Isn’t it apropos that the gateway meat has it’s own day? And that day is today. So to help you get your pork on we’ve compiled a list of the piggy-licious, the pork-tastic, and well, some things that just made us snort (and not in a good way)…

• Bacon Haikus (giggle!)
• Bacon Salt, the never ending quest to make everything taste like bacon
• Bacon Cupcakes from Buzz Bakery on Cupcakes Take The Cake
• Hardening of the arteries via Paula Deen: Lady’s Brunch Burger (snort!)
• The Bacon Show: One bacon recipe per day, every day, forever (bless you, Bacon Show, bless you)
• Homemade Bacon Vodka
• The Bacon Cocktail
• David Lebovitz’s Candied Bacon Ice Cream
• The Bacon Cookbook: More Than 150 Recipes from Around the World for Everyone’s Favorite Food
• Seduced By Bacon: Recipes and Lore about America’s Favorite Indulgence
• Forget that new car smell! Now there’s Bacon Air Freshener (snort!)
• But nothing beats a good old B.L.T

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I know, I know, the last couple of days I’ve featured some strange foods, and today is no exception. Today I found an interesting article in New York Magazine about a “bacon-infused-bourbon-and-maple-syrup cocktail.” All together now…”EEEEEW!!”

Now don’t get me wrong. I love bacon. Like top-ten-favorite-foods love. I love it wrapped around asparagus, I love BLTs, I love it with eggs and hash browns on a Sunday morning. In fact, because of bacon I could never be a vegetarian. The only time I went off bacon was in the 8th grade when I raised a pig. It didn’t end well, but that’s a whole other story (one that would require a bunch of tissue and a few shots of tequila). But when I stumbled upon the bacon cocktail article I thought, “Who, pray tell, would think to infuse bourbon with maple syrup and bacon?”

Here are three images that come to mind: large masculine men, NASCAR or some extreme sport, lots of chest pounding and a whole bunch of imagination.

Clearly this gives the “Gateway Meat” a whole new meaning!

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