September 13, 2015: Worldwide Bacon Consumption Habits, and Bacon on Money Island

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with COSTCO bacon cooked up for a football team, some interesting bacon news, and bacon consumed on Money Island with poker buddies from NJ.

BACON IN THE NEWS

FOOTBALL TEAM CONSUMES MASS QUANTITIES OF BACON at the cook-out at Northcroft Park, following practice on Thursday, by the Lake Foreset High School Football Dad's Club. The varsity team, at that point 2-0 and playing under the Friday Night Lights against rival Warren, joined the sophomore team at the outdoor banquet. About 100 high school boys consumed about 300 pieces of meat, not including the COSTCO bacon. The bacon disappeared about 40 boys in... we're gonna have to get more bacon next year!

Friday night was also "NAVY NIGHT", as the Great Lakes Naval Station is only about 4 miles north of the high school. The navy base is the ONLY basic training facility in the Navy, so every sailor passes through here. That's why the kids are all sporting NAVY t-shirts... of course, for the game, I wore my ARMY stuff!

Go Scouts! Go Navy! Go ARMY, BEAT NAVY!


CRAZY WAYS PEOPLE EAT BACON AROUND THE WORLD has been reported in several ways by several news organizations this week. Seems like one group publishes a story, and like vultures, all the other newsies jump in and paraphrase the story or write it from a slightly different angle. Like me!

Anyway, here's a good link with some great pictures, provided by my good friend John Simmons. Many countries have little sections of write-up. I particularly like the Germany section, if only because of the picture.

ANOTHER DARN GOOD REASON TO AVOID TURKEY BACON is the recall of two million pounds of the junk. Apparently Kraft feared that the packages might spoil before their expiration date, and recalled the packages of Oscar Mayer before their time. Article here.

INTERNATIONAL BACON DAY WAS SATURDAY! I hope you got your bacon. Great write-up about the ways it's being celebrated, and a great picture.

Cocktail for bacon lovers: candied bacon martini.

 (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

I celebrated International Bacon Day by having some bacon before I left for the airport, headed to Hartford, to watch Army play UCONN in football. After playing some card games with the boys, wherein I took all their money, we also had bacon at the Parthenon diner in Branford on Sunday morning before heading out.

SOME GREAT BACON RECIPES HERE: http://www.bustle.com/articles/106813-30-bacon-recipes-that-prove-its-the-best-food-on-earth