Bacon is the new black.

Still catching up on my news reading for today. If you just read my last blog post, then before you begin to think all I read is crap, I want to point out that I read many news sources, including CNN, Fox, Reuters, Boing Boing, etc. etc.

So, I’m sitting here, glad to have posted my NaBloPoMo post for today, and resume catching up on the news online. CNBC is playing on the tv… Fast Money, to be exact. They just had a little blurb of a news item discussing…

CHICKEN FRIED BACON.

CHICKEN. FRIED. BACON.

Can you frickin’ chickin’ imagine?!?! Bacon that is breaded and deep fried, then served with a side of country gravy. I think the blood stopped coursing through my veins just at the very thought of it.

Get the scoop:
* Chicago Sun-Times
* Chicagoist review

As for me, I think getting the scoop is as far as I’d go with this.

And I LOVE bacon.

This stuff though? Frightens the hell out of me.

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my stalker

Facebook’s targeted ads spook me, seriously making me feel like I’m being followed. Well, technically, I guess I am being followed. Eighty percent of the time, they’re pretty right-on. (I particularly resent the plethora of ads for “40 year olds” that started coming my way one week after I turned 40 this year.)

One I received today:

It troubles me that an ad like this exists. There really is a market for everything, eh? It especially concerns me that I am considered the target audience.

And they are 100% correct.

I heart bacon, as you - and Facebook - know. So it comes as no surprise that I clicked on this ad. (I typically do NOT click on them.) Upon doing so, I was taken to this diddit.com page.

I never heard of diddit.com before, but the fact that someone there dreamt up a Bacon & Wine Tasting (from the list The Bacon Challenge, nonetheless)? I am most certainly compelled to explore further .

I SO don’t want to encourage my stalker. But throwing bacon my way? Like offering candy to a little kid.

UPDATE: a quick poking around at The Bacon Challenge list took me to this: Bacon Cheese Sticks.

Oh. My. Lard.

I wonder what red wine Ed H. would suggest cuz one will definitely need those flavonoid and resveratrol benefits after eating these delights.

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