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Man Pays For Cross-Country Trip Using Bacon As Currency
An anonymous reader writes in with a story about the power of bacon."Travel can be expensive. One man is using a unique way to pay for a trip as a challenge. Pennsylvania comedian Josh Sankey is on a mission to make a cross-country road trip from New York to Los Angeles with no other currency but bacon. Sankey isn't carrying any cash or credit cards as he makes his cross-country trip. He is paying for everything from gas to lodging by using uncooked bacon as currency. He set off on his trip with 3,000 pounds of the popular meat and he seems to be getting good deals with it so far."
He's going to try this in Israel.
Then Iran.
Now that would be comedy.
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Sadly, I'd give him a night's lodging for a morning's worth of the heavenly fare.
I mean seriously, he's going to travel 3000 miles with nothing but bacon. Sure it's corporate sponsored, but so what?
Go ahead and live the dream!
Bacon - is there anything it can't do?
So good it was banned by two religions.
Someone find him and get a statement.
Can you buy a dinner with Kevin Bacon with bacon?
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I have a feeling that this will come to an abrupt end once he reaches bear country. The bears are really hungry where I live (in the southwest), which is kind of on the way to L.A.
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The four basic food groups are:
1) Amano Chocolate -- There is no other chocolate.
2) Cream -- Ice Cream, butter, etc.
3) Bacon -- Bacon makes everything better.
4) Foie Gras -- If you haven't tried it, you don't know what you are missing -- really.
All the other foods such as veggies are simply eye candy designed to make you feel good about yourself.
Garlic. Also, if beverages count, many varieties of alcohol.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
He may find that he's divorced when he gets to L.A. "He's always talking about how much he's got but he never brings home the bacon."
I didn't RTFA, but if they give him all 3000 lbs at once it could be much more challenging.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
I hear for an encore he's going to try the same thing in Saudi Arabia.
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I hope he keeps good records. The services he trades for bacon are considered "barter income," and are taxable at fair market rates.
Add some beans, beer and garlic and you'd certainly have gasification.
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It's not real, much like their food products.
Wright brand Steak Cut Bacon. These incredible slabs of savory pork come six slices to the 20oz package, and are perfect for slow grilling. Bacon so thick that if you want, you can have it crispy on one side, and chewy on the other.
No, I don't work for the company.
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As a university student, I used to have a sign on my fridge in the shared house that read Chocolate, Alcohol and Mixers only, Please do not waste space with unnecessary items such as vegetables.
I also held the theory that an Irish Coffee was the perfect food containing all the major food groups: Chocolate, Caffeine, Sugars, Fats (Cream), Alcohol.
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imagine a letter B with 2 wavy vertical lines to symbolize the bacon strips
Don't believe the propaganda from the PETA folks. Yes, the ducks/geese are fed through tubes but after they've done it once or twice so they know what is going on, they come running every time the farmer is there to feed them. One of the top advocates of Hudson Valley Foie Gras is a politician who believed the PETA crap and went to tour the farm expecting to see all sorts of abuse. Once he arrived he saw what was going on and realized that PETA had lied to him and has fought for and defended Hudson Valley Foie Gras ever since.
Of course, the fact that he's being followed around by a film crew has nothing to do with his success at bartering his bacon. That's a pretty ridiculous stunt. He might as well just go up to all these people and say, "Hey, if you'll give me decent seats to this game, I'll let my film crew here get a clip of you handing me the tickets and you might wind up on national TV!"
Would you like a side of bacon with that moral outrage?
Or once he arrived he saw the big check they had cut him.
No, I'm not saying PETA is right - I'm just saying that for every time PETA has lied to me, so has a corrupt politician.
Frankly, I'll eat tasty critters even if I know they have suffered. I think the adrenaline in their systems when they are painfully slaughtered makes them tastier.
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4) Turd sandwich - If you haven't tried it, you don't know what you are missing -- really.
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No, I'm not saying PETA is right - I'm just saying that for every time PETA has lied to me, so has a corrupt politician.
PETA is a terrorist organisation, members of whom have made credible death threats to close friends of mine because PETA disagreed with the morality of the animal research that my friends where doing.
I do hold PETA activists in far lower esteem than I do your average corrupt politician, because the majority of them are dangerous lunatics.
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That's the new online currency using virtual bacon.
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It was a very touchy subject when Israel was created and many considerd it a bad sign for a free state that pork is indeed banned (Israel was supposed to be secular according to some founders, freedom for all, not just Jews). But an exception was made to allow Christian to raise pigs. Historically they are in the north and the farming has grown very intense creating a burden on the environment and creating unsanitary conditions. But any attempt to bring in normal farming regulations that are common in the rest of the world, any such law is seen as a religious attack on a minority group.
So... funny as it may sound, it is right now the Christians in Israel that have the greatest issue with pork... weird eh?
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Couple of questions:
1) WTF?
2) How is he transporting 3000 lbs of bacon?
3) What the hell does this have to do with Slashdot or technology?
4) Is this because Slashdot is being bought by Dice?
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Yes, because at least we gave the politicians the power to do so on our behalf. Vote them out if you don't like the wars
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