Is There Anything Bacon Can't Do?

Perhaps. But it helps your sex-life. At least, so says Cristina Kirchner. And hell - it's not like I needed another reason to eat bacon, but I'll always accept new justifications.

Only In Texas...

...could they decide that regular bacon was too healthy, and that they had to come up with chicken-fried bacon. None of these 10 items seem healthy, but chicken-fried bacon is....wow. And I'm pleased but surprised to note that Ohio was not on the list (though Anthony's old stomping grounds of Indiana does have the "pizza cone" at its state fair).

BaconSalt

How absolutely wonderful.

Mmmmmmmm..............Bacon................

In the world of "useless scientific research", I must say, this is one of the nobler research studies.

Absurd Texts in American History (VII, b)

I cannot get enough of Alice L. McLean's, Cooking in America, 1840-1945.

This bit is a homeopahtic recipe from Annabella P. Hill's, Mrs. Hill's New Cook Book, from 1867. This is the treatment for scarlet fever:

"As soon as the nature of the disease is ascertained, rub the patient night and morning with fat bacon, rubbing every part of the body but the head slowly and carefully."

I can see the headlines now--"Man Saved From Scarlet Fever, Killed by Pack of Wild Dogs"