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Bacon isn't healthy, unless you count the [[The Poor Mans Substitute|cheap substitutes]] like soy bacon, turkey bacon or -- (shudder) -- [[Canada, Eh?|Canadian bacon]]. The odor of cooking bacon can drive some people to strange behavior [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!|with its amazingly addictive qualities]].
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]] [[
NOTE: Turkey bacon, while not made from its succulent cousin, is still delicious and a nice alternative for the groups above...except those damn [[Butt Monkey|hippie celery chompers]]. The same holds true for certain types of beef bacon, particularly when made from plate steak,<ref>The equivalent cut of beef to the pork belly used for pork bacon</ref> which is even more like the porcine equivalent (having lots of streaky fat that melts and fries the meat, plus anything else you care to put in the pan afterward), although it's rather harder to find (only a few halal meatpackers make the stuff).
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