National Bacon Day

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Food is always a great and fun topic on myLot. Many of you are always discussing your daily meals and commenting on the meals of others. One of the things I routinely talk about when it comes to food is bacon. I just cannot stress enough how much I love bacon, and how much of my life is centered around bacon. Ask fellow myLotter Jim (@porwest), and he'll tell you of the many times I have raved about my favorite pork product. International Bacon Day is coming up on Saturday, August 31st. So, of course, I will be celebrating at home that morning, but I also didn't want to miss out at work either. The company I work for is preparing for annual store inventory next week, so it will be a pretty busy and labor intensive week for us. In preparation, yesterday (Friday) I was able to convince our store manager to purchase bacon to cook for all the employees (about 225 of us). Needless to say, LOTS of bacon! I am the manager in our Receiving Department in the back of the store, so it always falls on us to do any cooking for the store associates. Which we do not mind at all, because we are always cooking for ourselves. You should see our assortment of grilling equipment, including gas grills, pellet grills, smokers, griddles and deep fryers, just to name a few. We keep everything in the back of the store and use it all on a frequent basis (what can I say, we like to eat!). Anyway, I digress. We fired up the griddle yesterday morning and cooked bacon for everyone. The aroma of bacon filled the entire store, and all of our customers walking into the store were commenting on how good it smelled inside our store. And boy did we cook a lot of bacon, probably too much. Every store associate who eats bacon was able to get their fill. The photo above shows what was still left at 4:00pm when I left work for the day. Are you a fan of bacon as much as I am? Will you celebrate International Bacon Day on Saturday, August 31st? For those of you whose culture/religion forbids the eating of pork products, do you ever eat turkey bacon or other non-pork bacon products? Hmm...all this talk of bacon is making me hungry!