Bacon Day is a day of Bacon

September 3, 2009 9:30 AM

International Bacon Day!
"Bacon Day is held on the Saturday before Labor Day US ... This year that is the 5th of September. Last year Bacon Day was celebrated in the US, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Switzerland, and the UK ... Bacon Day is a day of Bacon ... think Iron Chef but all day and the secret ingredient is Bacon."
via Bacon Today [previously], your go-to guide for all things bacon and bacon-related , up to but not including the artery-unclogging services you will need afterward.)

...yes, yes, but why place it so far away from International Pancake Day? ☹
[previously]

posted by not_on_display (41 comments total)

...and no, jessamyn, this is not a preview of your birthday present!
posted by not_on_display at 9:31 AM on September 3, 2009

yes! and i was planning to make bacon tonight!
posted by Mach5 at 9:40 AM on September 3, 2009

Amateurs. Every day is bacon day.
posted by bondcliff at 9:42 AM on September 3, 2009 [5 favorites]

Heh. And I just picked up a massive amount of peameal bacon this week. I think I know what's for breakfast Saturday ...
posted by maudlin at 9:42 AM on September 3, 2009

this is not a preview of your birthday present!

If you got me a bacon bra, it's over.
posted by jessamyn at 9:43 AM on September 3, 2009 [2 favorites]

Bacon has jumped the shark.

Mmm... shark bacon.
posted by Eideteker at 9:45 AM on September 3, 2009 [3 favorites]

Perhaps tomorrow will be Hypercolor shirt day? And then can we have soda fountain day? And digital watch day, and 640KB limit day....
posted by gurple at 9:47 AM on September 3, 2009

I am so wearing my Hypercolor shirt tomorrow.
posted by Uncle Ira at 9:49 AM on September 3, 2009

^{^}jessamyn: "this is not a preview of your birthday present!
If you got me a bacon bra, it's over."

But it fits me so well!
</getaroom>
posted by not_on_display at 9:51 AM on September 3, 2009

Oh man, I wish I still had my Hypercolor shirt. It was rad.
posted by uncleozzy at 9:54 AM on September 3, 2009

By strange coincidence, I had a GKB Manhattan just last night (bacon infused Knob Creek, maple syrup, orange bitters, brandied cherry as garnish). I see there is now an occasion to have another.
posted by ardgedee at 9:54 AM on September 3, 2009 [2 favorites]

Bacon is just more proof that the internet can run *anything* into the ground.
posted by WinnipegDragon at 9:55 AM on September 3, 2009 [5 favorites]

On this one day of the year, do dogs know it's not bacon?
posted by spicynuts at 10:09 AM on September 3, 2009

Oh good. My homemade bacon, tomato and basil infused vodka should be ready to strain and be made into delicious bloody marys by then. Cheers.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 10:09 AM on September 3, 2009

Every pork product deserves its own day: Sausage Link Day. Pork Shoulder Day. Sausage Pattie Day. Little Smokies Day. Surrey Sausage Day. Pork Tenderloin Day. Pork Chop Day. Italian Sausage Day. Virginia Ham Day. Hot Dog Day. Pulled Pork Day...
posted by njbradburn at 10:10 AM on September 3, 2009

My husband sent me this when I linked him to the news of Bacon Day:

Remember, remember
The Fifth of September
The Bacon Cheeseburger and Fries
I know we'll be makin'
The Day just for Bacon
And eatin' smoked pig til we dies.
posted by immlass at 10:21 AM on September 3, 2009 [11 favorites]

this is not a preview of your birthday present!

If you got me a bacon bra, it's over.
posted by jessamyn at 9:43 AM on September 3 [+] [!]

They make those? I guess arteries are not the only things hardening....
posted by Mastercheddaar at 10:22 AM on September 3, 2009

Oh good. My homemade bacon, tomato and basil infused vodka should be ready to strain and be made into delicious bloody marys by then. Cheers.

When you live in Buffalo, you make your own fun.
posted by The Whelk at 10:30 AM on September 3, 2009

Truly, bacon is too delicious and beautiful a thing to have ever been reduced to something so base as an internet fad.
posted by EatTheWeak at 10:32 AM on September 3, 2009

We celebrated Bacon Day Eve...BLTs for dinner last night. mmmmmmmmm
posted by Thorzdad at 10:51 AM on September 3, 2009

I'm slowly coming out of an extended stomach-bug illness which has made me unable to eat practically anything in the last 5 days. I am slowly reintroducing my body to the idea of solid food now.

