Are You Ready For Bacon as a New Currency?

by Heisenberg Posted 2012/09/12 19:00:00

Related Topics: Bacon, Weird News, Food, Oscar Meyer

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	Yes	174 votes	45%
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MEDIADECODER.BLOGS.NYTIMES.COM reports:
To promote its new Butcher Thick Cut bacon, an actor will be given 3,000 pounds of the bacon to barter for food, fuel and a place to spend the night. He starts in New York, and is expected to make it to Los Angeles.

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Tom R 007 2012/09/12 06:56:14

Yes

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Megurine Luka 2012/09/12 23:06:31

No

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No. No, not at all. I don't want to keep 'bacon' in my pocket as 'money.' That's weird. I don't really want to touch other people's bacon. (That sounds kinda weird...) It just doesn't make sense. It's pretty dumb! I'd much rather have coins and dollars. Besides, wouldn't it start to stink?

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Steveth... to Megurin... 2012/09/13 09:23:27

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Not if it was canned. Why would you want shrinking dollars? Another countries silver coins would work.

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Kozmo to Megurin... 2012/09/15 23:52:50

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The curing & salt is what preserves it longer than fresh pork, same goes for ham too.

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TheBadOne 2012/09/12 23:06:28 (edited)

Yes

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... and I am starting a pig farm!

Note: If that happens, it'll be the farmers giving out aid to everyone. Oh irony!

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Jiorgia 2012/09/12 22:45:36

No

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no never, our finances should not be perishable.

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Gia 2012/09/12 22:44:21

No

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Don't think so but would be better tasting!

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BabyBear 2012/09/12 22:40:48

Yes

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Why not. It's called bartering. I would be willing to trade a nice dinner for some good quality bacon.

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Jiorgia to BabyBear 2012/09/12 22:48:12

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Currency: money, legal tender
Bartering: exchange (goods or services) without using money.

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Frank 2012/09/12 22:05:01

Yes

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I'll take a few hundred pounds, if it's alright with Michelle Obama............

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Different 2012/09/12 21:51:15

No

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I would eat all my money....

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yabbadabbadoo 2012/09/12 21:41:17

No

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we might be using bacon as currency the way things are going in this country

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Osk The Great Guru 2012/09/12 21:39:20

Yes

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As long as the hosts enjoy bacon and are not Veggies or something

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Kozmo to Osk The... 2012/09/15 23:54:15

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Beware, parasites need hosts too.

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Kigan 2012/09/12 21:38:09

No

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I'm ready for this absurd, overwhelming obsession with bacon to end!

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Kozmo to Kigan 2012/09/15 23:55:10

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Aren't 'Bacon Ends' available for a discount at a butcher's?

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Lacey 2012/09/12 21:22:57
relic 2012/09/12 21:22:10

Yes

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Let's start paying for mid-east oil with Bacon.

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Kozmo to relic 2012/09/15 23:58:21 (edited)

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Why not turn lard into Biodiesel?
The Arabs will turn round and sell it (value-added) to the Chinese.
Process it here & then ship it.
Cut out the Meddling Middle Men (better than using Minutemen).

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GOMEZ 2012/09/12 21:17:44
N. Zane 2012/09/12 21:15:43

No

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I would eat all my money

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mwf122090 2012/09/12 21:12:38

No

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I would be oh so poor and have really high cholesterol and blood pressure.

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relic to mwf122090 2012/09/12 21:23:54

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Think how good it's gonna taste while slowly killing yourself though.

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gregaj7 2012/09/12 21:07:28

Yes

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Anything could be used as 'currency".

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Dan 2012/09/12 21:00:40

No

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I would eat all of my money!

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frozenKmadness 2012/09/12 21:00:38

No

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You mean I have to touch meat with my bare hands? No way!

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Kozmo to frozenK... 2012/09/16 00:01:26

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Technically, that's what you're doing when you touch any person, including yourself,
just has a rind of keratin (protein, uses same amino acids as muscle).

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frozenK... to Kozmo 2012/09/25 19:55:05

That's totally different and you know it.

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ellomotto 2012/09/12 20:41:30

No

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I don't eat pork, but it's a nice idea

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jasmyn.canfield 2012/09/12 20:32:43

Yes

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Hahaha. Who DOESNT love bacon!?

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Osk The... to jasmyn.... 2012/09/12 21:40:18

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Many people don't

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Bob DiN to Osk The... 2012/09/15 13:10:44

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Good more for me.

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unicorns vs narwhals 2012/09/12 20:27:20

Yes

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I could see people using the barter system more often considering the economy. You could do that with anything though, not just bacon.

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Lerro DeHazel 2012/09/12 20:07:11

Yes

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Actually, who in his household, actually brings home the Bacon? . . . .

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RoyDMercer - IFOTFD 2012/09/12 20:01:21

Yes

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bring it on. My milkshake ain't never brought anything to my yard, but if I am frying bacon with the windows open, it's like Main Street at my house.

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Kozmo to RoyDMer... 2012/09/16 00:02:45

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Beware when it becomes a "Run to the Banks" as happened in 1929.

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Fran-Halen 2012/09/12 16:52:07

Yes

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BACON IS GODLIKE !

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Kozmo to Fran-Halen 2012/09/16 00:03:50

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Acts of the Apostles Ch. 10 said all food is allowed while doing God's Work.

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mikeeonly 2012/09/12 12:56:01

No

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stupid concept

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Kozmo to mikeeonly 2012/09/16 00:04:34

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Many "Half-Baked Ideas" later became Bonanzas.

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auron 2012/09/12 11:09:47

Yes

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System-d is right around the corner baby.

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