NORTHERN PLANNER

(Picture courtesy of Seb)

Having seen Marcus’s post for sausage V bacon,  it’s easy to be complacent about the meat project quarter final (not least because of the amazing pork and mushroom ones I had from my local butcher this week) BUT…

The last bacon round was close, we must make sure no one confuses American bacon with the good stuff. Complacency is the enemy, let’s stay angry.

And there’s plenty to be angry about. I love proper bacon –  British/canadian/back bacon. US bacon, however, is what we call in the UK ‘streaky bacon’, the cheap stuff, only fit for cooking.This inferior meat masquerading as the tasty cured meat for all occasions is an insult that must not be borne.

America is great – they’ve given us Seinfeld, Frasier, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the blues, Mean Streets, Angelina Jolie…

…but like all great things, there is a dark side (and not just Bush)  – that awful habit of ruining traditions that should stay as they are.

I can just about forgive the mangling of coffee, The Office, Italian food, proper English and even that steadfast refusal to pronounce foreign languages properly. But trying to pass off inferior bacon as the proper, wonderful stuff,  we all know and love is too much.

Take a look at this Big Mac, the epitome of taking the great (German) hamburger, and removing all the taste, character from a truly great tradition. That’s what US bacon symbolises.

Mobilize now. A vote for sausage is a vote for the America that brought us Mean Streets.  A vote for US bacon is a vote for pronouncing  Alsace as ‘al sayce’. Let’s keep America great!