Bacon Freak Blog

If you won the lottery, what would you do?  A lucky couple in Bath, England, won £56 million in the  EuroMillions Lottery Draw and celebrated by noshing on bacon butties.

“Butties” are what they call sandwiches in England.  Aren’t the English cute?   It’s apparently short for “buttered bread.”  I still can’t help but giggle like a 12-year-old though when I read the word “butties.”  The imagery is just too much when matched with my immaturity…

I really hope that this event spurs more people to celebrate with bacon.

I, for one, did just that in my (first) wedding.  I’m not kidding, folks.  We actually spoke of bacon in our vows.  Oh sure, we sullied bacon’s good name by splitting up 4 years later, but that’s neither here nor there.  The point is, bacon is just that awesome.  (PS – I go the bacon in the divorce.  Squeee!)

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Ok, while in some corners of the world, perhaps Wendy’s exciting, new release of their “Bacon and Blue Burger” might not incite as much enthusiastically electric and eclectic interest and conversation as ….oh I don’t know … say … the Oscars, The NBA Playoffs, or what’s apparently new on supposedly never scripted or prearranged “Reality TV.”

But around here, the BUZZ about Wendy’s newly featured food fair is quickly becoming all the rage, and personally I’m one of the happy cowboys riding that bull all the way back to “Satisfaction Street!”

We’re talking North American Beef, generously covered with “real” blue cheese crumbles, a hearty layer of freshly cooked Apple-wood Smoked Bacon, topped off with some deliciously delightful sautéed onions and a pretty decent creamy steakhouse sauce.

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OK … normally I would never consider giving such valuable ink, prominent space or personal and professional props to any one, single establishment, within the same month, let alone the same week, but there’s a good reason for me to do so this week.

After showing the entire country that they truly are a family oriented restaurant run by sincerely caring human beings, by offering free short-stacks of pancakes to raise money for The Children’s Miracle Network .

The good folks over at The International House Of Pancakes, now more commonly and simply referred to as IHOP are using their business wisdom and understanding of culture and human psychology by cashing in on the massive popularity of Bacon-Mania!

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Not to be outdone by Denny’s, IHOP has their own free breakfast of their own coming up!

It’s IHOP’s National Pancake Day Celebration, Wednesday, February 23^rd.  From 7am to 10pm, customers can get a small 3-stack of buttermilk pancakes for free.  Which means more money for bacon!

Or to donate to the local children’s hospitals that they support through Children’s Miracle Network.

I for one support all this free breakfast food giveaways.  Especially in these lean times, it’s nice to know that fatty bacon is always just a plate away.

– Jennifer Eolin

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That’s it… I’m turning in my cell phone (that is so low rent it only makes phone calls and sends texts – ghetto!) and getting myself a shiny, new grill.  Ahem… I mean… Um…  Actually I don’t know what I mean.

The people at G-Monkey took it upon themselves to create an “app” for the iPhone and iPod Touch for all of us bacon fanatics out there.  At first upon hearing this news, I was terribly giddy.  Then I watched their YouTube video about the app and thought, “Well now that I’ve seen it, WHY do I need it?”

Biggest bummer about the app:  NO REAL BACON.  After suffering through the delicious soundscape of pops, sizzles and crackles as the porky goodness bubbles on a stove-top grill, there are no rewards.  Not even a grease burn on our hand to show our spoils of war!  People, this app is a classic example of what I like to call a “bacon tease.”  HMPH!

So unless someone can figure out how to get real bacon to pop out of the USB port (squeeee!) I’d like to suggest some “additional apps” that can be downloaded to make this whole fake experience complete: Read the rest of this entry →