Comments on: Bacon Week: Bacon vs. Fake Bacon

By: Aaron J. Grier

Aaron J. Grier — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:38:40 +0000

another vote for the morningstar farms. if you like your real bacon crispy, bake the morningstar farms in a toaster oven. it’s freaky.

(tofu deep fried in bacon drippings is also excellent.)

By: Jeff Alworth

Jeff Alworth — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:30:48 +0000

Dude, you can’t taste-test a bacon product from a hippie outfit like Lightlife. You gotta go Morningstar farms. not only is the visual illusion far more impressive (fake ribbons of fat striate the strips), but they’ve somehow engineered the product to curl suggestively (if not convincingly). It ain’t bacon, but it’s close enough to satisfy meat-loving vegetarians.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:11:31 +0000

I’ve come to enjoy fake breakfast sausage links and patties but fake bacon is such an abomination. If there was a food science ethics board, they should be investigating.

That sandwich is beautiful.

By: Marci

Marci — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:56:12 +0000

As one of your vegan friends who never misses bacon, I commend you on your willingness to give Smart Bacon (which I love) a try. You are a good friend, but I, in turn, would never reverse such an experiment.

I will also not be baited into your attempt at engaging me in some debate over animal rights or heart disease. I see right through you, Dave Selden.

However, I will point out that you missed a great opportunity to use the word “fakon” in this post.

See you in the cardiac unit or in hell, because you will undoubtedly end up in one or the other;-)

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:47:36 +0000

I don’t remember if I found it here, but have you seen Jim Gaffigan’s “Bippity, Boppity, Bacon” routine? If so, sorry for the redundancy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aJ6bTnco00

Also, head over to The Sneeze dot com for someone who feels almost as strongly about bacon as I do.

Everything’s better with bacon!

By: Paul Souders

Paul Souders — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:27:07 +0000

Part time vegematarians (like, er, me) can’t resist bacon b/c bacon = (meat flavor) x 800,000,000. It’s like concentrated essence of meat. Many’s the gardenburger I’ve dressed with bacon.

People who don’t eat meat because they don’t like it (like Jenny) think bacon is the most repulsive stuff ever. For the same reason.

I have this whole riff about fake meat and monkeys and the uncanny valley but I’ll spare you. Basically fake meat is pointless and overpriced and not even many vegetablarians eat it. Anyone who has even a passing familiarity knows it’s nothing like meat. Except Quorn. Quorn is weirdly chicken-like. Fake meat is like those plastic nicarette cigarettes: “whoa, you miss smoking that much?“