You just tell 'em lies, lies

[venta]

Today, as per usual for a Friday, the degenerate end of the office hived off to the pub for lunch.

I ordered a burger. Please could I not have bacon[*] in it?

Sure, said the barman, the bacon wasn't compulsory. Did I want something else in it instead?

Like what?

"We...ll. Mushrooms?" he improvised. "Or an egg? Or black pudding?"

"Really?" I asked, bouncing gently up and down. "I could have black pudding in my burger?"

Apparently yes, if I wanted.

I wanted.

Black pudding in a cheese burger is awesome.

Accordingly, for being friendly and willing to improvise and serving Rebellion's Fat Cat[**], this week's Designated Hero of the Week is The Maiden Over.


[*] I don't dislike bacon. I just don't get as excited about it as everyone else. And I don't think it belongs in my burgers.
[**] Although it has just been demonstrated that a pint of Fat Cat has rendered one of my colleagues unable to count accurately up to 2.

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Lots of people don't get that excited about bacon, despite internet people banging on about it, making T-shirts, etc.
Prosciutto crudo is much nicer, if we're limiting ourselves to things one can do with a pig.

[venta.livejournal.com]

It's not just the internet. Even in the dim and distant, people would claim that the smell of bacon sandwiches was the downfall of vegetarians everywhere. I never really got it. I'd really rather not be vegetarian, but if had to be then bacon would be a long way down the list of things I'd miss.

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Here be woolly mammoths.

[zotz]

I've never understood the bacon thing. I quite liked it back when I still ate meat, but I haven't particularly missed it since and I don't offhand remember any other vegetarian mention it. Opal Fruits, yes, but the current version is vegetarian again so I'm sorted.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I really like the smell of bacon. I really don't much like the texture and thus don't bother eating it (and in burgers it's always soggy which is about the least appetising it can be).

Luckily for me, well-cooked gammon steaks smell just the same (well, close enough), and lardons/pancetta are a good addition to most dishes without the risk of nasty soggy bacon rinds...

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I'm vegetarian and I really don't like the smell of cooking bacon.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I do quite like those supposedly-bacon-flavoured little chippings of soya though. I used to sprinkle them on many things.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I do (did) like bacon very much, and still find the smell appealing. But I'm made of sterner stuff than to be downfalled by such things :-p..

(hmm, that was meant to be drool, not sure it works very well)