/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18377510]

What was up with that strange obsession that the internet had with bacon in the late 2000s and early 2010s?

[Anonymous No.18377513]

>>18377510
well you'd know the answer to that if you knew when the narwhal bacons silly

[Anonymous No.18377517]

Le ebicc meal time xD roflcopter lmao haha

[Anonymous No.18377521]

>>18377510
Bacon is.... LE EPIC!

[Anonymous No.18377522]

>>18377510
Unironically marketing by the pork industry

[Anonymous No.18377531]

>>18377510
The late 2000s and early 2010s was the time when normies got exposed to the internet
It was the era of the gaymer shit
It was the era of I love science geek shit
It was the era of awful memes

[Anonymous No.18377536]

>>18377510
Fragile masculinity in an age where physical hard labor is increasingly devalued

[Anonymous No.18377600]

>be insecure faggot
>MEN LIKE BACON AND BEARDS
>WOW LOOK AT ME BEARD AND BACON I AM A MAN LOOK LOOOOOOOK

[Anonymous No.18377638]

>>18377517
GAYBACONSTRIPS

[Anonymous No.18377669]

>>18377517
(((EpicMealTime)))

[Anonymous No.18378198]

The bacon obsession was cringe, but it was a better time anons.

[Anonymous No.18378202]

>>18377510
same with ham in the 90s
ham is just a funny word

[Anonymous No.18378222]

>>18377531
>>18378198
Kind of a weird time. Normalfags and old people got on the internet and used it super earnestly. People would insult or troll each other and get genuinely offended/hurt. The right wing was still largely Christian, prompting that weird online militant atheism. Fedoras were genuinely cool for about two weeks before immediately becoming deeply embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.18378250]

I’m pretty sure it’s viral advertising. Maybe not that one, but people freaking out about pizza, tacos, taco tuesday, dick filet, chipotel, Popeyes sandwiches, etc when none of it is particularly good

[Anonymous No.18378274]

>>18377510
Millennials are weird but I miss le bacon and mustaches to the covid dystopia we have been in now for 3 years

[Anonymous No.18378283]

>>18378274
I still know a guy who has a mustache tattoo on his inner index finger. He's addicted to meth now.

[Anonymous No.18378289]

>>18378283
in a just world all liberals and redditors would be addicted to hard drugs

[Anonymous No.18378291]

Bacon is good paired with other breakfast items, in a BLT, and crumbled over a cream-of type soup. All other uses for bacon are superfluous.

[Anonymous No.18378293]

>>18378289
Oddly enough he's extremely rightwind and racist.

[Anonymous No.18378294]

>>18378293
oh that's based then

[Anonymous No.18378306]

>>18377536
>Fragile masculinity
Normally I'd call you cringe but we are talking about redditors here.

[Anonymous No.18378313]

>>18377510
It's tasty. It's healthy. It helps prevent against prion disease. What more could you ask for? In fact, I might run down to my local marketplace and pick up a bacon to eat right now!

[Anonymous No.18378373]

>>18378291
I feel the opposite. Any time I'm eating a dish that contains bacon I think to myself "this is pretty good, but I'd really rather be eating just plain bacon."

[Anonymous No.18378567]

>>18378294
Based on what?

[Anonymous No.18378594]

>>18377510
it was literally the result of promotional efforts by the meat industry to make bacon trendy

[Anonymous No.18378602]

>>18378594
>>18377522
Not necessarily disbelieving, but what evidence is there that the epic bacon meme was a PR push from Big Pork?

[Anonymous No.18379712]

>>18377669
>be canadian jew
>become famous for eating American bacon

[Anonymous No.18379736]

>>18377510
Big Bacon™ was briefly threatened. It's all okay again though, now that people are poor and their rent is $2k a month nobody cares. Things are so perfectly terrible that bacon is no longer afraid of the healthy eating movement, bacon is fighting for market share again fucking SPAM and military rations

[Anonymous No.18379892]

Here's a pretty good article: https://web.archive.org/web/20160326124631/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-06/bacon-why-americas-favorite-food-mania-happened
tl;dr, lean meat diet trends of the 80s and 90s meant pork belly wasn't selling, so the Pork Board lobbied fast food restaurants to add bacon to their sandwiches and pushed the "Bacon Makes It Better” slogan. I'm sure there was an organic desire for rebelling against "healthy" food too, and bacon hits the fatty, salty, meaty points.

[Anonymous No.18379897]

>>18377510
THIS PROMOTION BROUGHT TO YOU BY AMMO MULE. KEEP YOUR AMMO COOL AND YOUR BACON HOT!

[Anonymous No.18381398]

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[Anonymous No.18381410]

>>18379897
was not expecting a MNC reference today

[Anonymous No.18381413]

>>18377510
Islamophobia

[Anonymous No.18381442]

people always point to bacon but insecure dudebro wannabes did this shit with steak too back then. meat in general was this turbo mans man wankfest for whatever reason.

[Anonymous No.18381473]

Unironically, >>18381413 also might have something to do with it. Bacon had a vaguely patriotic vibe to it.

Vegans hated it, Muslims and Jews hated it, "liberals" hated it, therefore bacon was the most American food ever. Or something like that.
It feels like everything during the post 9/11.

[Anonymous No.18381480]

I don't like the taste of bacon, too salty. The only aspect of it I like is the grease one can preserve to enhance the flavour of other foods.

[Anonymous No.18381859]

[Anonymous No.18381872]

>>18377522
This and anyone believing dumb shit like
>it was just innocent, organic, internet culture
REALLY shouldn't be on 4chan, if you're that gullible you're going to get turned into a schizo here

[Anonymous No.18382304]

>>18378283
saw a guy with the same tattoo in prison in TX. nobody liked that faggot.

