Food & Drink May 7, 2009 at 4:00 am

The End of Baconmania

Our Long Coronary Nightmare Is Almost Over

Erica C. Barnett
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1
I take great comfort in the fact that despite recent popularity and slanderous articles, bacon will still be there for me just like it always has been, sizzlin' and poppin'
SPOSeattle on May 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM Report this
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Your timeline of bacon related items in no way reflects when such items came into being. At best, it's a reflection of when you became aware (and then bored) of them. I'm very excited at the possibility of the hipsters moving along to the next shiny thing and leaving the bacon where it belongs - in my belly. Nothing to see here, move along. Bacon has always and will always be awesome. Celery is only good for garnish in bacon bloody marys.

Seriously, I'm curious what makes you think "baconmania" is coming to an end. Nothing in your article points towards a slow down or decrease in bacon related goods, foods, or events. If anything you're making the case that it's still on the rise. Unless perhaps you're making the case that it's jumped the shark (it has) and therefore it *OBVIOUSLY* must be on the way out like any other fad-of-the-month.
on May 6, 2009 at 1:28 PM Report this
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Baconmania is over like the Sonics are still in Seattle.
on May 6, 2009 at 1:47 PM Report this
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I'll take a nice piece of mellow soft-ripened cheese or a fresh radish dipped in butter—or, hell, a bowl of red beans and rice cooked with plain-old salt pork—over a fatty, greasy hunk of bacon any day.

So, why would you attend an event like Baconopolis - just to hate it?
Explorer on May 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM Report this
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Bacon will always be fashionably delicious.
on May 6, 2009 at 8:22 PM Report this
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Erica, you are so right. Now can we start a modern temperance movement? (Really. Gluttony has run its course.)
m on May 7, 2009 at 9:10 AM Report this
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*snif* -- You heathen! Wikipedia's bacon cabal does not look kindly on such slander. Overall though, we're just sad, I think. Just as things were going our way, you procaim our demise...
on May 7, 2009 at 10:37 AM Report this
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bacon will never die....now we just have to wait for Bakon Vodka to be released and then the world will be complete.
bokbok on May 7, 2009 at 10:42 AM Report this
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Bacon and all it's goodness will never die. Now we just have to wait for the release and the shelves to be stocked with Bakon Vodka, http://bakonvodka.com/. Then the world will be complete.
bokbok on May 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM Report this
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Bacon needs no marketing campaign and is recession-proof. Your feeble attempt to marginalize bacon is futile.
on May 7, 2009 at 11:49 AM Report this
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Declaring a love for bacon is just a thing that boring people do to suss out other boring people. ('I agree- this would taste better with bacon! Bacon goes with everything!') The North Face jackets just aren't enough I guess.
Katie B on May 7, 2009 at 2:46 PM Report this
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I'm going to require that you cite your sources on this one.

No, really.

If you make a sweeping, blanket statement you must have some facts or sources to support your argument. Any journalist worth their (bacon) salt knows this.

So please be amending your article to include references and sources demonstrating the truthfulness and accuracy of your article. Show me the evidence. Otherwise it's just unsupported opinion. And we all know what that's worth.

Thanks!
on May 7, 2009 at 4:19 PM Report this
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If your declaration that bacon is yesterday's food makes it so, can't you use your powers for something good, like ending war or canceling American Idol? Both of those are way past their primes.

Seriously, I'd prefer to see some evidence of this decline than your say-so. This is the information age and you can easily check marketing sites, trend sites, and other measures of hype.
senatorgrant on May 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM Report this
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Wow, "food snobbery...disguised as egalitarianism"? "...clinging to relevance, grasping at any opportunity to cash in on its dwindling cachet as its 15 minutes come to an end"? You are taking a completely meaningless idea WAY too seriously.

It's fun getting unnecessarily excited and yelling about shit that doesn't make sense. That's it. Really.

Now go outside and breathe.
on May 7, 2009 at 9:10 PM Report this
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I love it when a columnist unilaterally declares the death of a movement. Jumping the gun a bit, aren't we? I know a lot of people who are waiting for July to try the bacon explosion.

(But yes, like the above posters I would like the hip crowd to find something else to fawn over.)
on May 7, 2009 at 9:49 PM Report this
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Sorry Erica, but the only way you'll get my bacon is to slide it from my cold, greasy, post-coronary rigor mortised hands...

