Do NOT click on this link unless your love of bacon is strong enough to handle images of it in rapid deterioration!
Okay, now…take your time answering this one. On a scale of 1 to 10, how badly do you want to see pictures of rotting bacon? The answer to this question very well may play a strong factor in whether or not you want to scroll down.
Unfortunately we (the bacontarian team) have been unable to keep up with comment spam on this blog, so over the weekend, I (tkrag aka. master bacon) decided to try my hand at sifting through the mess of comments.
I failed , pretty miserably at that. I manage to make a corrupt backup, after which I decided to try my hand at abusing a few wordpress spam handling plugins with my leet scripting skillz. The end result is that i managed to delete every one of the 2136 comments that were held for moderation, and with a corrupt backup, I have no way of getting them back.
I am soooo sorry
As a form of repentance I decided to change the theme of the blog, and have added a page through which people can submit recipes and other good stories to the site. Hopefully this will let recipes and story suggestions bypass the broken comment system.
I am also looking at implementing some form of captcha top make the commenting system more sane. In the meantime, I have been forced to require registration for all commenters. Hopefullky this will go away soon.
Again, I am soooo sorry for the mess I’ve made, here’s to the lard of bacon!
Stamps released in China to celebrate the Year of the Pig taste of sweet and sour pork.
If anybody out there is going to china this year, please, please, please bring us some of these……
Peace Through Pork seems simple enough…
Drunken Frat Boy Explanation of the Peace Through Pork Agenda
Hello?!?
#1 Bacon is really tasty.
#2 People that don’t eat bacon obviously have issues.
BTW: They sell the Bacon wrist band on their site.
If my admittedly atrocious Italian serves me correctly this photo series depicts a flying pig contest at a show in Melbourne, Australia. Those Australians have all the fun.
Thanks to my friends in the Italian bacontarian support crew for the link.
Utah’s Desert News reports:Pig-out on bacon leads man straight to the pen
An uninvited dinner guest who apparently found himself in hog heaven inside a man’s Salt Lake apartment was arrested late Tuesday.
When the man who lived in the apartment opened his door near 100 West and 1700 South just before 11:30 p.m., he found a 45-year-old stranger sitting in his kitchen.
The man had fried up two pounds of bacon from the refrigerator and was eating it, said Salt Lake City police detective Robin Snyder.
The tenant didn’t waste any time squealing on the porker and called police. When officers arrived, they found the bacon-eater’s speech was so slurred that they didn’t even try to interview him, Snyder said. They just took him straight to jail for investigation of burglary.
The investigation into the incident was continuing Wednesday, including whether the man was intoxicated.
via Slashfood
This past weekend, friends from graduate school and I relived our bacony days of idyll in Charlottesville, Virginia. Among other things, we recreated our collective favorite food, Bacon- Wrapped Water Chestnuts, empirically proving that you can wrap bacon around anything and turn it into a successful snack food.
Here’s the recipe:
1 pound bacon
2 cans whole water chestnuts
1/3 c. mayonnaise
1/3 c. ketchup
1/3 c. brown sugar
Toothpicks
Flash fry the bacon (i.e., very quickly, to limp it up, but not brown it). Cut each bacon slice in half, and wrap each half around a water chestnut. Secure with a toothpick and place on a baking tray. Mix mayo, ketchup, and brown sugar, and then pour the mixture over the bacon bundles. Bake at 350 or so until the bacon looks crispy and sort of caramelized. Mmm.
I don’t know about you, but I think I’d rather deal with the odd clogged artery, than eat pork spliced with earthworm genes, but for those of us more worried about the health effects of excessive bacon eating, perhaps this is the nicotine patch they’ve been waiting for?
Healthy Bacon? Let us know what you think?
Making Bacon That’s Healthier for You A team of researchers may have found a way to make bacon that’s good for your heart. This stunning achievement comes from a mixture of molecular genetics, cloning, and good old American know-how. The key to this delicious prospect? A modified gene that changes some of the omega-6 fatty acids — which pigs normally create — into omega-3 fatty acids.
I’m well into my ham from Emile over at Caw Caw Creek. My rendered lard collection was at a critically low point this morning, but I have been saving the rind and fat that I trim from the ham for just such an occasion.
I tossed the rinds and fat in a pan, covering them with water so that they wouldn’t burn as they rendered, and turned up the heat.
Royal Bacon Society - The Ultimate Bacon Resource
The Royal Bacon Society really is the ultimate bacon resource. They’re not kidding. Great Recipes, Awesome wallpapers and fun bacon-goodness. Go visit. It’s beautiful….
From the world of pure deliciousness: Baconaisse
I haven’t tried it, but i will.
Especially if someone finds me a supplier in europe so it doesn’t rot while in the han ds of the danish customs and excise authority.
In a last-ditch effort at reviving the former granditude (grandness + attitude = granditude) of this blog, i’ve decided to move the blog to Tumblr.
Hopefully the easy posting etc will mean shorter, but more frequent updates.
For now the blog will be updated here: http://bacontarian.tumblr.com/
If the experiment turns out to be a success, i’ll change that to http://bacontarian.com/
Also the rss feed will move to http://feeds.feedburner.com/bacontarian
New posts will also end up on twitter @bacontarian.com
Welcome! Again!
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