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Bacon Aphorisms


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The reference to Hemingway reminds me of the apocryphal exchange he had with F. Scott Fitzgerald (a version ended up in The Bacon of Kilimanjaro):

“The very rich are different from you and me.”

“Yes, they have more bacon.”

A similar version is recounted in Fitzgerald's The Rich Boy.

Suprisingly, Fitzgerald otherwise seems to have avoided the subject, with the exception of the remarkable short story Bernice Bobs for Bacon.

edit: spellig

Edited by Dave the Cook (log)

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Eat more chicken skin.

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Perhaps in all started with the Bard, and his unforgettable works The Merchant of Bacon and "As You Like (Your Bacon)."

"All humans are out of their f*cking minds -- every single one of them."

-- Albert Ellis

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Ask not what your bacon can do for you, but ask what can you do for your bacon!

John Sconzo, M.D. aka "docsconz"

"Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster."

- Ferran Adria on eGullet 12/16/2004.

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To bacon or not to bacon, that is the question! Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the skings and arrows of a bacon-less breakfast or to continue to sleep, perchance to dream (of bacon)....

John Sconzo, M.D. aka "docsconz"

"Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster."

- Ferran Adria on eGullet 12/16/2004.

Docsconz - Musings on Food and Life

Slow Food Saratoga Region - Co-Founder

Twitter - @docsconz

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In the beginning when God created bacon and sausage, pork was a formless meat and salt covered the face of the pork, while smoke from God swept over the face of the pork.

Then God said, "Let there be bacon!"; and there was bacon. And God saw that the bacon was good; and God separated the smoked meat from the unsmoked meat. God called the smoked meat Bacon, and the unsmoked meat he called Pork Belly. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

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Tell me what bacon you eat, and I'll tell you what you are.

Kathy

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. - Harriet Van Horne

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Okay, this was a stretch (a poem, not an aphorism after all), but perhaps someone could improve upon it:

I think that I shall never dig

A poem lovely as a pig.

An egulleter whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the bread's sweet flowing breast;

A giving hog that's destined to croak

And offers its ample haunches to smoke;

A swine that may in summer wear

A nest of lettuce and tomato fair

Upon whose bread mayo has spread;

Who doesn't care if it makes him dead.

Poems are made by fools like me

But only God can make a BLT.

I have tears in my eyes...that was beautiful. :raz:

Heather Johnson

In Good Thyme

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Okay, this was a stretch (a poem, not an aphorism after all), but perhaps someone could improve upon it:

I think that I shall never dig

A poem lovely as a pig.

An egulleter whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the bread's sweet flowing breast;

A giving hog that's destined to croak

And offers its ample haunches to smoke;

A swine that may in summer wear

A nest of lettuce and tomato fair

Upon whose bread mayo has spread;

Who doesn't care if it makes him dead.

Poems are made by fools like me

But only God can make a BLT.

OK... That just about tops anything I have ever read here. Now I have to go clear the merlot out of my nose.

Linda LaRose aka "fifi"

"Having spent most of my life searching for truth in the excitement of science, I am now in search of the perfectly seared foie gras without any sweet glop." Linda LaRose

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Okay, this was a stretch (a poem, not an aphorism after all), but perhaps someone could improve upon it:

I think that I shall never dig

A poem lovely as a pig.

An egulleter whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the bread's sweet flowing breast;

A giving hog that's destined to croak

And offers its ample haunches to smoke;

A swine that may in summer wear

A nest of lettuce and tomato fair

Upon whose bread mayo has spread;

Who doesn't care if it makes him dead.

Poems are made by fools like me

But only God can make a BLT.

OK... That just about tops anything I have ever read here. Now I have to go clear the merlot out of my nose.

bout time I got the mad props...

peak performance is predicated on proper pan preparation...

-- A.B.

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Let us not forget that a government big enough to give us all (the bacon) we want is also big enough to take all (the bacon) we have.

Dwight David Eisenbacon

Ruth Dondanville aka "ruthcooks"

“Are you making a statement, or are you making dinner?” Mario Batali

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Okay, this was a stretch (a poem, not an aphorism after all), but perhaps someone could improve upon it:

I think that I shall never dig

A poem lovely as a pig.

An egulleter whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the bread's sweet flowing breast;

A giving hog that's destined to croak

And offers its ample haunches to smoke;

A swine that may in summer wear

A nest of lettuce and tomato fair

Upon whose bread mayo has spread;

Who doesn't care if it makes him dead.

Poems are made by fools like me

But only God can make a BLT.

It's been a really long, ugly day.

This made it all better. :smile:

Thanks.

Edited to add :

You must be "A Man For All Bacon"

Edited by monkeymay (log)

We need to find courage, overcome

Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction

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God grant me the serenity to accept the bacon that has not been smoked;

the courage to smoke the bacon that I can;

and the wisdom to ask for seconds.

"I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast;

but we like hot butter on our breakfast toast!"

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