{"id":1489,"date":"2011-02-10T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2011-02-10T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:58:47","slug":"video-bacon-finally-goes-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/video-bacon-finally-goes-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Bacon Finally Goes Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made it a point to narrow the focus on this blog to (well, mostly) music news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\">podcast updates<\/a>, or anything related to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animalfriendsrescue.org\/available\/dogsavailable.html\" target=\"_blank\">foster pups<\/a> (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animalfriendsrescue.org\/available\/dogsavailable.html\" target=\"_blank\">kittens<\/a>). You&#8217;ll never find discussion of politics or finance, and the only soapbox I&#8217;ll ever stand on in this forum is when I occasionally nag people to fix their pets. Still, there&#8217;s such an abundance of pop culture ramblings Twittering and linking around the interwebs that some of it is inevitably bound to spill in here on occasion. <\/p>\n<p>Take bacon, for example. Bacon has evolved from a wonderfully high-fat, high-sodium, yet perfect breakfast food into a web-based pop culture phenomenon. Do a Google search on bacon, and you&#8217;ll find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcphee.com\/shop\/products\/Mr.-Bacon's-Big-Adventure-Board-Game.html\" target=\"_blank\">bacon boardgames<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcphee.com\/shop\/products\/Bacon-Flavored-Toothpicks.html\" target=\"_blank\">bacon toothpicks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcphee.com\/shop\/products\/Bacon-Mints.html\" target=\"_blank\">bacon mints<\/a>, and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/bacon-wrapped-turkey-breast-stuffed-with-pear-hash-recipe\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">recipes <\/a>for bacon wrapped and baked in several layers of other meat products. <\/p>\n<p>My pal Tommy up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee<\/a> and I make it a weekly ritual to try and out-bacon each other with wackier and wackier uses of that wonderful salt-laden pig product. I think I won this week when I sent him this YouTube recipe for a bacon smoothie. Tommy sent me a one-word reply: &#8220;Ick&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xnvxw7x25qk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<b>The Bacon Smoothie. No. Seriously.<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I was kind of speechless, too. Especially when the guy in this clip drank the thing. I cannot fathom downing a bacon smoothie, especially since he used *limp* bacon. That&#8217;s just wrong. He could have at least used a *crisp* slice of bacon as a swizzle stick. Then I might consider. <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fvideo-bacon-finally-goes-too-far%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made it a point to narrow the focus on this blog to (well, mostly) music news, podcast updates, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}