I eat meat and I'm going to say it: Bacon is not food. All the hype around bacon back on the late 2000s internet was just a bunch of people circle-jerking and dog-whistling to each other about "look, we're so not-Muslim and not-Jewish which is great because we get to eat a food that isn't halal or kosher and it sucks for those people who are so oppressed by their religion that they don't get to eat the best food ever invented"

I finally tried bacon -- high quality gourmet bacon made by a friend who was a professional chef -- and that shit was so disgusting I couldn't even swallow a bite. It tastes bad, worse than pork normally tastes (which is pretty bad to begin with). It's nauseatingly greasy. The texture, if you're foolhardy enough to bite into it after licking it and getting that flavor, is revolting.

The bacon love is a complete psy-op. I refuse to believe anyone actually enjoys it. I find it more plausible to believe it's a vast conspiracy or a cultural meme that involves a bunch of people gaslighting themselves into thinking they like something disgusting. I'm usually all for cultural relativism and not yucking people's yums but I am going to take the most reactionary and intolerant stance here: Bacon is utterly disgusting. Veneration of bacon is the mark of a sick culture that desperately needs to be uplifted, and what I see from the "I love bacon it's the best thing ever you have to try it bro I swear bacon is love bacon is life" crowd directly contributes to my stance.

This post is only 10% hyperbolic backlash against an absurd meme.

Oh look, I google "bacon is a psyop" and here's what I get:

https://www.cracked.com/article_29348_the-bacon-craze-was-created-by-corporate-conspiracy.html

https://everything-pr.com/food-pr-bacon/

https://www.thetakeout.com/america-has-too-much-pork-sell-bacon-new-prepared-foods-1851248643/

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

I think bacon tastes good but it's just salty meat fat. I'm a disgusting garbage disposal of a human though i'll basically eat anything and enjoy it.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Bacon is the least bad that pork gets outside of being turned into a properly seasoned sausage, but it's something that should be contained within a sandwich with other more neutral flavors that themselves get seasoned by the salt and fat from the bacon.

Also all the bullshit hype about it was literally just a marketing psyop trying to drive consumption of an otherwise pretty niche cut of meat by turning it into some meme identity. Although it also probably found fertile ground because bacon, being already seasoned, is probably the most rich and flavorful dish a lot of suburbanites ate growing up since that bar is literally in hell - if their typical breakfast was like some shitty whitebread with butter and an unseasoned egg or a bowl of sugar kibble, then the salty and savory piece of probably half burnt meat on the plate was quite possibly the only flavor they were exposed to.

[–] larrikin99@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I remember reading an anthropology report about rural dalit women. They live very hard, discriminated lives, but they still took joy in mocking the higher caste supervisors and being able to eat delicious pork.