International Bacon Day: How did bacon become a breakfast staple? (Credit: iStock)
\n\nThink of a traditional American breakfast. Now think of an English one. Besides the eggs, what's the next most obvious thing you expect a defacto presence of? Of course, it's the bacon. If you're big on breakfast-maxxing, the mere mentioned of these fatty, cured strips of bliss will probably have your mouth watering. We're no different.
\n\nToday, September 5, happens to be International Bacon Day and potentially the best time to let you know a simple, mind-boggling fact. Bacon isn't something that all of America, and eventually other parts of the world simply gravitated to. The furore over necessarily including it for breakfast was part of a masterstroke marketing campaign. Clearly, it did its work for bacon is beyond a doubt a breakfast staple. But this kind of mass engineering of palettes and preferences – one that lasts generations and essentially remints the subject as an indelible part of 'culinary history' – is no mean feat, especially not one that can be achieved by someone who thinks straight. So of course it makes complete sense that the person behind this entire operation is quite literally Sigmund Freud's real-life…
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