{"id":4334,"date":"2013-06-20T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2013-06-20T18:26:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T22:26:22","slug":"beware-its-a-googlenado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2013\/06\/20\/beware-its-a-googlenado\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware, it’s a Googlenado!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just add nuggets of ground beef for a “Loose Meat Mary.”<\/p><\/div>\n

I should apologize in advance for this post, and recommend that vegetarians and children of tender age should avert their eyes. But as I was eating my lunch of leftover chicken satay takeout and pondering my meat on a stick treat, I wondered aloud whether its inventor had gotten rich off it. Bill thought that patents weren’t around then, so probably not. I ventured the idea that bacon on a stick might be a million-dollar concept, which prompted Bill to Google “bacon on a stick<\/a>“–that being the 21st-century version of a patent search.<\/p>\n

Some searches just lead to what you are looking for, and some lead you on and on until your head is swimming. I call it a Googlenado. Bacon on a stick is already a prominent feature of the snack-meat universe, it seems. Pictures and recipes abound. But that led inexorably to chocolate-covered bacon on a stick<\/a>. The people in the photos are smiling (and snarfing down). This in turn lead to other corners of extreme bacon cuisine. There is the inventor of the\u00a0 Loose Meat Mary<\/a>–the conventional Bloody Mary ingredients augmented by a bacon strip and garnished with little nuggets of ground beef. And for a regional note, there is bacon poutine<\/a>, for those who think French fries with gravy and cheese curd\u00a0 has been crying out for the additional company of their crisp smokey obsession.<\/p>\n

I am of the opinion that there are very few recipes that couldn’t be improved by the addition of a little bacon, but there are some folks who just cross the line. Bacon-flavored gumballs<\/a> comes to mind, and mind you, I chew gum that contains nicotine. And bacon air freshener<\/a>?–I already have a frying pan. And bacon-flavored dental floss<\/a> would not encourage me to floss, although nothing else does, either. And even I must say that a bacon cheeseburger should never be served on a donut instead of a bun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But enough about bacon, at least until I get hungry again. Where are some of the weird corners of the Google-verse your innocent search terms have taken you? And before you ask, no, not those<\/em> corners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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