Two words: bacon hangover.
Oh, sure, it sounds like fun, savoring piece after piece of glistening-with-fat-drippings thick-slab bacon that you haven’t had in over three years, but are now fully enjoying upon your discovery of free-range bacon from farm-raised, humanely treated, antibiotic- and growth hormone-free pigs, courtesy of Beeler Farms. So you eat a few pieces with your farm-fresh fried eggs (which have been fried in the bacon drippings, of course), and then you think, “Oh, one more piece surely couldn’t hurt,” and, soon after, “You know, I might as well finish off the package, since there’s only a few pieces left, right?” And oh, that bacon tastes so good going down, so salty and fatty, so crispy and chewy, all at the same time.
And then, a few hours later, the bacon sweats begin. Followed by the bacon nausea and maybe even the slightest bacon headache. Had I indulged in a few more pieces, I may have even contracted the bacon shakes. I’ll never know how close to the edge I came during my bacon binge. All I can say is, the hangover wasn’t all that fun . . . but it was deliciously worth it.
