If you grew up anything like me, you absolute LOVE eating Bacon and watching the Star Wars. I’m talking the awesome, original trilogy of the film, back in the days when #4 came before #1, and after #7, unless #7 got cancelled due to lack of interest.
You remember … Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Sir Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing and the hauntingly mesmerizing, if not a bit breathy voice of James Earl Jones. None of that Jar Jar Binks or that irritating flying shop owner who greedily runs the local junk yard.
Meanwhile, bacon was the official way to start off each and every weekend of a lifetime, or at least, a perfect childhood. Who could resist waking up with a smile on your face and skip in your step, when your first conscious moment of the weekend is waking up to the alluring aroma of bacon cooking in the kitchen, perfectly setting the tone and mood “for the rest of the day”… and only to discover year later, “for the rest of my life.”
Fellow Bacon Freak, Brad England, sent me this horrifying message & picture via text message:
TEXT FROM BRAD: This photo was taken at 8:10 p.m. EDT at the Pompano Beach, FL, Costco Wholesale store. …I got to the end of the aisle that had spices and seasonings and noticed this bag on the end cap. It was not refrigerated.
ME: EW! Is it bacon or salad?
TEXT FROM BRAD: And I get what you’re saying now, it DOES look like a bag of salad! I didn’t notice until I looked at the picture again. Gross. That’s my opinion, anyway.
ME: Gross is a gross understatement.
WHY would Costco do this to bacon? What did bacon do to tick Costco off? And WHY ISN’T IT REFRIGERATED? What kind of horrible chemicals and preservatives are keeping that bag’s ecosystem running? Do I need to get a documentary crew out there? I have so many questions…
I don’t know if you all have seen the recent commercial by Jack in the Box, that says, “Bacon makes everything better, especially bacon.”
This got me thinking, is there anything that isn’t better with bacon?
Hamburgers, better with bacon. Steaks and scallops better when wrapped in bacon. Eggs so much better with bacon. Salad, add some bacon and its better. Baked potatoes again, you guessed it better with bacon.
Bacon can add a variety of different flavors that brings any dish to that next level weather you are cooking for yourself or family and friends. Bacon can be sweet, it can be savory, it can be Smokey, it can be flavored, but whatever food you are cooking up, it is better with bacon.
Bacon has this unique ability to go with so many of the everyday foods that we eat.
Because we all agree that bacon has a magical ability to make almost any food better (lets face it you are reading a blog all about bacon), why not keep your kitchen well stocked with a variety of different bacon products.
Jennifer Eolin for Bacon Freak: Hi, Nicky. Thanks for doing this interview with me.
Nicky Stein-Grohs: Of course, Jennifer. How could I turn down an opportunity to discuss bacon?
Jennifer: I saw your bacon bra photo on the internet and thought, “Man, I need to know this lady.”
Jennifer continues: So let’s start at the beginning, what brought you to bacon?
Nicky: Hmmm, probably the deliciousness.
Jennifer: That is reason enough! So how long have you been addicted to bacon?
Nicky: I wouldn’t say I’m addicted. But I love it. Sometimes I want to be a vegetarian but I think I’d be a “bacontarian” instead. I think my love for bacon has been growing for most of my life. I think it came to a culmination a couple years ago. I was dating a guy who really liked to cook breakfast and breakfast is my favorite meal. We ate a lot of bacon, he introduced me to bacon and cream cheese on a bagel which is now my favorite, and I started experimenting with combinations.
