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Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable'
New submitter The name is Dave. Ja debuts on the front page with the most dismal news of our time: "This is truly 'Stuff That Matters'. Where would civilization be today without bacon? I don't mean to be alarmist but ... sound the alarms! This is big — it could lead to civil unrest."
Yes, a bacon shortage. Hopefully what bacon there is will be more delicious after being fed with gummi worms.
...please learn about the pork cycle.
Umm, no. A lot of modern items are the result of clever marketing of previously unused material but bacon is not one of them: http://homecooking.about.com/od/foodhistory/a/baconhistory.htm
chicken wings: used to be offal, good only for thickening soups/stocks; now buffalo wings are even simulated by using the "higher-quality" white meat.
skimmed milk: used to be thrown away or concentrated into whey solids. now also sold for the same price as real milk, while also selling the removed cream at a premium. possibly the greatest scam in culinary history.
nutria/coypu: a predictably failed attempt to market this nuisance rodent as a food product.
canola oil (and some other vegetable oils): formerly only a lubricant, hydrogenated into margarine as a "healthier" butter replacement, which it turned out not to be. trivia fact: canola is a trademark for CANadian Oil, Low Acid; the real name is "rapeseed oil," or sometimes even "rape oil," changed for obvious reasons.
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