What pig still eats bacon?
Photo by Mandy Jouan
Salon.com’ s Sarah Hepola has posted a lovely, decadent ode to that crack of the meat world - bacon .
It is a fabulous food forum worthy of Penthouse….I’ve heard.
Anyway….to cut the fat…
In this ultra healthy world in which we live - where calories, cholesterol, sugar, sodium are calculated more than a Hillary Clinton response - bacon should be this massive no-no.
Fact is, cooks, cook books, movies and cartoons have banged the celebratory gong for this greasy goddess according to Hepola.
What’s being communicated here? Are the health police losing their grip on your insides?
Ads are out there bragging that one “energy” drink is better than another because of less calories and sugar content. Clearly we’ve gotten so health aware in this country that even the legal speed we ingest has to live up to a healthy standard? Only in America.
But, a look at the mid sections of the mid-West clearly shows that we say we are out to be fit and healthy with the same mouths that get filled with Quarter Pounders and…bacon.
Is being “healthy” becoming like the tarnished halo of claiming to be “green?” Is all the enviro hoopla out for the same fatty fate?
“Yes, I do shut off the lights in my vacant rooms and buy energy efficient bulbs when I drive to the Home Depot to get them in my Hummer!”
Is the public getting tired of - or more accurately jaded by - being mothered by what has replaced the “Religious Right ?”
The “But It’s What’s” Right.
I’m not trying to minimize the long-felt apathy toward our environment and the horrid effects into the cheesy camp of false health-hood.
I mean, I’m as happy and, gosh darn it, relieved that Valerie One Day At A Van Halen can fit into jeans. Thank GOD for you Jenny Craig, you defender of justice!
I’m saying there’s got to be a better way to communicate with the masses to make the important stuff out of fad status and into everyday practice.
Now, for me, my father’s techniques worked fine as a lad: “Do this or I will take you out of this world much easier than when I brought you in it.”
But, I don’t think our Dr. Phil nation can fully, as Jack said in A Few Good Men, “Handle the truth.”
Maybe it comes down to one of the simplest of stand-bys:
Everything in Moderation.
That includes with messaging on products and when dealing with the public’s tolerance for issues.
Inform me. Don’t lecture me.
Teach me. Don’t force me.
Communicate with me. Don’t dictate to me.
Show me how. Don’t just say “you should do it now.”
In the meantime?
Pass that triple bacon double Swiss cheese burger here in the Styrofoam container, while I figure out whether I believe you.
Tags: bacon, commonsense, Communications, decadence
July 25th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
A marvelously written post, and a resonating message: treat us like adults and maybe, just maybe, we’ll act like them.
And we’re all susceptible to bacon’s tickling of our nostrils. . . even the vegetarians among us fall victim. It’s a special kind of pork. That’s for damn sure.