That screenshot is old enough to be in grade school.
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Was that around the time when they had bacon flavored everything and motherfuckers were getting bacon tattoos?
The Bacon Tuxedo was from 2007, and when that happened I remember thinking "Ok, this bacon thing has gone too far." The Beggin Strips "bacon bacon bacon... It's Bacon!!" commercial first aired in 1989.
I knew beggin' strips were way before, but I remember a brief period where there were bacon mints, bacon soap, bacon soda, bacon candy, bacon tattoos....bacon everything. I want to say it wasn't long after a whole bunch of folks were getting those mustache tattoos on their fingers but I'm getting older and my perception of time is warped.
I think this post must've been made at the tail end of "the narwhal bacons at midnight, lol holds up spork I'm so random" age of the Internet.
I haven't heard a peep about bacon in ages.
I haven’t even seen bacon donuts in a few years
So? Hammurabi died in 1754 BCE but we still say an eye for an eye.
Who said bacon? Where is it? Put it in my orifices
(Edit) don't ban me. It was shit talking that I figured was going to be reciprocated
Oh sure, Everyone wants free love but the one time you pork pork, it’s suddenly wrong, what I and a consenting breakfast does in the bedroom or fridge is none of your business.
Sure, sure but I LIKE bacon.
I've heard there's a seaweed that can be prepared to seem pretty close to bacon. I eat real bacon on occasion but I'd love to try the seaweed if I could ever find it.
As a non-vegan, sometimes alternatives are delicious. Like I drink oat milk because it's way better than cow milk. I also love vegan breakfast sausage. Now I'm really curious about this seaweed
Sort of tangential, but I accidentally left out some nori seaweed sheets (like the super plain kind) on a humid day, so just tried toasting them a lil in the toaster oven, and it made them good.
Perfect for a crunchy sushi handroll.
I'm a meatasaurus but I had veggie sausage in elementary school and one day decades later I needed it and I eat it all the time now it's so good.
Sounds like it meatastisized.
Is this not what I’m supposed to be using it for?
I'm not vegan but I think people are weird about bacon and pizza.
Same!
Are you someone who likes sweet stuff more than savoury? I'm not into sweet stuff and don't get the fuss about chocolate, but a nice savoury salty or spicy thing does it for me.
I guess everyone has different tastes.
no i like meat more than sweets but both bacon and pizza are overrated af. my taste is more middle eastern though, so lamb meat, kebab, hummus etc are more my kind of tastes.
i didn't wanna go much into detail about this on vegan comm but here we are.
Haha I have similar tastes, love a kebab.
Maybe those foods seem overrated because they are so accessible and easy to cook (few ingredients)? Easy things to start with if you're learning to cook.
As someone who is not vegan and does eat bacon on occasion, I approve this meme.
I honestly think part of (but definitely not all of) the resistance against veganism is the perceived pushiness of it, similar to the pushiness some have around detesting anyone who eats meat. I’ve tried to be vegetarian several times and found that I personally don’t have the discipline to stick with it because of societal pressures and the difficulty in finding variety, but I know a lot of people that reject even that outright because of the “all or nothing” attitude that media and some groups/individuals presents around vegetarianism/veganism.
Long story short, I’m proud of those who can do it, but I’m just not there yet. Maybe someday.
societal pressures and the difficulty in finding variety
Are there specific things you've missed? And are you more referring to cook yourself or eating out?
Sometimes, it's just a lack of experience. Obviously, 'all vegan food in the world' is less variety on paper than 'all food in the world' but in my personal diet the variety of stuff I eat dramatically increased compared to the non-vegan past.
In arts there's the concept of creative limitation and from my perspective that is 100% applicable to food. Restricting yourself to plant based fosters your creativity to break with traditional recipes, try new combinations, replace X with Y or Z. I feel like I barely eat the same thing twice anymore.
I'm 100% with you on this. It sounds like copium, but creative limitation absolutely comes into play here. Before becoming pescetarian, vegetarian, and then eventually vegan, my diet was terrible and had almost no variety despite the fact that I like to cook for myself. If I went to a restaurant, it would be the one thing I knew I liked. At home, even though I could technically make essentially anything I wanted, there was an intense gravitational pull around meat and cheese keeping me in the same sets of dishes with little variety. It was generic burgers or pepperoni pizza or canned soup or basic burritos or pasta Alfredo/with meat sauce or paninis consisting of 90% meat/cheese and 10% everything else. If I was feeling "healthy", it was either a type of meat with a baked potato and broccoli or a salad of iceberg lettuce with ranch, garlic croutons, bacon bits, and cranberries.
Now, I try (and often end up loving) new foods almost on instinct including the "weird" ones; I've come to understand that so many foods I didn't previously like were either prepared improperly or I wasn't getting the right kind; the meals are almost inherently healthier; I use a huge variety of spices and sauces to make my meals different and vibrant every single day; and my dishes don't revolve around essentially "a single type of meat with some ancillary stuff" or cheese and carbs.
Nothing was physically stopping me from doing that on an omnivorous diet, but I personally would never have because I treated meat and cheese like a crutch.
Can cats eat bacon?
No, that amount of sodium will give them pancreatitis.