Bacon Fever Finally Dying

[BvBPL]

You've heard of bacon, right? It's pretty big these days. How long can bacon fever grip our world before leading minds decide that smoked pork bellies probably don't actually deserve that much attention?

Well, the East Village of NYC has long been considered a vanguard of culture and they appear to have decided that our current 24/7 bacon cycle isn't all it's cracked up to be. Various factions of the East Village have banned together and decided that enough is enough and that bacon is overdone. They are trying to get the East Village IHOP to stop emitting bacon smells. Apparently the natural smell of New York streets is SO much superior. I don't know about you, but I imagine it would be easier to get Nancy Regan to light up a spliff and drop an f-bomb than it would be to get an IHOP to stop smelling like crappy IHOP food.

At least it isn't a Waffle House.

In any case, my only hope is that once the Villagers defeat the Evil Bacon Menace of 14th Street that they will turn their eyes to ridding popular culture of zombies.

 

[Agent327]

It´s an inane subject and yet here you are trying to start a thread on it.

Duran Duran’s epic single “Hungry Like the Wolf.”

Never heard of it.

O, wait... bacon fever? Never heard of it.

BTW, Duran Duran didn´t start New Wave:

Duran Duran are an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1978.

The term "New Wave" itself has been a source of much confusion and controversy. It first circulated as a rock music genre in the early 1970s, used by critics like Nick Kent and Dave Marsh to classify such New York-based groups as the Velvet Underground and New York Dolls.[9] It gained a much wider currency beginning in 1976 when it appeared in UK punk fanzines such as Sniffin' Glue, and also in newsstand music weeklies such as "Melody Maker" and "New Musical Express" magazine.[23] In a November 1976 article in Melody Maker, Caroline Coon used Malcolm McLaren's term "New Wave" to designate music by bands not exactly punk, but related to, and part of the same musical scene;[24] the term was also used in that sense by music journalist Charles Shaar Murray in his comments about The Boomtown Rats.[25] For a period of time in 1976 and 1977 the two terms were interchangeable.[9][26] By the end of 1977, "New Wave" had replaced "Punk" as the definition for new underground music in the UK.[23]

 

[Traitorfish]

Some people don't like the smell of bacon. They shouldn't have the smell of bacon imposed upon them if it is at all possible. I don't see why this is a problem.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

If I can smell bacon, but I'm not eating bacon, I get angry.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Some people don't like the smell of bacon. They shouldn't have the smell of bacon imposed upon them if it is at all possible. I don't see why this is a problem.

I was told bacon was one of the universally loved smells, and that even vegetarians like the smell of bacon.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

I was told bacon was one of the universally loved smells, and that even vegetarians like the smell of bacon.

The pork lobby is very powerful. They're the Jewish lobby's only real competition.

Besides, you heard wrong. Vegetarians love baking. Rookie mistake, you'll get em next time, tiger

 

[azzaman333]

If I can smell bacon, but I'm not eating bacon, I get angry.

Why not just cook some bacon?

 

[Mr. Dictator]

why not just cook some bacon?

i am a sovereign citizen, thank you and goodnight.

Taberna needs all caps again, I promise I'll steer.

 

[Traitorfish]

I was told bacon was one of the universally loved smells, and that even vegetarians like the smell of bacon.

Twenty-four hours a day? And at the level of quality this place is likely to be using?

 

[downtown]

Do not besmirch the good name of IHOP or Bacon sirs. Otherwise, pistols at dawn.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Twenty-four hours a day? And at the level of quality this place is likely to be using?

IHOP is pretty good, actually. Besides, by the standards of smells emitted by storefronts in Manhattan, questionable bacon is still one of the better ones.

 

[Narz]

I admit I do like the smell of bacon (and meat cooking in general) even though I'd never eat it (bacon, I do occasionally eat other meat if someone else has cooked & served it to me & it's from a humane source) & think it's overrated & I find the juvenile machismo associated with meat (and especially red meat for some reason) annoying.

And I agree, bacon smells better than NYC but so does pretty much everything else that's not rotting.

 

[kochman]

Seriously, when walking in NYC, I can think of about 100 other smells that are way, way more offensive... why not target those first? Then if they are still offended, work their way to bacon.

 

[Turner]

Some people don't like the smell of bacon.

I understand each individual word, but together that doesn't make sense.

 

[Traitorfish]

Seriously, when walking in NYC, I can think of about 100 other smells that are way, way more offensive... why not target those first? Then if they are still offended, work their way to bacon.

I don't see why a list of priorities has to be based on the seriousness of the problem, rather than the feasibility of the solution. If that were the case, we'd have never developed cough medicine because we'd still be working on curing every single form of cancer.

 

[Turner]

Rather, there would be no cancer research because we're too busy trying to cure the common cold.

 

[warpus]

This is an outrage

I will be filing an official complaint

 

[Agent327]

Dammit! Ah want ma bacon!!! Respect ma authoritah!!!

 

[BvBPL]

I don't understand how the EPA can come down hard on chocolate bridges in Chicago, but they can't seem to regulate bacon in the Village. Obviously, those government fat cats are in the pocket of the powerful bacon lobby.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I don't see why a list of priorities has to be based on the seriousness of the problem, rather than the feasibility of the solution. If that were the case, we'd have never developed cough medicine because we'd still be working on curing every single form of cancer.

It's probably easier to shut down open air fish markets attracting flies then it is IHOP.