Bacon

I just can’t seem to get away from bacon!  Bacon is everywhere and it’s been the 'cool' and 'it' ingredient for a few years now.  I don’t know if bacon-with-everything is just a food trend or if it is here to stay for the long term but I do know that it is doing no favors for my waistline.  Whatever happened to those days when bacon would just be a breakfast side with eggs or pancakes? Or just be inside 2 slices of toasted bread with tomatoes and lettuce?  Now bacon has been used in such creative ways that it can be incorporated into almost anything.

Let me give you an example of how much bacon has consumed my life.

I was craving a donut one day and noticed they had maple bacon donuts on the menu, so how could I say resist…

I ordered a Caesar drink expecting it to come with just a traditional stalk of celery but they added bacon to it!

I was looking at jam and marmalade at the grocery store and look what happened to be calling my name...

I went to a fundraiser one afternoon, and they were serving bacon popsicles…

The same fundraiser also served good old fashioned bacon with maple syrup as finger food...

Then I saw this...

There is bacon salt, bacon vodka, bacon mayonnaise, bacon chocolate, bacon olive oil, bacon jam, bacon ice cream and I could go on and on. They even have food events and food menus revolved around bacon where they really pay tribute to the term ‘Everything tastes better with bacon!’

I honestly think bacon-with-everything is here to stay for good so if that's the case, that's fine with me because I have already made it part of my regular diet.  Maybe the next thing will be maple bacon syrup for my pancakes...