I can't escape bacon

omg!bacon!

Look at that guy. he ABSOLUTELY LOVES bacon. He makes bacon milkshakes and has parties in which he makes 4 course meals entirely of bacon. He has a wallet that looks like folded strips of bacon. His pants are being held up by a belt fashioned to look like bacon. At some point he has probably been on a bacon related vacation. He has toured the famous bacon making regions of missouri and crafted his own artisinal bacons while living with a rural hog farming family. He is a bacon type of guy.

Our recent national obsession with bacon is bothering me. I see pro-bacon T shirts, bumper stickers, bacon related blogs and a general two hundred fold increase in how much bacon is served on restaurant menus. Now we have micro ranched bacon, gourmet euro bacon, bacon chocolate bars and bacon in am million other places it doesn't belong.

Weds night at the Triple Rock: perhaps the perfect storm of hipsterism

I get it. Everyone likes bacon. Enough with the blog postings and scary menu items. Bacon ice cream doesn't taste good no matter how much everyone is into baconating every part of their meal now.

I can't wait for the eventual bacon backlash to start. To me it feels shameful and populist. Its impossible to watch a cooking show without seeing the chef needlessly add bacon to every dish and give you that commiserating, into-the-camera look and attempts to television bond with me over our presumed mutual love of putting bacon in everything we eat.