Thursday, August 7, 2008

Bacon Never Sleeps

Posted by Jim Ridley on Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:00 AM

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Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey. Mmmm...can't you just smell that aroma of sizzling pork wafting from your alarm clock? Brent Rolen sent us a link to this Mathlete report (see swiped photo above) on a clever little gizmo timed to cook a bacon strip under halogen lamps inside a clock radio. When the alarm goes off, the radio issues not a shrieking siren but the irresistible smell of yummy bacon. In theory, you'd wake up hungry and nostalgic for Mom's pre-school breakfasts. In practice, you'd probably wake up thinking the house was on fire and bolt into the front yard in your underwear.

What this sounds like is the ultimate stealth device for the overnight conversion of vegetarians. It's a diabolical Invasion of the Body Snatchers scenario: Unsuspecting herbivores go to bed with visions of tofu dancing in their heads, until the seductive perfume of Hormel's finest slowly fogs their senses. Their taste buds are no longer their own. Next thing you know, they're licking the grease off discarded Baconator wrappers and gazing lustfully at the cover of Charlotte's Web.

And you can't have bacon without something tall and cool to wash it down, right? Here's a little something to quench your pork-stoked thirst: bacon vodka. Still not sated? How about a nice chocolate bacon bar. Or bacon chocolate-chip cookies. Or maybe just a nice chaser of bacon beer.

You can run, plant eaters, but you'll have to stop sometime. And when you do, the clock will be waiting. The alarm is already set. The hour of bacon is at hand.

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Bacon dryer sheets come to mind.

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Posted by Carrington on 08/07/2008 at 10:19 AM

i came across this a week or so again and forwarded it to my best friend who is also quite the bacon fan. we had a good laugh. it's too fabulous...
this would not be the best gift to buy for our beloved lesley...

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Posted by claudia (cook eat FRET) on 08/07/2008 at 12:14 PM

Clearly we need to sell this apparatus at Mitchell Deli. Where can we get a line on these?

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Posted by chefjulia on 08/07/2008 at 12:43 PM

The bacon thing has really gotten out of control.

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Posted by Lesley on 08/07/2008 at 2:31 PM

Hard to resist, eh, Lesley?

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Posted by mr. pink on 08/07/2008 at 3:06 PM

lesley is a staunch bacon hater from way back
and yrs, it's one of her lesser qualities
i just see her as disabled, and love her despite her flaw... it's what friends do...

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Posted by claudia (cook eat FRET) on 08/07/2008 at 6:36 PM
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