[Anonymous No.18382338]

>>18378222
>The right wing was still largely Christian, prompting that weird online militant atheism
I explained to my fundamentalist Shia coworker what Pastafarianism was the other day. He seems to still be confused about it. It's also sad that trolling the Westboro Baptist Church died out after that time.

[Anonymous No.18382471]

>>18382338
>tfw the amazing atheist shoved a banana up his ass
Seeing TJ's fat ogre of a girlfriend was unironically my first step on the path towards finding god.

[Anonymous No.18382496]

Parks and rec's bearded fag was a lot of the rage then. And he encapsulated a performative, almost drag-queen-esque take on masculinity where you have to be ostentatious and over the top with it. I'm not one to talk for how unmasculine I am, I just know that sincerely masculine people don't larp as ron swanson.

>>18378291
The funny thing is when I hear how bacon's this super deadly evil food and you look at the nutrition label and if you have ~4 pieces it's fucking nothing.

[Anonymous No.18382600]

>>18377510
that part of the internet was all about taking things 8 year olds think are cool and embracing them as adults. dinosaurs, pirates, lasers, ninjas, retro games and saturday morning cartoons, action movie cliches, weird looking animals, etc. junk food like bacon is just another one of them

[Anonymous No.18382653]

>>18382304
Was there any... you know... in prison?

[Anonymous No.18382713]

Sausage is tastier and you all know it

[Anonymous No.18382729]

The century of self covered this

[Anonymous No.18382735]

>>18382600
this tbf desu kawaii wa >.<

[Anonymous No.18382746]

>>18377510
Bacon is awesome. That's why.

[Anonymous No.18382867]

massive push by pork industry
being healthy was trendy in the 80s and they weren't having it

[Anonymous No.18382877]

>>18382713
You would know, faggot

[Anonymous No.18382887]

>>18377510
read Propaganda by Edward Bernays. Its public domain and like 150 pages

[Anonymous No.18382890]

>>18377510
We have the same cringe meme with raclette here every fucking year when the temp goes below 15°

>If he doesn't raclette dump him x))))
>My mother refused raclette so I killed her lmaoooo cheese is so tasty
>Mhmmm this weather smells like RACLETTE
>Who's up for a RACLETTE PARTY ? :DDD

[Anonymous No.18382892]

>>18377510
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4pqRx7OB-Y
Successful marketing so they could make the undesirable offcuts desirable

[Anonymous No.18382894]

>>18377510
Along with other Anons' explanations, I'll toss in how your average normie back then didn't know how to prepare meats (eating meat is manly) any more than normies do today. Bacon, however, is so easy to cook any retard can do it.
So insecure men who wanted to appear more manly would grow out their neckbeards, refuse to learn how to cook, and just slap a bunch of garbage from their grocery store like doritos and preshredded cheese together and call it EPIC MAN FOOD.
This was mostly a Myspace/Facebook/Reddit/generic meme site thing that's pretty much been replaced by [current political opinion] as the coest, hippest thing to support.
Drones will be drones, and I'm tired of retards pretending they're old being nostalgic for it. It was only 10 years ago, and is as cringy now as it was then.

[Anonymous No.18382920]

I remember seeing those bacon dinks back in my freshman year of college around 2011. They were the same knobs who wore neon colored fanny packs and "I MUSTACHE YOU A QUESTION" shirts. Yeah there was a period where lots of those people were selling mustache merchandise. I always just figured those were business students desperate for money so they were willing to sell their pride and hawk that cringe shit on the sidewalk.

[Anonymous No.18382943]

>>18379897
Man MNC was great, thanks for reminding me of a better time :(

[Anonymous No.18382983]

>>18378274
>people are now nostalgic about the 2010s
oh. oh god oh no... how far have we fallen...

[Anonymous No.18382985]

>>18382983
NTA, but I just think everything online's becoming too sanitized, corporate, and disposable.

[Anonymous No.18383012]

[Anonymous No.18383435]

>>18382983
>>people are now nostalgic about the 2010s
Yeah because everything keeps on getting worse YoY

[Anonymous No.18383491]

>he doesn't raise his own bacon
ngmi

[Anonymous No.18383502]

>>18383491
very good post

[Anonymous No.18384938]

>>18383491
Quality

[Anonymous No.18386199]

>>18378291
Bacon is good in stews and that's about it

[Anonymous No.18386256]

>>18377522
>>18377531
>>18378274
>>18379736
>>18379892
The main theory I heard was that a lot of millenials grew up in cuckhouses where the moms wouldn't allow bacon to be cooked because it was fatty and therefore...le bad. Once they turned 18 and became adults in the late 2000s they just went hogwild for bacon and memed it as a result. There were literal "bacon fests"

[Anonymous No.18386260]

>>18381398
DOGS DONT KNOW ITS NOT BACON

[Anonymous No.18386266]

Somebody once gave me bacon scented soap. White people and their weird gag gifts

[Anonymous No.18386271]

>>18386266
yeah, just like frog retards and their posts

[Anonymous No.18386274]

>>18382920
Thing is all those people that meme'd moustaches either couldn't or wouldn't grow one. Never understood that.

[Anonymous No.18386280]

>>18386271

[Anonymous No.18386307]

>>18377510
It was...TEH NINJAS... o_O

[Anonymous No.18386317]

so if bacon was being marketed back then what about cheese products these days? Go into any /ck/ webm thread and look at any of those top-down facebook cooking webms and you'll almost always find cheese.
What is big dairy's end goal?

[Anonymous No.18386325]

>>18386317
cheese is acutally good by itself and has huge varieties. Bacon was just lol so random xd le wrap bacon with. . . BACON XD XD ^^ fuck u mom I'm gonna eat extra unhealthy hehehe no veggies for this big boi atkins ftw