And speaking as one raised on bacon in all its myriad forms, and whose 90 year-old grandmother still keeps a crock of congealed bacon grease on the stove-top, that will be a long, long time from now.
COMTE on May 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM Report this
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I was in to bacon before it was cool.
on May 7, 2009 at 11:05 PM Report this
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completely, tragically, as unhip as i am, i never realized that bacon was a 'movement'; i thought it was something tasty that i have loved since childhood. where the fuck have i been?
on May 8, 2009 at 12:54 AM Report this
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Erica, Bacon thinks that you are almost over.
on May 8, 2009 at 8:54 AM Report this
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You are the most negative person I've ever read. Is there anything you like? Nah, you'd be too afraid to actually like something. Because that would mean you have a heart and soul.
marshmallow on May 8, 2009 at 1:31 PM Report this
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hahahahahaha

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/voracious…
on May 8, 2009 at 2:15 PM Report this
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Wait a minute! Wasn't the Strangler promoting baconmania just a few short weeks ago? And now we're knocking it because it's so over? Here's a suggestion: don't publicize something that you are going to denounce later. I guess that cuts out about 100% of your content but that's also probaly why such print vehicles are headed for extinction.
James Early on May 8, 2009 at 3:12 PM Report this
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Giving up already? Maybe the arteries are clogged up from all that grease and not enough blood if flowing to the brain. You're missing the big picture: why stop with just pig bacon? What about cat bacon? Or dog bacon? I bet if you cram enough together, caged so they can't barely turn around, walk or exercise dogs and cats would be just delicious. Lets expand the menu! And the factory farms. How about we clear out the Stranger office? There are plenty of dogs already there ripe for the eating.
whatascam on May 8, 2009 at 3:49 PM Report this
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Ironically declaring a fad to be dead just helps insure its long survival.
on May 8, 2009 at 4:39 PM Report this
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Recipes throughout the ages use bacon to make them taste better. Bacon is nowhere near being a fad-thing, it's just a human thing. To say that bacon is over is like saying that pants are over. That dog won't hunt.
dystopia86 on May 8, 2009 at 5:46 PM Report this
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My friends' son named our band Naked Bacon. We thought it was cool so we used it. We didn't know we were part of a cultural phenomenon. So here is one poor musician who is hoping Baconmania is just getting started!
on May 9, 2009 at 6:54 AM Report this
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Amen. Now I can just get back to enjoying it in peace.
byrongostop on May 10, 2009 at 2:44 PM Report this
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Bacon Salt and Baconaisse are vegetarian, low sodium, and Baconaisse has less calories than mayo.There goes your B.S. health arguement on your first examples.
Like others have pointed out you have shown no proof in sales dropping or anything of the sort to show the "bacon fad" is winding down.

What kind of hack writer doesn't even understand research and presenting facts to proove your arguement.This is just an opinion piece presented as fact.

Oh, and for all you bacon fans, the guys at Bacon Salt now have Bacon Lube!Not my thing but I'm sure some of you will be down!
on May 10, 2009 at 7:37 PM Report this
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Bacon was around long before I was born, and bacon will still grace greasy spoon diners and kitchen tables everywhere after I'm just a withering grease spot.

Right on the money, Byrongostop! Amen---I, too, will now enjoy bacon in peace.

I'm not so sure about bacon lube, though, but for those of you turned on to it, more power to ya!
on May 11, 2009 at 3:29 AM Report this
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I can't wait for this bacon trend to be over. It's one thing to pep up the occasional dish with something unexpected yet familiar, but after a certain point, chefs get lazy. Having 1/3 of a menu involve bacon, even as a sauce base or garnish, is not being creative. Replace it with any other ingredient and it sounds even more stupid. Know what's delicious? Cream cheese. But no one in their right mind excluding Paula Dean would use it so often.
amatama on May 11, 2009 at 6:52 AM Report this
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I have my suspicions that if Lindy West had written about this same subject and made the same declaration that the bacon fad had reached its zenith, most commenters would be showering her with "oh, you're sooooo right".

ECB, some of your writing grates on me but on this you are completely correct. And you didn't say that nobody was going to eat bacon anymore, you just observe that a trend peaks when it reaches the polo shirt crowd and is mashed into every marketed product possible- and then people get over it, the products don't sell anymore and we go back to eating bacon with just our eggs and sandwiches.

