Update on the epic bacon from the tesla diner: this is what it actually looks like (cw meat)

Eating your Bazinga Bacon from the paper sleeve. Those online leftists who argued with you about gays in Baldur's Gate sure are mad about it. You chew and chew on the unevenly cooked bacon, which got cold because you took too much time taking the right photo to post online. You catch your reflection in the window, jaw bobbing as you chew the bacon fat. You've never seen someone look so cool.

Yeah, that's about how I expected it to look.

Elon is stuck in 2008 memeland. "Le epic bacon" like grow the goddamned fuck up already.

imagine being stuck as a teenage redditor circa 2008

wait, tesla opened a diner based on a D-tier meme that has been dead for a decade?

They opened a diner and included "epic bacon" as a menu item, yes.
A couple years ago I dated someone for a while, mid 30s, who was still carrying around "omg BACON" and closely related memes in her personal lexicon. It was strange. She seemed genuinely surprised when I said I didn't want bacon, in part because I don't like it that much but also because eating meat is often at best morally dubious.
Relationship didn't work out, but ended without animosity. But this reminded me of that- the "omg bacon!" thing was bland and unpleasant when it was new, but in the 2020s it's worse.

lol, instead of Burger King crowns Tesla Diner gives out

Who is this even for? Elon musk stans and that's it?

Pretty much. I don't eat meat but that looks revolting. Plus I'd rather shit in my hands and clap than ever give Elon Musk money and I think most of the global population feels the same.

THIS IS SO FKING EPIC!!!!!!!! BACON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! elon musk is such a funny guy LMAO and he's so cool i wish he would reply to my DMs on X formerly known as Twitter

lmao, of course. the kind of restaurant that can consistently deliver a menu item to the table that reaches the level of a promotional photo is a top tier establishment, but being this far off is more akin to like.... burger king. where the burger looks like it was made by your worst enemy and then sat on for 20 minutes by an assistant football coach from west texas.

Loony leftoids wouldn't understand the experience of waiting 8 hours in line for four strips of bacon that costs $20, typical, this is why you're all poor.

JT should sue

for stealing his logo

Why would you put bacon in such a container?

Question: Where is your god now?

Answer:

Lmao how many open bottles of Jack Daniels are in this photo? My dude is even dressed like one

Omg, 12 dollars for that

got em

I eat meat and I'm going to say it: Bacon is not food. All the hype around bacon back on the late 2000s internet was just a bunch of people circle-jerking and dog-whistling to each other about "look, we're so not-Muslim and not-Jewish which is great because we get to eat a food that isn't halal or kosher and it sucks for those people who are so oppressed by their religion that they don't get to eat the best food ever invented"

I finally tried bacon -- high quality gourmet bacon made by a friend who was a professional chef -- and that shit was so disgusting I couldn't even swallow a bite. It tastes bad, worse than pork normally tastes (which is pretty bad to begin with). It's nauseatingly greasy. The texture, if you're foolhardy enough to bite into it after licking it and getting that flavor, is revolting.

The bacon love is a complete psy-op. I refuse to believe anyone actually enjoys it. I find it more plausible to believe it's a vast conspiracy or a cultural meme that involves a bunch of people gaslighting themselves into thinking they like something disgusting. I'm usually all for cultural relativism and not yucking people's yums but I am going to take the most reactionary and intolerant stance here: Bacon is utterly disgusting. Veneration of bacon is the mark of a sick culture that desperately needs to be uplifted, and what I see from the "I love bacon it's the best thing ever you have to try it bro I swear bacon is love bacon is life" crowd directly contributes to my stance.

This post is only 10% hyperbolic backlash against an absurd meme.

Oh look, I google "bacon is a psyop" and here's what I get:

https://www.cracked.com/article_29348_the-bacon-craze-was-created-by-corporate-conspiracy.html

https://everything-pr.com/food-pr-bacon/

https://www.thetakeout.com/america-has-too-much-pork-sell-bacon-new-prepared-foods-1851248643/

I think bacon tastes good but it's just salty meat fat. I'm a disgusting garbage disposal of a human though i'll basically eat anything and enjoy it.
Bacon is the least bad that pork gets outside of being turned into a properly seasoned sausage, but it's something that should be contained within a sandwich with other more neutral flavors that themselves get seasoned by the salt and fat from the bacon.
Also all the bullshit hype about it was literally just a marketing psyop trying to drive consumption of an otherwise pretty niche cut of meat by turning it into some meme identity. Although it also probably found fertile ground because bacon, being already seasoned, is probably the most rich and flavorful dish a lot of suburbanites ate growing up since that bar is literally in hell - if their typical breakfast was like some shitty whitebread with butter and an unseasoned egg or a bowl of sugar kibble, then the salty and savory piece of probably half burnt meat on the plate was quite possibly the only flavor they were exposed to.
I remember reading an anthropology report about rural dalit women. They live very hard, discriminated lives, but they still took joy in mocking the higher caste supervisors and being able to eat delicious pork.