bacon/

i am really not sure what this means

we are either important, lost in the shuffle, or both.

Peep.

To Whom it May Concern

The Mercantile in Toronto is a proud purveyor of Baconnaise.

icgyabl--keeps you informed

Because I'd Rather Be A Bacontrepreneur Than A Jewish Historian

Yoachanan Ben Zakkai, Yoachanan Ben Zakkai
I want to write about you-i cant, but Why?
There is so much else that i can learn about
Primarily foods that can give you gout
O Internet, you distract as much as you inform,
Gone from a luxury to a cruel social norm
Your Supplies of pages will never run dry,
Like Hamlet did, i just want to say Fie!
But as hard as i can possibly try,
my love for you will never die.
Yoachanan Ben Zakkai, I ask Why oh Why?
Why cant you compare with Bacon Apple Pie?

A Guide to Bacontreperneurialship

For my birthday last year Mr. Sir and Michelle Obama Has a Rabbi in the Family made me the proud recipient of this:

I would love to have someone to share the kitchen with in making something (if only to have someone else touch the raw bacon...and share the love of course).

AnimalCrackers was also given bacon for Christmas by her Secret Santa...she made it that night.

Everything but the Oink!

Try undoing this baby.

Also, those of you who resided in Toronto this summer, does anyone remember this glorious moment?

Management 450: Bacontrepreneurship

In our new series of bacontrepreneurship, I present to you a masterpiece of ideas

To paraphrase Mr. Skylight,

"Nobody should ever be allowed to drink anything else again"

Enjoy.

I'm to preach, mafuckas.

Baconentrepreneurs

Well, look.

If that's how it's going to be, that's how it's going to be.

Eat.

Your.

Heart.

Out.

Seriously, you will probably die of a heart attack if you attempt any of these.

Housekeeping II

Alright team, it seems as if we've developed a pattern here with themes of certain posts.

So, i'm officially creating a new regular (albeit unscheduled, of course) segment here on the good old DT.
It's called, in honor of Paul Who Is A Ghost's first post on the theme, Bacontrepreneurs.
Everytime something interesting involves bacon in some way, we post it, and put "bacontrepreneurs" in the label, or title, or preferably both.
Kapeesh?
Good.

I'll put another one up later in the day
Thank you for your continued support of dessert tickets.

Bacontrepeneurs

It's our dream to make everything taste like bacon.

"How did I ever eat burgers without this?" - Jessica M.

"I would eat that with a spoon." - Steven K.