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Man Pays For Cross-Country Trip Using Bacon As Currency

Posted by samzenpus on from the my-favorite-of-the-salted-meats dept.

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."

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  1. He's going international next. by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's going to try this in Israel.

    Then Iran.

    Now that would be comedy.

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    1. Re:He's going international next. by xlsior · · Score: 5, Funny

      What's the exchange rate for Canadian bacon?

  2. Re:Bacon! by vuke69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bacoin?

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  3. Is this country great or what? by mveloso · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. complication by tunabomber · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. If he's married... by guttentag · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

  6. Taxable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I hope he keeps good records. The services he trades for bacon are considered "barter income," and are taxable at fair market rates.

  7. Currency Symbol by acjacinto · · Score: 5, Interesting

    imagine a letter B with 2 wavy vertical lines to symbolize the bacon strips

  8. Re:Bacon -- One of the Basic Food Groups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would you like a side of bacon with that moral outrage?

  9. Re:Bacon -- One of the Basic Food Groups by niftydude · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  10. 1.03 in Baccoin by kawabago · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the new online currency using virtual bacon.