Bacon

@duodec Oven cook, 375F in a cast iron pan until yummm! (It’s normally about 25-35 minutes with the thick Costco bacon)

@duodec We’ve discovered you can darned near “fry” bacon in the microwave using two paper plates. They have to be the shiny grease resistant plates (probably giving ourselves all kinds of cancer with this method, but it’s worth the time and clean up on a busy morning when you want bacon).

Lay 3 or 4 pieces on the plate (no paper towels because it’ll cause the bacon to steam). Invert the second plate on top of the plate of bacon. Microwave for 3 to 4 minutes depending on bacon thickness & microwave power. Carefully remove from microwave–there will be a lot of grease. Drain on paper towels. I like my bacon golden & crispy, or so it can “shatter” as my kids say.
Oscar Meyer & Smithfield make the perfect thickness for this method. Extra thick slices have a learning curve tend to steam if you crowd the plate.

@LaVikinga I bought one of these plates at Wal-Mart for $10. I hated having to waste a ton of paper towels if I was making a whole pack of bacon for a family breakfast. Between rounds I dump the grease into a yogurt container with a lid. Works best with regular thickness bacon. Thick sliced seems to shrivel into nothing. I like my bacon crispy like that as well. I hate going to a restaurant and getting floppy bacon.
http://www.kitchencollection.com/progressive-microwave-bacon-cooker

@RiotDemon The only drawback is that there’s something to wipe out and then wash.

@RiotDemon Some years ago I got one of those things since my kid was addicted to bacon and she was melting holes in our plastic dishes (yes plastic because when she was doing the dishes and was mad she’d purposely smack the glass ones around) cooking bacon on them. I did find that eventually the ridges on these also have melt marks. I guess eating embedded plastic fumes is no worse for us than some of the other things we eat - like the bacon itself.

@thismyusername If you’re not fussy about how your bacon looks, Wright sells an “Ends & Pieces” 4lb bag for about 1/3 less than their regular sliced bacon. It’s worth it if you can find it.

@LaVikinga
I’m now hungry. It’s your fault, but I’m blaming the Goat.

@f00l Go make bacon!

@LaVikinga I’m headed to the kitchen to make some right now. Bacon and tomato sandwiches for lunch coming up.

@heartny how many know what a floppy drive is, much less seen one? (me)
Anyone actually still have a computer w a floppy disk slot? Clearly this is an old set of rules, where do i put the bacon now to fix my computer? Even CD drives are becoming obsolete. Most tablets don’t have them, and at my work there are only two computers with them (a conf room and one of 3 in the IT folks’ office), everyone has thin clients. What do i do now, what do i do?!

@mollama it’s now the B in USB.

@heartny mostly true… however I was recently shocked to find that fried rice is one food that surprisingly is not better with bacon. At least not the rice they were sampling at Costco.

What’s extra ironic about that fact, is that the way we got our picky kid to finally try eating fried rice (not from Costco) was by telling her that the little pork bits in it were “Chinese bacon.”

@curtise USB stands for USe Bacon

@mollama yeah, that’s true, and yet, ironically, the icon for “save” is still a floppy disk on computers!

@Mehsturbator Canadian bacon, which we just call peameal bacon or back bacon, is wonderful stuff. It is different from side bacon (which we also have lots of here) but it’s an equally amazing any-time meat. And it hands down kicks the butt of any other pig meat you could put on an Eggs Benedict!
But if you want REALLY Canadian bacon, then check out

(if you don’t get it then you probably should ask a Canadian friend)

@curtise I felt like I’d been deceived my entire life when I was in Canada in January and the bacon was exactly the same as it is back home.

Also,
/image CBC logo

@curtise I’ve heard American bacon referred to as “streaky bacon.” Canadian bacon, while good, is more like ham by another name.

@UncleVinny
? (know little of Seattle besides coffee, billionaires, islands, and rain)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_man_(football)

An early reference to the numerical “12th Man” term occurred at the 1922 Dixie Classic,[citation needed] featuring Centre College and The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (later known as Texas A&M). During the game, A&M coach Dana X. Bible realized that one more injury would leave him without another backfield player to send into the game. Coach Bible remembered that E. King Gill, an individual who had tried out for the squad but who “lacked the experience and ability to play for the varsity”[citation needed] had made the trip as a member of the school’s Corps of Cadets and was sitting with his friends in the stands.[4][better source needed] Bible sent for Gill and asked for him to suit up and be ready if needed.[citation needed] Gill later said, “I wish I could say that I went in and ran for the winning touchdown, but I did not. I simply stood by in case my team needed me.”[5] Although he did not actually play in the game, his readiness to play was noted.

