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Bacon Meme of the Week
In case you were wondering, there is such a thing as International Bacon Day. Read about it here. The day brings together the diverse peoples of the world in reverent appreciation of God’s greatest gift to mankind.
Bacon fun fact: In the 12th century, a church in the English town of Great Dunmow created a tradition of gifting bacon to married men who could take an oath that he had not argued with his spouse for a year and a day.
Sadly, no man ever qualified. (OK, I made up that last part.)
Bacon sad fact: Native Americans never tasted bacon before the arrival of the Spanish in the New World. Hernando de Soto, known primarily for his explorations, brought 13 pigs with him to the Americas in 1539.
— JAB
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Bacon Meme of the Week
From the inimitable Babylon Bee:
JERUSALEM — Citing newly uncovered writings from Greece, Rome, and Jerusalem, biblical scholars are now saying the shockingly rapid growth of the early church can be attributed to the fact that Christians were allowed to eat bacon.
“Save yourselves from this crooked generation! Believe in Jesus, the Messiah! And also, I had a dream last week and we can totally eat bacon now!” said Peter in one of his recently discovered early sermons given in a Jewish synagogue. “Seriously–have you people tried this stuff? It’s amazing! All the bacon you can eat! God told me it’s not unclean anymore! Wooo hooooo!” Read the rest.
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Bacon News of the Week
When my daughter Sara Bacon was in high school, she had a good friend named Katie Macon. I always thought they’d make a great law firm — Macon Bacon & Associates, or some such. Never did I imagine that Macon Bacon would be the name of a college baseball team, much less that it would be assailed as politically incorrect.
But such is the utterly insane and humorless world that we live in. Playing upon the national mania for cured pig meat, a Macon, Ga.-based baseball team calling itself Macon Bacon has a bacon strip named Kevin as a mascot and sells menu items like “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Bacon Wrapped Bacon, Steak Cut Bacon, Bacon Cheeseburger, Bacon Dog, Bacon Loaded Cheese Fries, Bacon Loaded Mac N Cheese, and Bacon Chips.”
Now killjoys with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine have denounced the team, reports the New York Post: “Macon Bacon’s glorification of bacon, a processed meat that raises the risk of colorectal cancer and other diseases, sends the wrong message to fans.” The physicians recommended plant-based imitations of meat as a substitute.
Macon Bacon President Brandon Raphael basically told the physicians group to take their zucchini and eggplants and shove them where the sun don’t shine. The fans love the team’s name, he said. “The Macon Bacon will be sizzling forever and will not consider a name change. Ever.”
Yessss! –JAB