I just came home with this bar that is:applewood smoked bacon, alder wood smoked salt, deep milk chocolate,41% cacao. I didn't know you were allowed to do this. I've had the idea of bacon gum before, but this is a whole other level. Then I logged on and found the bacon mania piece.

"Why are Americans so batty for bacon?" What's next? "Why people like sex?" "Why people get addicted to heroin?"

Is there any more delicious food on Earth?

Uh, because it smells and tastes great?

Beggin' Strips. Dogs don't know it's not bacon. Anyone else remember those commercials? I get this weird feeling every time it comes on. The dog's frenzied need for bacon is just too human and then we give it fake bacon!

Back in the day when Fox News was trying to get everyone to refer to people in the drug trade as "narco-terrorists", I was trying to live a life without pork and beef. I'd ask the server, "Is there any meat in this?", and he or she would say No, then I'd ask the server to tell me the ingredients, and the response was "blah, blah, blah, bacon, blah, blah". Apparently bacon is not considered meat by many people.

So I called these people "porko-terrorists" -- people who try to stick pork in everything without you knowing it.

It's made out of kosher beef, it's called beef fry, but we former secular-now religious Jews know it as kosher bacon. Completely substitutable, better than turkey bacon (which I preferred in my non-kosher days to pig bacon).

It's basically salty, savory, fatty candy.

Mr. Smith:

Bacon IS a vegetable, there's even a T-shirt:

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/shirts/baconisavegetable/

What are your favorite foods? Bacon, bacon, bacon...

In other countries, they have other bacon. We all know and do not prefer Candin Bacon. Have you ever had Greek Bacon? It appears to be undercooked, but it tastes wonderful. When in the course of human events, bacon comes to my plate, I will eat it. Yummy bacon is lacking in Iraq and in Israel and Palestine, and that is why those places have so much trouble.

I truly feel the need to find an all night diner.

Anyone up for a road trip?

for a package of bacon and a roll of paper towels

you can get a bacon martini at the Double Down in Vegas

8. Bacon is pure cruelty. Go to a hog farm, gourmands; I'll bet even you will cry your eyes out.

I put bacon on my burger when I order double cheese.

I put bacon on my salad, but I throw away the leaves.

I grind bacon into powder and I mix it with my salt.

I blend bacon with my ice cream and I make a bacon malt.

I eat bacon all alone, I'll eat bacon in a group.

I eat bacon chopped and mixed into my chicken noodle soup.

I'll eat bacon with Doritos, and entire can of Spam.

And I'll even top it off with Soylent Green Eggs and Ham!

BACON IS DELICIOUS, IS SO YUMMY, IS SO GREAT!

BACON IS THE SUBSTANCE STACKED A FOOT HIGH ON MY PLATE!

BACON IS SO TASTY, IS SO AWESOME, IS THE BEST!

BACON IS THE FOOD THAT I KEEP TUCKED INSIDE MY VEST!

Go to a hog farm, gourmands; I'll bet even you will cry your eyes out.

Not for long. Then they'll collapse from the stench.

The huge cattle lots make beef equally unappealing.

Bacon produced by small farms, from pigs that are treated humanely, is even more delicious, and well worth the markup.

Why are Americans so batty for bacon?

Because they're swine (see Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld and their voters for reference).

oh my gosh I love bacon. I love thick bacon and then I like thick bacon cooked as crispy as possible, just short of burning it but please don't burn it. And I love the parts that are so fatty that they don't crisp up. . I like the crispy bits to surround the soft fatty bits. Yum yum yum.

gosh, it's been a while, perhaps several months, since I've had bacon. me want bacon now. There is some in my freezer, if I put it out before heading to bed, it will be thawed for breakfast.

How could I forget bacon?!

thank you, salon, for bringing me to my senses.

For you animal rights commentators, chillax. You should relax and, sure, be an activist and advance your anti-meat beliefs, this is a sorta free country and all . . . but leave me alone with my bacon

I am reminded of the A. A. Milne poem from Now We Are Six. The king asks for some butter on his bread and the queen asks the maid who asks the dairy maid who asks the guernsey and the guernsey says 'I am told that marmalade is tasty when very thinly spread' and all those servants report back and the queen suggests marmalade to the king and he says 'My dear, I am not a fussy man but I do like a little bit of butter on his bread". In the end, he gets his butter, the guernsey meant no harm when she suggested marmalade.

To you animal rights folks, I say: we are never going to solve all the problems in the world if, in order to do so, everyone has to think the same things. This means that it is extremely unlikely that all humans are going to stop eating meat/animals. We have so many things we need to work on, so much that needs changing. Couldn't we all agree that nobody is ever going to have the exact same ideas as anyone else and so then, in public discussions, even unimportant ones about bacon, we would just skip the dogmatic crapola. . . we're having fun here, loving bacon, leave us alone. sure, save the animals but accept reality: you are never going to see an end to meateating so use your good life force more effectively. eat greens if you must but leave me and my bacon alone.