Makin' Bacon

You've got to watch this video for the music if nothing else:

HT/ He Who No Longer Eats Bacon

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I'm hungry.

Mention of bacon, besides making me hungry, always reminds me that
the old adage "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was authored by a bacon salesman.

A slogan repeated by generations of mothers to their children - a Madison avenue copy writer's wet dream.