For The Love of Bacon Poetry Contest, Bacon Giveaway, and More!
Posted in All Other Wellness on January 18, 2012
Bottom line, bacon is awesome! If you are a meat/pork eater chances are you love bacon.
Not only do most people love bacon. Bacon gets people excited. Phrases like “anything tastes good with bacon” and “bacon makes it better” are thrown around all the time.
Primal Toad, in his post 5 Reasons Why Loving Bacon is Super Healthy, said it best:
Bacon is not nutrient rich and is not loaded with antioxidants. But when a bacon lover enjoys bacon alone or with other foods then they are put in an incredibly happy place.
When you eat bacon you come alive. You feel great and don’t think about all the stresses of the world. If you love bacon and eat it often then you should feel zero guilt when you consume it.
Be sure to check out this public service announcement I created about the medicinal qualities of Bacon. I’d like to thank the creators of this Cymbalta commercial for the inspiration.
If you are reading this article in email or RSS use this link to view Medicinal Grade Bacon.
The Bacon Poetry Contest
How much do you love bacon? I want to hear about it in prose! In fact, I’m going to give away a 1.5 lbs pack of White Sugar-Free Hickory Smoked Pork Bacon from US Wellness Meats to the person who leaves the best original bacon poem in the comments section.
The winner will be chosen based on no specific criteria except whatever I feel like is the best poem.
The deadline for entry of this contest is this Monday, January 23rd 2012 at 5pm Pacific. I’ll be listing the best poems and announcing the Grand Prize winner next Wednesday, January 25th.
Also, I will only be shipping to addresses in the continental United States (sorry to those of you in other countries, but maybe you could ship it to a friend in the US?)
Good Luck! Please leave your bacon poems below to win big and literally bring home the bacon!
Custom Musical Score for “Medicinal Grade Bacon” by Jed Wilson
Photo by Sidereal
Photo by mytvdinner
Fall Harvest Haiku
When the fat pig plays
Calling to me so sweetly
Tummy grumbles thanks.
Great work John! Way to set the bar high with the first poem :-)
Hi Doug.
I’m an incurable fan of bacon, so I had to be here today.
I have a favorite poem by William Carlos Williams. It goes like this:
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
And today, I rewrote and adapted Williams’ poem for your contest :)
(only because I want that pack of White Sugar-Free Hickory Smoked Pork Bacon! ;) )
I have devoured
the strips
of bacon
that were in
the fridge
and which
you were obviously
saving
for brunch
Forgive me
they were crispy
so sizzly
and so savory
so divine
Great article, my friend! It’s always a pleasure to read what you create and share.
Great one! That put a smile on my face!
As a fan of bacon, I thought I’d give this a shot too!
Bacon’s so crispy; so juicy; so sweet
So salty; so scrumptious; so completely complete
For breakfast, for dinner, for lunch or a snack
Bacon’s the treat that makes my lips smack
And of all of the bacons I like Turkey the best!
Just kidding
I tricked you
It was only a jest
Pigs make it the best, who could debate
The sound of the sizzle, the smell and the taste?
It is for bacon that I’m glad I’m not Jewish
To live without bacon would make me so sad and so blue-ish.
Wow Adan! I really like the turkey twist, “completely complete,” and the blue-ish rhyme – amazing!
what can I say? It was from the heart…
If I’d only found bacon in 2005…
That video is hilarious! Nice little cameo from Corbett there!
This is a must-share, definitely.
Well, at least now you know if anybody needs some help ;-)
Thanks Amy! It was a lot of fun to make.
The video is absolutely hilarious! I had to laugh out loud in the middle of writing a serious worksheet :) My son is unable to fully become vegetarian only because of bacon, and we’re not really helping him. There’s always enough hickory-smoked bacon in the fridge ;)
Doug, this is a great way of conveying important information in a fun and memorable way.
“and we’re not really helping him” – That made me laugh out loud.
Those drug commercials are so ridiculous. It was a lot of fun to make a parody and still throw in some useful info. My great cast and I were cracking up the whole time.
Great idea Doug! Here’s my entry, a bacon haiku:
Bacon, my sweet love
Fry up that smokey goodness
GET IN MY BELLY!
Bacon and haiku go so good together! “GET IN MY BELLY” – love it!
Bacon, Bacon,
tender and sweet.
A rainbow of magenta,
that’s one fantastic meat.
LunaMay (age 8)
Nice LunaMay! It is one fantastic meat.
Bacon, Bacon,
tender and sweet.
You melt in my mouth,
While my other pig runs down the street.
LunaMay (age 8)
This one cracks me up!
My bacon poem should be rapped and sung to the first verse and chorus of Jay-Z’s “Empire State Of Mind”. Ha!
Yeah I’m at sunrise, lookin’ for a fast breaker
Scrambling a few eggs, now I need a taste maker
I almost forgotcha, on the same shelf as beer
Sittin’ in my fridge in a package with the package clear
All of that delicious pig, I couldn’t stop at one piece
Had me droppin’ 6 strips, frying pan full of grease
Now I got my mouth full, and then I taste meat
Bacon extra crispy in the morning is a great treat
Cruisin’ down your street, looking for breakfast
I get mine at Kerbey’s Diner when I’m in Texas
Me I’m still hungry, I’ll have some more piggy
Lunch, dinner, snacks, doesn’t matter bacon you can give me
So give bacon a try, don’t believe the white lies
Cholesterol and health will not take a nose dive
Nitrates they be left out, or at least they better be
Tell by my appetite, that I most definitely…
Chew Pork…
Extra crispy bacon is tastey
And happy it makes me
Now when you chew pork…
Make sure that it’s quality bacon
And nothing that’s fakin’
Make mine the good pork, good pork, good pork
That’s pretty amazing and with a little gansta flare! I would love to see you rap that with the background music. Thanks Vic!
Roses are red
Bacon is too
Poems are hard
Bacon