Howdy friends! It’s your best buddy pal-e-pal Bacon here. I’m continuing to go across the country to let people now about my run for public office. Even though I’m going all over the place in my special Bacon Bus, I still have plenty of time to read your e-mails so keep sending them in! This week, I’ve selected a letter from Nathan Tracler of Alma, Georgia. Nathan writes:
Dear Bacon, I can’t tell you how much I love you and how excited I am that you’re running for office. I read your column every week and I see you’re on tour spreading the love of bacon to all of America. So I wondered, would you like to come to my hometown of Alma, Georgia? If there’s one reason why you should come to my little town, it’s because we are the county seat of Bacon County!
Wow! A Bacon County?!? How cool is that?!?!?!? Well Nathan I’ve done a little research and I honestly can’t commit to stopping by Alma, and the beloved Bacon County, just yet. I’d like to say the town sound like a nice place to live, but according to epodunk.com, of the 32 “listed places” in Bacon County, 28 of them are cemeteries! YIKES! I guess you could say people are dying to get to Bacon County, but for a county with just over 10,000 people I think 28 cemeteries is a little overkill (no pun intended… really).
Other than the freaky cemetery stat, Bacon County does sound like a pleasant place. You have a school, a library, a nice and clean Days Inn hotel, and an improving economy with the per capital personal income rising 17 % from 1997 to 2002 (although it’s much lower than the national average). I think another cool thing about your community is it’s right next to Coffee County, and General Coffee State Park. Does anybody not like coffee with their bacon?
But there are some drawbacks. A blogger at epodunk named “Melisa” (just one “s”?) gives a thumbs down to Alma for “small town politics”. Apparently the town’s big summer event ins the blueberry festival. Blueberry festival? How about a bacon festival? You are the county seat for BACON COUNTY after all! Finally, it sounds like the residents of Alma are a bit confused. In the latest ancestry report for Alma, 63% knew their ancestry, with the top three being black (39%), Irish (7%), and English (7%). So what do the other 37% claim to be (other than card-carrying members of the NRA)?
Nathan, I’m afraid I am going to have to pass right now, but you never know when Bacon will be in Bacon! Keep eating and loving your bacon, and I may be in your town when you least expect it!
Have a question for Bacon? E-mail him at bacon@justaddbacon.com
Howdy friends!
It’s your old pal bacon here, taking a break from the campaign trail to answer another of your letters. With so much political talk lately (thanks to my run for public office) I’ve decided to go non-political this week in answering a note from Robert Oned of St. Petersburg, Florida. He writes:
Dear Bacon,I was recently in the As Seen on TV store in the mall (don’t ask why) when I stumbled upon quite possibly the greatest invention on the face of the earth! Bacon-flavored salt! Could this really be true? Why hasn’t it swept the nation yet?
Well Robert, even news of bacon-flavored salt was news to me! I did a little research and found that, yes indeed, there is bacon-flavored salt thanks to two guys named Justin and Dave. According to their website, the two gentlemen came up with the idea for a bacon-flavored salt while discussing their mutual love for bacon at dinner. The idea was such a good one, even their vegetarian friend said it was good!
Bacon salt comes in three flavors: original (smoky), hickory, and peppered. Apparently a maple-flavored variation didn’t work out (which I find hard to believe!). You can buy them separately at stores or online, or in bunches including the hilarious “fantasy football” 6-pack, “12 Days of Stocking Stuffers” 12-pack for Christmas, and the “Eight Days of Kosher Bacon” 9-pack just in time for the Jewish holidays!
And that leads me to this exciting news… the guys claim the salt is kosher and vegetarian! That means people who normally can’t get me, soon can’t get enough of me! Now you can add the great taste of me without having to fry me up or worry about breaking your religious or dietary beliefs!
And all this time I thought I brought just happiness to people. I guess I bring ingenuity too! Now as for why it hasn’t taken over the world yet, just give it some time Robert. According to the website the product has been available for only a few months, and TRUST ME… this will be big! Good work Justin and Dave! Now I can add the great taste of me to my coffee in the morning!
Have a question for Bacon? E-mail him at bacon@justaddbacon.com!
Howdy! It’s you’re good ol’ pal Bacon checking in from the campagn trail, and I’m also checking out my mail bag to find some more entertaining letters from people like Phillip Halloran in Sioux City, Iowa:
Dear Bacon,Are you aware you have a political opponent in relish? I keep seeing a commercial for a relish packet running for office! And one man says the relish packet saved his life? What gives?!?
Well Phillip, it appears you have been caught off-guard and you shouldn’t be concerned. I belive this is the commercial you’re talking about:
The commercial is actually a public service message from the Ad Council encouraging people to vote. Despite the numerous airplay of this commercial (and a :15 version of the same spot), I have confirmed my good buddy the “old relish packet” is not running for office. In fact, he is resting on his ranch in Wyoming and has no desire to get back into the political race. And as for him saving a life, that’s a story he doesn’t like to share much. I think doctors call it post-tramatic stress disorder, so I won’t bring it up here.
Now back to the commercial… it’s actually from the 2006 election period, and encourages younger people to vote. By saying not voting = voting for an old relish packet implies not voting is basically throwing your vote away. It’s a novel idea, and a humorous look at why everyone should vote during election time. But there is a big problem here.
When you go to the website referenced at the end of the commercial, you end up with nothing you expect to see at a “go out and vote” website. In fact when you first look at it, you think you’ve been duped into the wrong website. But it is indeed a website for the Ad Council… promoting good karma and not good condiments! Someone may want to tell the Ad Council this, since thousands of people are going to a website that doesn’t advertise what it’s supposed to (Here’s the cached website, thanks to Google).
If this can get cleared up, then people won’t think they’re going to the wrong website. And hopefully people won’t think relish is running for office. I have enough on my plate, and I don’t need relish on it!
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