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There are many addictive foods, like [[Everything's Better with Chocolate|chocolate]] and [[Deep-Fried Whatever|deep-fried foods]], but when it comes to meat, the pig seems to reign supreme, especially when it comes to those special strips of heaven: bacon.
Bacon isn't healthy, unless you count the [[Poor Man's Substitute|cheap substitutes]] like soy bacon, turkey bacon or -- (shudder) -- [[
While ham and pork chops also qualify under the trope, only bacon tips the three chief sensors of gustatory pleasure: fattiness, saltiness and sweetness. So bow ye down before bacon, the perfect meat. ([[Averted Trope|Unless you're]] [[Islam|Muslim]], kosher-keeping [[Judaism|Jewish]], Seventh-day Adventist or - God help you - [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|vegetarian]].)
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== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, Sam Vimes' [[Trademark Favorite Food]] is a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. Preferably with as little lettuce and tomato as possible.
** There's also a brief mention in ''[[Unseen Academicals]]'' of a perfect bacon sandwich being found in the Cabinet of Curiosity.
== Live-Action TV ==
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** "We are on a quest to make everything taste like bacon." Yeah, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131023042508/http://store.baconsalt.com/baconlube_p_60.html apparently so].
* [http://www.zazzle.com/i_would_eat_a_baby_tshirt-235273338879923926 I would eat a baby if it came with bacon.], available in various sizes.
* Restaurant franchise Denny's recently{{when}} began [http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/03/baconalia-dennys-celebration-bacon-menu-review.html Baconalia], a ten-week event in which they find increasingly creative ways to incorporate bacon into dishes.
* If you can't or won't eat bacon, try eating chipotle peppers mixed with sour cream. The smoking process used to make jalapeno peppers into chipotle peppers makes them taste a bit like smoky, spicy bacon.
* The website Neatorama.com has a whole [http://www.neatoshop.com/catg/Bacon-Store section] of their store devoted to bacon-related products.
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* The [[wikipedia:Kilroy Was Here|Kilroy was here]] pre-Internet Meme had a [[Memetic Mutation]] of saying "Wot, no bacon?" (reflecting the rationing in World War II), instead of "Kilroy was here".
* As of the late 2010s, the [[w:Stop & Shop|Stop & Shop]] supermarket chain has begun marketing a seasonal assortment of bacon-flavored or -augmented foods including such unlikely products as bacon ''cookies''.
* In Ottawa, one can always buy [https://suzyq.ca/menu Maple Bacon doughnuts].
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Remember, [https://nationaltoday.com/international-bacon-day/ the first Saturday in September is International Bacon Day]!
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