My Life With Bacon

MY LIFE WITH BACON CONTINUES this week with an upcoming celebration of a bacon-eating 116-year-old, who is the documented oldest person on earth. What better way to post my 100th blog post than with a centernarian! THE OLDEST PERSON ON EARTH , pictured above, is Susannah Mushatt Jones, of New York, who is turning 116 on July 7th. Wow. And her favorite food is bacon, eggs and grits! Except for the grits, that's pure health food. Summary article here. NEW TREND: PULLED PORK IS THE NEW BACON! At least that's being touted by one pundit. Pulled pork has been selling at accelerated rates. Good thing I have my Ugly Drum Smoker in which to make it! "What’s driving pulled pork’s ascent is as much about economics as taste. Ground beef prices have been steadily rising, up 189% since 2000, according to Cattle Network. This week, the most popular kind of ground beef, 73% lean, sold for an average wholesale price of $1.89/pound, according to the USDA. Fresh, vacuum-packed tr...

MY LIFE WITH BACON CONTINUES THIS WEEK with HAPPY FATHER'S DAY BACON, AND  with a new scent alarm clock, and a wayward youth stealing bacon and a TV, then passing out. Plus, a huge burger on a smoker. Getting ready to cook these jalepenos for Father's day! Oscar. " Try to wrap your brain around the Beer Keg Bacon Burger Pizza "!  This is the finished product: Looks are deceiving in a picture like this. It's actually 30 pounds of ground beef. They used a keg to make the space for the 'toppings': And then they added the toppings and the bacon 'crust'... pretty amazing. Full story and recipe here. BACON IN THE NEWS  continues now with a SmellAlarmClock (my terminology).  We previously reviewed and posted about the Oscar Mayer "Wake Up And Smell The Bacon" promotion. They created a device for your iPhone that, coupled with a device they sent to lucky contestants, would emit the scent of cooked bacon and an actor's v...

MY LIFE WITH BACON CONTINUES THIS WEEK with a terrible accident involving bacon, the sentencing of a dastardly bacon criminal, and a test of three ways of cooking bacon. BACON IN THE NEWS  begins this week with Cameo Adawn Crispi appearing in court earlier this month to a nasty crime. (Very creative photo above from this website .)  She apparently attempted to kill her boyfriend by setting fire to a bunch of bacon on a cookee sheet on top of the stove. Hopefully this is the final chapter in her sad story. The report says she actually had a blood alcohol level of .34 - wow, that's dangerously close to alcohol poisioning. "A woman has been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay a fine for setting fire to her ex-boyfriend's home in March 2014 with a pound of burning bacon and hot coals from a wood stove.... The fire was extinguished and Crispi was arrested after a brief struggle with officers. Her blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.346, court records show,...

MY LIFE WITH BACON CONTINUES THIS WEEK WITH GOOD STUFF BACON IN THE NEWS  begins this week with a really cool new lottery ticket from Hoosier country. The great state of Indiana launched it this week. In the same vein as the New Hampshire scratch-n-sniff, these lottery tickets are bacon-scented!  But the good news is that the grand prize winner gets twenty years of bacon!  Check out the IndyStar website , quoted below: " The Hoosier Lottery has debuted a new bacon-scented lottery game that offers players    the possibility of winning a 20-year supply of the savory meat. The new scratch-off lottery game, called Bringin’ Home the Bacon, is infused with the aroma of bacon. It debuted Tuesday at 4,400 Hoosier Lottery retailers. Players who buy the tickets costing $2 each can win cash prizes of up to $10,000, while five players will win a 20-year supply of bacon paid in installments and valued at $5,000, or $250 annually. The new lottery game is a partn...