I am so tired of hearing about bacon. Look, I get it. You like the taste of bacon. You'd eat bacon for every meal. You'd eat it in ice cream, on donuts, and in chocolate. Any food in which bacon has not been a traditional ingredient for more than 10 years, you would definitely be game to put bacon up in there and eat it.
Now, for full disclosure, I don't eat bacon or any meat. But this isn't about a meat/not meat thing. I'd love to hear about some new kind of sausage. I enjoy watching cooking shows where they do things like dress a turkey by sliding basil leaves under the skin. Does that dish contain a whole tiny bird? Wow!
What I'm sick of is this endless fascination with bacon COMBINED with the idea that nobody else has ever reached the conclusion that they think bacon is delicious. Here are some example conversations:
Hipster A: I was making coffee this morning...
Hipster B: Yah?
Hipster A: ...and I totally used bacon to stir in sugar and cream.
Hipster B: OMG, that sounds SOO good!
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Marina Chick A: I bought cupcakes at Cupcake Kate's in to work today...
Marina Chick B: Ooh, I love cupcakes!
Marina Chick A: Well, you'll NEVER believe what they added to them... BACON!
Marina Chick A and B: Squeeee!
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Financial Dude A: Hey brah, guess what I love?
Financial Dude B: Dude don't be gay.
Financial Dude A: Bacon dude, I love bacon.
Financial Dude B: Woah, I totally love bacon too!
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Castro Boy A: I made mini lemon meringue pies for the party!
Castro Boy B: Oh sweetheart those are adoooorable.
Castro Boy A: Oh no, its better than that. I candied bacon and mixed it in!
Castro Boy B: NO.
Castro Boy A: I know, right?
Castro Boy B: NO!!
Castro Boy A: I know, right?
Castro Boy C: Its good because it has bacon in it!
...and so on.
So, I'm not saying that bacon isn't good and I'm not saying it shouldn't be tried in different foods. I'm saying that, at least in the Bay Area, its pretty much the most common ingredient in any kind of food possible. Its as common as having brown shoes. Or a car with four wheels.
And dressing your food up in something everybody loves a priori doesn't mean you're a great cook. It means you're an adult hitting a home run in the kiddie park; a slam dunk in your kid brothers nerf basketball hoop. It means you're serving bacon.
So please, enjoy bacon, bring it to parties and into work on sticks. But tone it down ok? It will still be good even if we stop constantly saying so.