Texas A&M[edit]
See also: Traditions of Texas A&M University
The Texas A&M student section of Kyle Field stands the entire game to show support for the football team
The first known instance of Texas A&M referring to its fanbase as the “12th Man” is contained on page 17 of 25 November 1921 edition of The Battalion, the Texas A&M campus newspaper.[56] Current Texas A&M students call themselves the 12th Man, and have done so continuously since the 1920s. Ever since the day E. King Gill left the stands in 1922, the entire student body has stood throughout the game to symbolize their “readiness, desire, and enthusiasm” to take the field if needed.[4] A statue of E. King Gill stands to the north of Kyle Field to remind Aggies of their constant obligation to preserve the spirit of the 12th Man.[5] Beginning in 1985, fans also began waving 12th Man Towels during the game to show their support. The tradition of towels started when coach Jackie Sherrill’s 12th man squad began carrying them to motivate the student body in the stands.
Because the students are always waiting for the opportunity to support their team, they are also willing to share the credit for the team’s good deeds. A popular Aggie tradition is that “when the team scores, everybody scores”.[57] Whenever the Aggies score points during the game, students kiss their dates.[57]
Football coach Jackie Sherrill created the “12th Man Kick-Off Team” in the 1980s, composed of non-athletic scholarship students who tried out for the team. Coach Sherrill has written a book entitled “No Experience Required” which details this team and the tradition. These students were placed on the roster for the sole purpose of kickoffs. The squad was nicknamed “the suicide squad”. These students often had little regard for their safety and were determined to make a tackle at any cost.[58][59] The 12th Man Kick-Off Team was extremely successful and eventually held opponents to one of the lowest yards-per-return average in the league during kickoffs.[when?][60] Later, head coach R. C. Slocum changed the team to allow only one representative of the 12th Man on the kick off team who wears uniform number 12.[5] The player is chosen based on the level of determination and hard work shown in practices. Under Dennis Franchione, the 12th Man Kick-Off Team composed of walk-ons was brought back, though used only rarely when the team was up by quite a few points.[61][62]
On June 30, 2014, Texas A&M bought the domain name 12thman.com, which then became its official athletics website.[63][64]

https://www.12thmanfoundation.com/

(I am not an Aggie.)

@f00l
more:

Texas A&M trademark[edit]
Texas A&M University applied on December 26, 1989, for trademark U.S. Ser. No. 74013898 related to usage of the term. The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the “trademark registration” September 4, 1990, to Texas A&M. Four additional Trademark claims related to the “12th Man” term were also filed and granted at later dates by Texas A&M University (See U.S. Ser. Nos. 74560726, 76671314, 85977835 and 85851199), the first three of which have achieved Incontestable Status[jargon] as a result of its section 15 affidavit with the Patent and Trademark Office. According to former Texas A&M Athletic Director Bill Byrne, he contacted the Chicago Bears and Buffalo Bills about halting their “12th Man” themes.[78] Byrne stated that, “they responded quickly with our requests to stop using our Twelfth Man trademark.”[79] Texas A&M sent requests to stop using the phrase to the Seattle Seahawks in both 2004 and 2005. The Seahawks did not respond to the requests.[80]
In January 2006, Texas A&M filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the Seattle Seahawks and in May 2006, the dispute was settled out of court. Neither side admitted any fault or liability. In the agreement, the Seahawks licensed the phrase in exchange for $100,000, along with public acknowledgement as to Texas A&M’s ownership rights of the phrase, and an additional annual fee.[81] The compensation amounted to $5,000 per year.[82][83] The agreement, which expired in 2016, limited the Seahawks’ usage to seven western states and forbid them from selling any “12th Man” merchandise.[82] In August 2015, the Seahawks shifted towards calling their fans the “12s”, and replaced their “Home of the 12th Man” stadium sign with a new “Home of the 12s” sign.[84]
On November 12, 2015, Texas A&M filed suit against the Indianapolis Colts after repeated cease and desist requests were ignored by the NFL club.[85] On February 17, 2016, the lawsuit was settled with the Colts agreeing to remove the phrase from their Ring of Honor and to immediately cease all other uses of the trademarked phrase.[38]
In August 2016, the Seahawks agreed to a new five year trademark licensing agreement with Texas A&M. As part of the agreement, the Seahawks agreed to pay Texas A&M $140,000 for limited rights to use the trademarked term. This agreement, like the previous agreement, prohibits the Seahawks from using the “12th Man” term on any merchandise. The new agreement however, also prohibits Seattle from using the term on social media, nor are they allowed to use the term on any signage within their stadium, including their Ring of Honor.[86]

@f00l Reminds me of this:

@UncleVinny 12th Man!!! I fly my ‘12’ flag during football season. Go Hawks. Go Bacon. Go Beer.

