Now that I work at the Think Tank, I read a lot of
stuff written by Scientists and Experts, like this one study that was just
published in the journal Nature
Neuroscience, called “Dopamine D2 receptors in addiction-like reward
dysfunction and compulsive eating in obese rats,” by Paul M. Johnson & Paul J. Kenny of The Scripps Research Institute.
So what the Doctors found
was that rats that ate delicious, yummy BACON had the same addiction-like
chemical responses in their brains as rats that do a lot of smack. And because
it’s an animal study, the rats were subjected to excruciating pain, and they
still ate BACON, just like they kept doing heroin when they were subjected to
excruciating pain, because they were ADDICTED. To heroin. And now also to
BACON. And if rats can be addicted to BACON, why not humans, who also—some of
them—do heroin, right?
Some day the hog farmers of Iowa are gonna wise up, and
when the BACON cartels control the bacon, then what are you gonna do? Eat
so-called “turkey bacon”? I don’t think so.
Scripps needs to stick to running spelling bees and leave my pork products alone.
http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/archives/2009/02/the_bacon_taked.html
Posted by: Rolf | April 01, 2010 at 12:42 AM
I wonder if it is all pork products or something about bacon in particular. Maybe it has to do with being a fried breakfast food and not with being porcine.
Posted by: bartleby | April 01, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Bacon was the only thing I missed when I became a vegetarian.
Posted by: Tony Coulter | April 01, 2010 at 01:34 PM
I kid you not - today was the first lunch that I plan to enjoy for a long long time. My consumption of meat has concerned me for some time now. No addiction issues too overt - I've sorta known about this addiction thingy for a while. If it's not meat, it is *terrific* beer. But I digress. Back to the lunch. Now, when I am craving a big old bacon cheeseburger, I just substitute a black bean patty as the burger with just 2 slices of bacon. A helluva lot less bad for you while still getting a nice balanced chomp of something meaty. Try it.
The Pied Piper eatery in Nashville, TN has a black bean and beet burger than is as stout as an angus burger. And, no, I will not cut back on my beer options in this amazing town.
Posted by: tony bacon | April 01, 2010 at 03:41 PM
Sometimes I like a bacon sandwich, on toasted rye, light brush of mayo---forget the lettuce, forget the tomato. But what I really, really like is that ass in the "I ♥ Bacon" panties.
Posted by: WmMBerger | April 01, 2010 at 04:46 PM
True that; yet actual bacon addicts look a whole lot more like this.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0401102big1.html
Posted by: K. | April 02, 2010 at 07:29 PM
the old 600 lb. fireman returning damaged ice cream scam
Posted by: bartelby | April 03, 2010 at 04:55 PM
Why not just go to bacon-flavored heroin? Or heroin-rubbed bacon?
Posted by: Janey Yonkers | April 03, 2010 at 07:23 PM
Heroin! Peppermint-flavored heroin!
Posted by: Listener Cary Grant | April 06, 2010 at 04:34 PM
I just had a salad (served at a steakhouse in Moab, UT), that was topped with duck bacon! Amazing stuff, combining the smokiness of bacon with the richness of duck. Well worth a try for anyone dabbling in all things bacon.
Posted by: JohnnyNJ-Utah | April 20, 2010 at 11:56 PM