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Pig butchery time lapse

aaron cohen — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:48:01 +0000

Here's a high speed time lapse if a pig being butchered with a hip hop soundtrack.

Via Wayne

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2010 Boston Bacon & Beer Festival

aaron cohen — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:07:40 +0000

Posting has been light the last couple weeks as I've been putting together the 2010 Boston Bacon & Beer Festival with SoWa Sundays. One of the other things I do besides Unlikely Words is @eatBoston, a local food and restaurant information source. I like to put on events with Boston area restaurants every couple months.

It's probably an impossible task, but I'd like to shift the direction of the bacon meme. It's tired. In order to do this, I asked some of Boston's best restaurants to offer a unique take on bacon. Along with some great local and craft breweries, there will also be butchery demonstrations showing attendees where bacon comes from. And what's a festival without music? The event sold out over 1300 tickets 3 weeks ahead of the event and there will be no tickets available at the door. Chris Piascik did the poster above along with some other designs.

For a full list of the restaurants and breweries, you can visit the info page.

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The New York Times Kills Itself and Bacon Meme at Same Time

aaron cohen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:05:51 +0000

A couple weeks ago, The New York Times wisely introduced Article Skimmer as an additional way for readers to interact with the news. It's fast, intuitive, and easy to use. I put this in the solidly innovative column that I've seen a bunch of from the Times over the last year or so.

But then let me introduce Skimmer's Bacon topic. I've been trying to think of a way to kill the bacon meme since January or so, but the New York Times just did it for me. I'm tired of the internet that allows lazy marketers to layer whatever they want with bacon and score cheap internet traffic. That's not an internet I want to live in, and I don't think that's the internet you want either.

I can't help but think the bacon topic is aimed at this cheap internet traffic and by catering to it, the New York Times has debased itself. Who do they think they are, really? They could have maintained their stodgy standoffishness, but by rolling around the mud with the pigs...well, let's just say that 'arbiter of cool' The New York Times is not. To say nothing of the fact that if you're a meme, and people send around links about you, and then everyone on the internet is talking about you, and then The Paper of Record talks about you, you're not a meme anymore. You've baconed the Times or some other cute play on jumping the shark. It should be noted for the record that, for the sake of my argument, I've ignored the likely scenario that the Topics on Skimmer are automatically created based on what the readers are searching for and reading. If that's not how Topics get created, well that's just sad. (Thanks, Aaron!)

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Wake N Bacon

aaron cohen — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:41:42 +0000

This is an oldie, but goodie. Put a frozen strip of bacon into your Wake N Bacon. 10 minutes before you need to wake up, it starts cooking so you can wake up to the tasty aroma of bacon (and smell like bacon for the rest of your life)!
Thanks, Chris.

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Japanese Bacon

aaron cohen — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:46:42 +0000

"Elaborate Bacon: Piece in heart, Fragrance in mouth." (Thanks, Karmen!) ###Possibly related posts:Bacon Cheeseburger With Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwiches as Buns Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo Bacon Bra ### Possibly related posts:

Chocolate Stout Bacon Cake

aaron cohen — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:28:28 +0000

Not only does this cake have chocolate and bacon, but it has beer and, well, cake. (Thanks, Jonathan!) ###Possibly related posts:Chocolate Covered Bacon: Bacolate Forever! One Step Closer to Chocolate Covered Bacon Perfection: Bacolate Truffles Bacon Cheeseburger With Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwiches as Buns ### Possibly related posts:

Bacon Bikini

aaron cohen — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:42:21 +0000

Like the Bacon Bra, but even less safe for work, and somehow billed as th ultimate Super Bowl food (huh?), the bacon bikini. (Thanks, Matt!)

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Bacon Sausage Recipe

aaron cohen — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:03:23 +0000

One last bacon post for the day. A bbq bacon sausage. You just have to click the link to understand how it all works. It's glorious. And disgusting. ###Possibly related posts:Bacon Cheeseburger With Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwiches as Buns Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo Wake N Bacon ### Possibly related posts:

Maple Bacon Lollipops

aaron cohen — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:26:40 +0000

Another birthday present, another bacon related treat. I haven't had it yet, but I bet it tastes syrupy and smoky. We'll see how it goes. Thanks, Ally! ###Possibly related posts:Bacon Mints Bacon Cheeseburger With Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwiches as Buns Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo ### Possibly related posts:

The Holy Church of Bacon

aaron cohen — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:42:44 +0000

Here is a wiki for The Holy Church of Bacon complete with a list to quite a few bacon blogs and places for all your bacon merch needs. ###Possibly related posts:Bacon Cheeseburger With Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwiches as Buns Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo Wake N Bacon ### Possibly related posts:

Bacon Mints

aaron cohen — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:28:36 +0000

A friend gave me bacon mints for my birthday. While expected just a bacon flavored candy, I was surprised to find so much more. There's actually some mint in there - smoky, salty mint. Thanks, Will! ###Possibly related posts:Maple Bacon Lollipops Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo Bacon Cheeseburger With Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwiches as [...] ### Possibly related posts:

How Bacon is Made

aaron cohen — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:05:49 +0000

I don't know why friends started sending me their bacon links. At some point people started associating me with bacon and now I can't shake it. I'm their bacon guy. Somehow, in the same vein, my mother is the giraffe lady. As a school teacher, and known as the giraffe lady, my mother would consistently get 6-10 giraffes per holiday season and 6-10 giraffes at the end of the year. Giraffe plates, pins, statues, paintings, socks, clocks, etc, etc, etc. It hasn't gotten that bad for me yet. But I'm going to have to consider putting an end to it before it becomes serious.

