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Funny ad from Oscar Mayer - with corporate headquarters in Madison - is part parody of those soft-focus jewelry ads for women that appear during Christmas and Mother's Day, and part real thing. Too bad they couldn't get Jane Seymour to appear in it.

An absolutely adorable little piggy goes down the stairs and is rewarded with a delicious plate of oatmeal. A little pig and his oatmeal

Who doesnt love bacon?

How many times have you looked at pigs in a blanket with a side-eyed glance, secretly wishing those blankets were made of bacon — pigs in a pig blanket, if you will? Maybe often, perhaps never, but fans of all things pork are surely rejoicing at the news that Oscar Mayer is debuting bacon hot dogs this summer. Yes, you read that correctly — hot dogs with the flavor of bacon. No need to wrap your pork in pork by hand, in other words. “No one knows bacon like Oscar Mayer,” Jared Baker, director of Oscar Mayer hot dogs *,...

A 105-year-old Texas woman has earned a place in almost all headlines by revealing the most unlikely secret to her long life. Strangely, her key to longevity is bacon. Yes, you read it right; 105-year-old Pearl Cantrell loves to eat bacon and feasts on it almost every day. Her story, for sure, will be a subject of research for most health scientists. Pearl Cantrell, who's mostly referred to as the '105-year-old bacon woman', said in an interview with a local NBC station, "I love bacon and I eat it everyday. I don't feel as old as I am, that's all...

At 105-YEARS-OLD, Pearl Cantrell most definitely wants bacon with that. "I love bacon, I could eat it for every meal - and I do!", the Texas granny told a local TV station... News of her faith in bacon reached a local producer, Oscar Mayer. They organised a special treat via fast food outlet Weinermobile.

Ikea says it has withdrawn 17,000 portions of moose lasagna from its home furnishings stores in Europe after traces of pork were found in a batch tested in Belgium. Ikea spokeswoman Tina Kardum said the product had only been on sale for a month when it was pulled off the shelves on March 22. The company didn't announce the withdrawal publicly until Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet wrote about it Saturday. Kardum said the company found out Friday that a follow-up test in Belgium confirmed the lasagna contained 1.6 percent pork.

I don't think this what Bill Gates had in mind when he offered $100,000 to someone to invent the next generation condom. Just when you though the bacon fad was fizzling out, J&D's Foods --the same Seattle-based company that brought us the bacon coffin and bacon mayonnaise (all real products) -- now has introduced Bacon Condoms that claims to "make your meat look like meat." As an added bonus, each condom is coated with its very own J&D’s baconlube.

AP re-post.The creativity of bacon art continues.

Bacon Bacon is too much bacon for one manA certain San Francisco restaurant is so odorous that a noisy neighbor's complaints threaten to shutter it over the smell. Of bacon. Bacon Bacon is the eatery, and it's no surprise what the Haight Ashbury restaurant specializes in. More surprising is the problem an anonymous complainant has -- with the smell of bacon. More people appear to be a fan, with 1,100 swine fans signing an online petition in support of the restaurant. The eatery needed to reapply for permits to remain open. That allowed a neighbor with a distaste for bacon...

LONDON: The bacon and sausage on your plate or those steaming hot pies are increasing your chances of premature death from cancer and heart disease. Processed meat is to blame for one in 30 early deaths, a large-scale study has now found. The EPIC (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) study involving 10 countries and 23 centres in Europe and almost half a million people has found that risk of premature death increased with the amount of processed meat eaten by a person. According to the study, even one sausage a day is bad for your health. The researchers...

If you love sausages, hot dogs, and brats, you might be in for a shorter life, a new study suggests. The study analyzed data from half a million men and women, as a part of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. It was published in the journal BMC Medicine [PDF]. They found a link between "processed" meat — which includes all meat products, including ham, bacon, sausages; small part of minced meat that has been bought as a ready-to-eat product — and cardiovascular disease and cancer, they report. Also, they found that the more processed meat you eat...

The smell of bacon was in the air Saturday as thousands converged on Iowa's capital city for an increasingly popular festival celebrating all things connected with the meat. Some people wore Viking hats and others walked around with makeshift snouts for the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. The annual event featured more than 10,000 pounds of bacon served in unusual ways, such as chocolate-dipped bacon and bacon-flavored cupcakes and gelato. "I love bacon more than I love my job," said Katie Nordquist, who was dressed in a tuxedo T-shirt that looked like bacon Saturday for her first time at the festival.

Presidents are usually so far removed from us that we never appreciate how they can impact our daily lives. Here is how Ronald Reagan touched two lives on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain: ours. BILL I grew up as an Air Force brat. In 1962 my father was stationed Newfoundland, Canada where I was born. By age 11, I had visited or lived in 19 states and traveled to six foreign countries. From 1971 to 1973, my family lived in Taiwan while my father flew combat missions in and out of Vietnam. I had the early experience of knowing...

You probably saw Detroit Councilwoman JoAnn Watson yesterday(snip)Here’s an updated-for-entertainment-value version of JoAnn’s dissertation on quid pro quo   "After the election of Jimmy Carter, the honorable Coleman Alexander Young, he went to Washington, D.C. He came home with some bacon," said Watson. "That's what you do." I thought you might enjoy a little history lesson, and see some of the “bacon” that the honorable and legendary Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young brought home from then President Jimmy Carter’s stash. Let’s just remember who owns whom here Jimmy-boy The primo bacon prize was surely the Detroit People Mover: A train...

Just a little humor. The local grocery store where I live still has a real real meat counter. They don't shrink wrap meat, everything is in the case or cut for you, Recently a Muslim was hired by the store. Instead of protesting when he serves me, I make him serve me pork. I am not too nice about it, I make him touch a lot of pork before buying any meat, which maybe beef or chicken.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - First, there was Bacon Salt. Then there was Baconnaise. Now the two guys who started the bacon craze are launching a new product, Bacon Shaving Cream. Justin and Dave, the men behind J&D Foods , are introducing their Bacon Shaving Cream for a limited time. They say they created only 2500 jars of the "pork-scented lather of the gods" and will start selling it today, November 28. The guys, who call themselves "Bacontrepreneurs," claim it is best used "after a hot shower or before an important date."

“If the election was held today, President Barack Obama would lose the state of Wisconsin because where his base is, we have not turned out the vote early," Mayor Michael Hancock told a Democratic rally. "The suburbs and rural parts of Wisconsin – the Republican base – are voting. President Obama’s base has yet to go vote. "We've got to get our people to go vote," Hancock said. Early voting, which began in Wisconsin on Oct. 22, is a central component of Obama’s strategy to win the state. The president won Wisconsin four years ago by 14 percentage points, but...

Burglary With a Side of Bacon A man who was caught frying bacon in one of the University City homes he burglarized pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years in prison. The man admitted his part in the crimes in St. Louis County Circuit Court and was immediately sentenced to concurrent seven-year terms. Last September a woman reported encountering the man in her home and that he was frying bacon in her kitchen after stealing items there.

On Wednesday morning, Terry V. Garner, a 70-year-old Oregon farmer, went to feed his animals. Several hours later, when he hadn’t returned, a family member went to look for him and found, on the ground of the hog enclosure, his dentures.