{"id":777,"date":"2023-03-03T19:31:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2023-03-03T19:31:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:31:49","slug":"wheres-the-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the Bacon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I ordered the \u201cBig Beef Bacon Cheese Melt\u201d from the menu at a local caf\u00e9, I assumed I was in for a big juicy burger topped with cheese and crispy bacon. Was I ever wrong. There wasn\u2019t a burger at all\u2014just thin strips of beef along with the cheese and tomato. Beef bacon. Whoever heard of such?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I admit the abomination called turkey bacon has been around a good while. But everyone knows it\u2019s not legitimate bacon. Bacon comes from a pig, folks. And when properly cooked, it\u2019s thin, crispy, and oh so yummy. That turkey stuff should just be called turkey strips because that\u2019s really all it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But beef bacon? It was tough, hard to bite through, and had random strings of fat that weren\u2019t crispy at all. Never in a million years could it be called bacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can be sure I\u2019ll be reading menus more carefully in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I ordered the \u201cBig Beef Bacon Cheese Melt\u201d from the menu at a local caf\u00e9, I assumed I was in for a big juicy burger topped with cheese and crispy bacon. Was I ever wrong. There wasn\u2019t a burger at all\u2014just thin strips of beef along with the cheese and tomato. Beef bacon. Whoever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}