Last year on Christmas, my father-in-law gave me a subscription to the Bacon of the Month Club. He didn't think 1 pound per month was enough, though, so he upgraded us to 2 pounds. Over the summer, with 6 pounds of bacon in the freezer, we called and asked them to hold our subscription until October and go month to month after that.

Here's how bacon is made, which isn't as gross as how hot dogs are made, but still eye opening.

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Do You Know Where Your Turkey Comes From? – The Food Link Round Up

aaron cohen — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:57:18 +0000

Sarah Palin caused an uproar a couple days ago by conducting an interview in front of a farmer slaughtering turkeys. I didn't follow much of it, but my main reaction to it was more on the side of "Really? That was the best place for an interview" aas opposed to "those poor turkeys". Though it lead me to this article by Patrick Martins, director of Slow Food USA. (Speaking of Slow Food...)

When you sit down to your Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, waiting for the main attraction to be brought in on a platter, take a moment to think about where it came from and how it found its way to your table.

So where's my turkey coming from? I wasn't sure my mom would know, but she did. Plainville Farms. I looked through the website and didn't find much of anything except they have a ton of USDA labels about how they treat their animals. So I feel a little better that at least I know. So where's your turkey from?

I had meant to post Michael Pollan's latest (now 5 weeks old) NY Times effort -
An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief - and this is as good a post to do it in. We're in full food round up mode now, folks. It was neat how Pollan responded to readers' comments in a different section, that's a good move on the NY Times' part.

And here's an interview with Pollan from The American Conservative where he talks about the idea of food security being something the Right and the Left can work together on. Interesting parts:

You see it in other traditions, too: the Mayans also had grain reserves. Now the amount of grain we have worldwide is a six- or eight-day supply. If there were a major shock to the system, people would go hungry quickly. It was one of the reforms of the Nixon administration to get rid of the grain reserve under enormous pressure from agribusiness and big grain traders who wanted more control over the market and wanted to be able to speculate on grain prices.

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“Arugula,” we should remember, is a marketing term invented by somebody who thought that this very common green, known by farmers all over the Midwest for many years as “rocket,” needed to be tuned up and given new appeal. It’s a complete marketing creation, and it’s completely ruined a very healthy green—at least from a political point of view.

Here's the NY Times late to the chocolate covered bacon (bacolate) party we covered last year here and here.

Shopsin's from April 2002:

What does happen occasionally is that Kenny gets an idea for a dish and writes on the specials board— yes, there is a specials board—something like Indomalekian Sunrise Stew. (Kenny and his oldest son, Charlie, invented the country of Indomalekia along with its culinary traditions.) A couple of weeks later, someone finally orders Indomalekian Sunrise Stew and Kenny can’t remember what he had in mind when he thought it up. Fortunately, the customer doesn’t know, either, so Kenny just invents it again on the spot.

Here's a 2004 article from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, on Bush's USDA. There's too much in here to quote, so just read the whole thing.

And of course I would be remiss for not posting the interview that started the post off. An, no, THE epic definition of political blindness, unless of course the GOP base rallies around stuff like this.

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Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo

aaron cohen — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:38:13 +0000

Via Erika, not only does this tuxedo look like bacon, it smells like bacon, too. It says dry clean only, but, uh, doesn't that get rid of the bacon smell?

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Baconnaise

aaron cohen — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:36:57 +0000

Baconnaise, from the makers of bacon salt, of course. ###Possibly related posts:Bacon Bikini Salt and Chocolate and Caramel Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo ### Possibly related posts:

Gummy Bacon

aaron cohen — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:56:33 +0000

Gummy Bacon, but its strawberry flavored, which sounds gross. ###Possibly related posts:Bacon Cheeseburger With Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwiches as Buns Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo Bacon Mints ### Possibly related posts:

Bacon Cheeseburger With Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwiches as Buns

aaron cohen — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:57:54 +0000

The title says everything and I want to try this.

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Simply (?!) Breakfast

matt — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:21:37 +0000

This site makes me envious, sad, angry, and hungry, kind of all at once. Who has time and energy enough in the morning not only to think of a different delicious-looking breakfast every day, but to also compose a beautiful photo of it? Most mornings for me involve either a hasty bowl of cereal or a granola bar on my way out the door. What I wouldn't give to be able to make what appears to be an omelet with sundried tomatoes and mozzarella in the morning! Or an egg and bacon sandwich on real bread!

Does anyone have any advice on how to turn oneself from a night person into a morning person?

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Canned Bacon

aaron cohen — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:53:11 +0000

For all you folks preparing for some sort of disaster, don't forget your bacon in a can. It lasts for 10 years. Apparently it's been around for a long time, and actually, I'm intrigued by this. Do you think it's crispy or rubbery?

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Now They’re Sending CARTOONS about Bacon

aaron cohen — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:09:07 +0000

xkcd says it all about a lot of things, now it's saying it all about bacon.

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