Breadboard Bacon – Acceptably Addictive
I was enjoying my Lemon Poppyseed pancakes at the Breadboard the other day – so yummy – and I overheard one of the strangest conversations I had ever heard. You see, the Breadboard has this amazing, thick-cut bacon. It’s not just bacon – it is something special and really quite addictive. For sure, I am not the only one who thinks so. So, I’m sitting there and these two guys are eating eggs and homefries and side after side of bacon and then this one guy says he just got back from China and on the Yangtze River near Lijiang there lives this Chinese minority people called the Moso and they are known for their “Boneless Pig”. They slaughter a big pig, debone it and salt it. Then they use the pig as a “mattress” for up to a dozen years – really – and then they eat it. This is really true. The Breadboard has free wi-fi and I googled it and everyone at our table was kind of horrified. But both guys were SO enthusiastic about this… To them, it was like a dream come true, a fantasy. One of the guys was saying he wanted to move to a little hill town near Lijiang and sleep on a boneless pig, and he keeps munching bite after bite of bacon… I’m not sure what was weirder to me, the Moso custom or their reaction. I mean, bacon is good – the “gateway meat” and all that – and the Breadboard bacon is almost mystical in its power of goodness but things were just too strange and for the first time, I opted for a fresh fruit cup instead of a side of bacon. I’m not saying I’m not still addicted to Breadboard bacon. But just on that day, at this particular time, I thought someone needed to show just a little restraint. Well, I did get a side of sausage patties, but they are peppery and delicious and one can only show so much restraint…