Jesus people, WHO's the one that needs to lighten up?
medium on May 11, 2009 at 9:54 AM Report this
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Erica, Were you even there? I was there the whole time and I don't remember seeing you at all.
on May 11, 2009 at 3:10 PM Report this
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I am sorry someone that does not even sound like they like bacon gets a chance to go to a bacon function in the first place.
"but it isn't so uniquely delicious..." um...what tastes like Bacon?
What is deserving of an event...especially a food event? Celery? I guess there is the soda CEL-RAY, we could have a Celery-a-thon, celeryopolis...I mean learn to enjoy something...oh yeah you write for the stranger...you are too cool for bacon...or maybe it just to greasy for you.
on May 11, 2009 at 8:25 PM Report this
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Careful hater-nation...you might give yourselves a heart attack. ECB, you forgot to mention bacon flavored ice cream; You can find this special treat at Molly Moon's occasionally.
velvetcucumber on May 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM Report this
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Bacon Ice cream is wonderful...culinary communion used to make some...
on May 11, 2009 at 10:48 PM Report this
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"An avid bicyclist and a former vegan,..."
Um...ok...and you are writing about bacon? Not that bicyclists don't eat bacon.
on May 12, 2009 at 12:45 AM Report this
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Bippity boppity BACON! I didn't read the article, but it had to be said.
on May 12, 2009 at 3:43 AM Report this
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According to google (google.com/trends?q=bacon), bacon seems to be doing just fine..
on May 12, 2009 at 6:05 AM Report this
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mmmmm......bacon.
cutler on May 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM Report this
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@39 I love him.
Katie B on May 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM Report this
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WTF, how can bacon go out of style? It's a crunchy, delicious staple (I'm a vegetarian and even I know this.)

"It's ok y'all, you can stop eating bread now...it's 'out' this season."

Again, wtf?
on May 13, 2009 at 1:10 PM Report this
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you forgot bacon-flavoured rolling papers.
nimzoin on May 13, 2009 at 9:41 PM Report this
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erica how can you state that one fork full of carbonara is like all others. please go to a good Italian restaurant that makes their own spaghetti and try this one again, the dish is traditionally made with pancetta, not your typical bacon and when made well is a masterpiece. How can one article get so much sideways. bob prince
on May 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM Report this
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I absolutely agree- the bacon craze is getting to be a bit tired. There are other tasty foods out there- a lot of them in fact. Cant we let this one go now?
Well said, nice article ECB.
on May 17, 2009 at 7:09 PM Report this
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@32: Anatama:
I'm into cream cheese. I like to put it into my scrambled eggs with lots of other goodies.

Hooray for cream cheese!!!
on May 17, 2009 at 10:47 PM Report this
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Uhhh...no BaconCat, the one who started it all in yesteryear? You blithering idiot. Google "BaconCat" at once and edit your article. God gave the West Coast earthquakes, wildfires, and idiot columnists who try to spout off about things they don't even know the origins of.
on May 17, 2009 at 10:54 PM Report this
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At a farm party last weekend I discover something even better than bacon.

Tortilla chips with a dab of butter!

As a test I offered the dog two one with butter one without, she would only eat it with butter

So good, nummy
roonerjeff on May 27, 2009 at 9:39 AM Report this
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Your opinion that Baconmania is "over" is nothing more than that: an opinion.

As far as I can tell, Baconmania HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN.

You are wrong: dead pig wrong. Get on the Bacon Train before it leaves the station without you, or, alternately, mows you down.

Coming next: Bacon ice cream.
ReluctantPopStar on September 24, 2009 at 10:02 AM Report this
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I understand that as a trend-fad item the concept is over…however everyday people stil buy tons of our bacon items. From bandages, to mints, dental floss, soap, wallets and more…http://www.moodswingsonthenet.com/search…
Some of our customer comments have been about buying them for the older generation that love bacon but aren’t suppose to eat it anymore, the office vegan joke, etc…

Peace, Moodswings Inc
on October 1, 2009 at 9:31 AM Report this
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perhaps the bacon mania is a result of those too poor, who cannot afford a
delicious slice of San Danielle prosciutto..
their cravings will never be satisfied by cheap American bacon
Jezzabel on November 28, 2010 at 2:11 PM Report this
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This article remains retarded over a year and a half later and I still love bacon. Funny how the presumed "fad" of bacon never really had an impact either way on something so delicious. Fat and salt live on in harmony.
jfljoe on December 1, 2010 at 6:05 PM Report this
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this article is hilariously wrong. are you really too cynical to enjoy something as harmless as bacon?
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