Bacon has as many forms as forums for discussion. It’s not heart healthy, but it inspires heart-felt loyalty. Richard Stevens, creator of the insanely funny and thoroughly retro 8-bit comic Diesel Sweeties, has had veins of bacon running through his strips for years (sample right). You can tout your own belief in the vegetarian qualities of pork by buying the t-shirt or even show the world your own bacon-producing robot. Yes, I do take pictures of bacon in all of its served splendor and send them to Mr. Stevens.
What good is art, comic or serious, if not reflected in our own strange reality? It’s enlightening (or creepy) when life imitates art. Chalk one up for “creepy” when I encountered this nice slab of prosciutto with grapes on the “vegetarian table” at a conference for institutes of higher education (modulo culinary training schools, I’m sure) held in the French Alps. I’m not sure if placing grapes on the prosciutto makes it a less powerful meat through the circular arguments of rochambeau, or if the untrimmed smoked pork beats the grapes and therefore resolves to a vegetable through the same reasoning.
Or maybe it just fell off the truck crossing the border at Torino, proving that there is such a thing as a free lunch as long as you are flexible with your labels. Prosciutto is not bacon but it’s most definitely pigging out in the vegetable’s domain.
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