I’ve always said that when our moms and dads told us we were unique and special, they were lying. The internet proves this – any strange proclivity you thought gave you that extra something, turns out there’s a Facebook group of millions or perhaps a Flickr! photo pool with 8,000 members, all drooling over the same thing or idea.
Obsessions, I got ’em. For instance, I am freaky for bacon. Thanks to Flickr!, I have been able to subscribe to something they call a bacon photo group. Now, beautiful images of bacon about to be eaten in many lands stream across my desktop almost constantly.
It’s not a bother, really. To me, Bacon is God. Also, so many advancements have been made in the bacon arena over the past few years, anybody who says America has lost its way is just lying.
I mean, all-natural, nitrite-free, super-thick-cut, Applewood smoked bacon the size of a small New York Strip being sold as supermarket-brand at Whole Foods for $6 for like, 2 lbs? I mean, come on. This is a country that’s going places. You bake that stuff instead of frying and you have experienced new peaks of pleasure, bacon-wise, I promise you, friend.
For further proof of American exceptionalism, I invite you to watch this YouTube video of a Texas cooking show that focuses on a place called Sodolak’s Original Country Inn, in the tiny town of Snook, TX. Snook is near Austin. In Snook, they deep fry the bacon and serve it with country gravy on the side.
Then again, you already saw the picture, and your heart already had that little twinge that it gets when worried that you are about to do something stupid. Who needs an election — with restaurants like these, we’re all winners, I expect.
(photo thanks to Dave77459)