Eat All the Bacon You Want, Pigs Will Make More
Relax, you bacon eater. Bacon isn't going anywhere and there's no aporkalypse in sight, mainly because the pigs we're getting it from aren't going extinct.
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Whenever you see something as snarkified and opportunistic as the Denny's web-culture driven styled Baconalia, let's not forget that at some office park somewhere, this is someone's job.
Relax, you bacon eater. Bacon isn't going anywhere and there's no aporkalypse in sight, mainly because the pigs we're getting it from aren't going extinct.
We can all agree Burger King's summer-special bacon sundae is passé, but it's worse than that: The cynicism of putting the thing on the chain's menu, especially years after the bacon-as-dessert trend's popularity peaked, is outright insulting.
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