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Why Bacon Is A Gateway To Meat For Vegetarians
NPR ^ | January 28, 2011 | Eliza Barclay

Posted on 01/29/2011 6:10:00 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh

Recently, an old friend who's been a vegetarian for more than 15 years shocked us with a story: Last weekend, she ate bacon. Several strips. Straight out of the frying pan where her boyfriend was cooking it.

This wasn't the first time she'd encountered it sizzling there, in all its glistening glory. But for some reason, this time it overpowered her. She was guilty yet gleeful when she told us that she'd allowed bacon back into her life.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bacon; vegetarians
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To: Malone LaVeigh

More like 90 percent fat.


21 posted on 01/29/2011 6:24:28 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: tet68
Bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon BACON!!

I'd get it myself but I don't have thumbs!

22 posted on 01/29/2011 6:24:35 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Mrs. Slim had been a veggie for 12 years when I met her.

Bacon is exactly the means I used to fix that.


23 posted on 01/29/2011 6:25:00 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Jubtabulously We Thrive!)
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To: Drango

LOL!


24 posted on 01/29/2011 6:25:09 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: traderrob6

Mmmmmm...bacon and fried eggs!


25 posted on 01/29/2011 6:25:41 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Linda Frances

wild boar bacon is pretty weak. no fat content.


26 posted on 01/29/2011 6:26:22 AM PST by beebuster2000
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
"I see Canadian bacon as spam with a superiority complex."

And your problem with spam is....?

I LOVES my spam...especially...


27 posted on 01/29/2011 6:28:07 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Get a big cookie sheet and a raised cooling rack. Bake the bacon at 350 until crisp. Smells like heaven on earth.

For those inclined. Papa Murphy’s latest addition to the man pizza lineup, a little gem called “Bacon, Bacon, Bacon.”


28 posted on 01/29/2011 6:29:54 AM PST by IamConservative (Liberlism - the surety of knowing that which cannot be proven by fact.)
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To: Linda Frances

Eric Ripert has a wild boar meat recipe I am dying to try. It’s eaten with pasta.

And I like your idea of letting the hogs run free!!!


29 posted on 01/29/2011 6:30:14 AM PST by PrincessB (Drill Baby Drill.)
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To: decimon; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...

Yup, no doubt about it — bacon is the weapon of biomass destruction when it comes to dealing with vegetarians. Thanks Malone LaVeigh. Quinoa, whole grain pasta, beans, my ass.


30 posted on 01/29/2011 6:32:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Bacon! They even wrap lobster with it.


31 posted on 01/29/2011 6:32:47 AM PST by rsobin
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To: IamConservative

I wish I’d known that yesterday when I picked up a couple of pizzas for dinner! LOL Bacon is about the only meat my 6 y.o. daughter will eat.

BTW, that is how I cooked some bacon the other day, and there wasn’t a piece left...you would have thought I had put a giant plate of cookies on the table the way my kids gobbled it up! :)


32 posted on 01/29/2011 6:33:58 AM PST by Hoosier Catholic Momma (Arkansas resident of Hoosier upbringing--Yankee with a southern twang)
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To: Malone LaVeigh
http://www.baconsalt.com/
33 posted on 01/29/2011 6:34:20 AM PST by real saxophonist (The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. -USMC bandsman in Iraq)
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To: Joe 6-pack


34 posted on 01/29/2011 6:35:10 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Joe 6-pack
LOL! How true.

Me want!

35 posted on 01/29/2011 6:36:05 AM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

This is exactly what happened to my son’s friend who was raised a vegetarian. At age 21 he ate some bacon and he kissed his vegetarian ways good-bye, lol!


36 posted on 01/29/2011 6:36:50 AM PST by cantfindagoodscreenname (I really hate not knowing what was said in the deleted posts....)
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To: rsobin

Bacon makes wild game tastier.
Use venison or dove or duck pieces, cut a slit into the meat, insert a piece of jalapeno and wrap in bacon secured with a toothpick. Cook on the grill until the bacon is done. Eat the snack and use the toothpick to clean up.

Breakfast of champions.


37 posted on 01/29/2011 6:37:01 AM PST by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: Dutch Boy


38 posted on 01/29/2011 6:37:11 AM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: Drango


39 posted on 01/29/2011 6:37:54 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Brett66

I’m Ben Kenobi and I approve of this message. :)


40 posted on 01/29/2011 6:38:57 AM PST by BenKenobi (one of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.")
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