@LaVikinga

Our family are all serious legacy Longhorns. From before 1900 I think.

When Mom was in college (1940’s), she dated an Aggie for a while.

She told me: “He was a great guy, but I didn’t love him enough, and he didn’t love me enough, for us to ever completely cross the Aggie/Longhorn divide.”
“But every Aggie game we went to, we stood for the entire game. I think we were both relieved when he fell for an Aggie girl and I found a Longhorn I wanted to date.”
“Just think, you three kids could have all been half Aggie.”

At which point we would make gagging noises.

I do know of a local household, where the front door and the interior decoration are 1/2 burnt orange and 1/2 maroon. Some rooms are divided down the middle by wall color.

The kids took sides also in their college choices.

Kinda like this, except "whole house"

@f00l I see similar Florida State/University Of Florida households in my area with the same type of decor. Football is serious stuff in the south.

@f00l if you were an Aggie, it might cause you to be annoyingly braggie.

You should get to know Seattle. Time-of-year-wise, it’s 3/4ths grey moistness, 1/4ths sunny gorgeousness. Plus (aside from the sports-loving meatheads, who’ve become much more emboldened and noisy since the steakhawks won the goddam stupidbowl), it has a brainy-arty vibe that’s a balm in these pig-ignorant times.

@UncleVinny

I know. Would like to check it out.

Have a relative living in Victoria BC. Someday I’ll get up there.

@UncleVinny

if you were an Aggie, it might cause you to be annoyingly braggie

Not an Aggie. The very thought!

"Never ask a man if he’s from Texas. If he is, he’ll tell you. If he isn’t, don’t embarrass him.”

Attribution unknown, more than a century old.

And quite accurate.

@rand3y

Wow. People really take bacon seriously.

@PlacidPenguin Yep!!

@rand3y lol at the “why love one and eat the other?” billboard. Such silly and small-minded vegetarians. The correct answer is that we can love AND eat BOTH of them.

@Turken True story, but until I can buy dog at Costco I’m afraid I’ll never really know if it comes close to the joy of bacon.

@LaVikinga I do cut them in half, I find the full length is too long on the Kirkland bacon. My main reason for doing so is to help the bacon fit in the cast iron – I get more pan surface area coverage with the bacon cut in half.

@jjohns71 I really should join Costco.

@jjohns71 I always cut it in half; otherwise the middle’s nice and crisp but the ends are slimy.

@mikedt I’m not allowed to drink tequila ever again. And yes, there’s a story there.

@LaVikinga

Can you tell? Please please?

@LaVikinga Sounds good to me. Only improvement I could come up with was using smoked cream cheese…YUMM!

@chienfou Adding a slather of good guacamole is actually pretty good, too. A Keto diet has its decadent advantages.

@cinoclav too many levels of separation…?

@daveinwarsh Meh foodsaver?

@meh My dad got me a couple of those once. They sat for like two days before I was in the right mood to try it. It was good then, but then the next day I looked at the other one and was like “nope”. I think you have to really, really be in the right mood for maple and bacon to work as a flavour combo.

@Mehsturbator I dip my bacon in maple syrup and eat it as dessert after pancakes.

@moondrake i find bacon with maple syrup on it at breakfast perfectly acceptable. perhaps it was the ultrasweetness of the doughnut that made the flavor profile too strong. or the creamy, pasty texture combination?

@moondrake …ditto with sausage patties!

@chienfou YES, especially those wonderful breakfast sausage patties.
Flapjacks & sausage with real maple syrup.
Sausage is about even with bacon in my opinion…

@daveinwarsh i also love sausage patties. i like to put them and bacon in that weirdo breakfast sandwich maker i got from here

@meh just 2 patties with bacon between?? You might be on to something there!

@chienfou got to stay low carb. the egg is okay too but the plate for it is too wide. i want to get a smaller metal ring so the egg stays between the patties.

@meh OK, I can see that, too!

@daveinwarsh OMG that’s awesome (and looks delicious)!

@Kevin you aren’t the Kevin we have all been referring to are you??? That would be soooo cool!