5th of September, eh? I can do this. (Even though Spanish bacon tends to not be as awesome as one might think.)
posted by slimepuppy at 11:31 AM on September 3, 2009

"Mmm... shark bacon."

Causes heart disease AND cures cancer!
posted by Eideteker at 11:56 AM on September 3, 2009

Dear Internet,

Please shut up about bacon already.

ps- Also shut up about zombies.
posted by mrnutty at 12:29 PM on September 3, 2009 [2 favorites]

Zombie Bacon.
posted by The Whelk at 12:34 PM on September 3, 2009 [2 favorites]

Bacation!
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 12:37 PM on September 3, 2009

Fella in the booth next to me at the last comics convention I was at said he had embarked upon and eventually abandoned a campaign to make astronauts the next internet fad. ninjas, pirates, zombies, astronauts. I thought it was a noble endeavor and purchased one of the products he'd created in pursuit of that aim, sad that I would probably never see realultimateastronaut.com unless he or I sat down and put such a site together.

Ninjas, pirates & zombies are all played out. Bacon's on the decline. LOLcats have been over ever since our aunts started forwarding icanhascheezburger images to us. What's on the rise right now? Any savvy memespotters have any guesses as to which fads we'll be sick of the day after tomorrow?
posted by EatTheWeak at 12:45 PM on September 3, 2009

mrnutty, comments like that are the equivalent of walking across a room to interrupt a conversation just to tell the people that what they are discussing is not interesting to you.

Just stay on the other side of the room and let us keep talking about stuff that interests us and realise that not everything is about you or made for your entertainment. Except bacon. Which IS made for you entertainment.

ps- So are zombies
posted by slimepuppy at 12:47 PM on September 3, 2009 [1 favorite]

When you live in Buffalo, you make your own fun.

*sigh*
posted by kuujjuarapik at 2:36 PM on September 3, 2009

Any savvy memespotters have any guesses as to which fads we'll be sick of the day after tomorrow?

Is it fixed gear bikes? Please?
posted by fixedgear at 2:41 PM on September 3, 2009 [1 favorite]

Everyone knows this holiday was just created by lobbyists from the bacon-industrial complex.
posted by SouthCNorthNY at 2:41 PM on September 3, 2009

http://gizmodo.com/5347767/8-foods-that-should-never-be-canned/gallery/ - #4

this is not a preview of your birthday present!

If you got me a bacon bra, it's over.
posted by jessamyn at 9:43 AM on September 3 [+] [!]

They make those? I guess arteries are not the only things hardening....
posted by Mastercheddaar at 7:22 AM on September 3 [+] [!]

http://gizmodo.com/5345912/bacon-bra-needs-no-further-explanation
posted by Nauip at 4:21 PM on September 3, 2009

Funny or Die link: Bacon is good for me. (take it away and I'm leaving)
posted by Frank Grimes at 4:22 PM on September 3, 2009 [1 favorite]

Bacon-geared bikes?
posted by Ron Thanagar at 6:02 PM on September 3, 2009 [1 favorite]

Oh, and classic bacon-related 1970s T-shirt design found in the back pages of magazines and comic books
posted by Ron Thanagar at 6:05 PM on September 3, 2009

update: i made the bacon, and some scrambled eggs. it was delicious.
posted by Mach5 at 6:25 PM on September 3, 2009

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posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 7:09 PM on September 3, 2009 [1 favorite]

Oh, you crazy kids! You thought you had it all wrapped up, with regards to ironic bacon-fetish humor. Wellsir, The State already beat you to it (sorry for the cruddy YT sync) all the way back ca. 1995.

Now kindly get your bacon off of my lawn.
posted by Strange Interlude at 10:40 PM on September 3, 2009

Bacon has become the most boring internet subject of all time.
posted by caddis at 12:02 AM on September 4, 2009

...I think boredom with bacon has just surpassed bacon itself as the most boring internet subject of all time. I'll always like bacon better.

^{^}Frank Grimes: "Funny or Die link: Bacon is good for me. (take it away and I'm leaving)"

Joy? I have been nice t' yah, but now, I'm comin' to th' edge.
posted by not_on_display at 8:40 AM on September 4, 2009

I guess I'm late to the party, but I had to point out:
the Meatini would be a perfect way to celebrate international bacon day.
posted by Humanzee at 10:18 AM on September 4, 2009 [1 favorite]

Arctic researcher flees after wolves gorge on bacon
posted by homunculus at 9:09 AM on September 8, 2009