Banned in Winooski
VT: Diner takes down bacon advertisement after muslim complains.
The mayor of the town, Winooski, Vt., commended the diner for taking down the sign. “The cool part of living in a diverse community is that it’s not always comfortable,” Mayor Katherine “Deac” Decarreau told the television network.
What Mayor “Deac” means, apparently, is that anything that makes muslims and other politically favored minorities uncomfortable must be eliminated, and the resulting discomfort of male white Christians celebrated.
Winooski, a self-described “art-mecca” is a no-go zone for this blogger. Except, perhaps, to scatter bacon sandwiches on the streets during a midnight run.
For What It's Worth 
This post offends me, please take it down.
Anon…I’ve tried the Hormel pre-cooked bacon, but vastly prefer the microwaveable “Oscar Mayer THICK CUT Fully Cooked Bacon.” “THICK CUT” is superior to their “regular” thickness SKU for BLT’s (and just about any other bacon-centric creation) at times when cooking “real” bacon isn’t convenient. Our local Stop ‘n Shop carries Thick Cut, while my preferred grocery outlet, the A&P directly across the street from S ‘n S, does not. Definitely worth the extra stop to get the gold standard in pre-cooked bacon.
Intended for Anon at 4:16 further down in this thread.
Thanks Cobra: never seen the OM thick cut in the stores. seen the regular OM. I’ll have to search it out and give it a try. Are they in packets of four like the Hormel?
Anon at 5:25…each box contains 9 to11 slices. I routinely use four slices per sandwich, but some might find that overkill…three would suffice for most BLT aficionados,
Four slices here too, two on each piece of bread. Who in their right mind uses an uneven number of bacon slices??
The next serious question: mayo or Miracle Whip?
Hellman’s mayonnaise…the high octane spread, not the dreaded low-fat dreck. I only consume BLTs during summer, for nearly every lunch, when my home-grown tomatoes are ripe. The red mystery spheres sold during the off-season just don’t cut it.
Uh oh. Here’s where we differ. Only Miracle Whip for us. Lots of it. I do agree though that no good American uses low-fat mayo. Blech.
Anon at 7:00…While the OM thick cut bacon is also microwaveable, it is labeled as “Fully Cooked,” so bacon junkies may gobble a few slices straight from the box when a munchies attack occurs with no concern of a potential trichinosis condition.
Mmmmmmm! Baaaaacon!
(I do wish bacon could be kosher. sigh.)
There’s a (Mennonite? Dutch Reform?) community church tent at an annual festival we like to visit. Everything smells so good!
PS, there are five a’s in baaaaacon, just as there are in raaaaacist. : ]
Hey dooood. No complaining! After all, you did opt-out of bacon eating for the rest of your life.
Ann Barnhardt’s recipe for Bacon ‘n Whor’an!
Cobra and anon: I’ve never tried the fully-cooked kind, myself. I usually stick to OM center cut, nuked for 3+ minutes. One of the few benefits of working from home – I’d never do that in an office. Unless… I find myself working with “Deac” in the future. Then it’s war: I think I might discover that I’m a part of a pork-worshiping sect of fundamentalist _____s. One which requires a ritual sacrifice of packaged meat in the office microwave.
Yos: you have my sincere sympathies, dude.
Cobra and Housecat: Note- The Hormel brand I buy for the microwave is NOT PRE-COOKED. It is Ready To Cook. Four slices in a neat packet, just put the packet in the nuker, and bingo.
http://m.target.com/p/hormel-original-microwave-ready-bacon-slices-12-oz/-/A-13198306
Therein lies the problem with this country. You can’t please everybody. If someone is offended by a “yield to bacon” sign, guess what, it’s THEIR issue. It’s a fing JOKE, people!!
Yeah – I don’t get it, either. Since when does it f-ing matter if someone else eats bacon? Who cares? And, how, exactly, is a bacon sign “offensive”? Is there a cartoon Muhammad chowing down on it? No. Wtf?
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10432537_339295876222188_7968730679001256443_n.jpg?oh=66f8abd9d7fcb91581f0786fdc91881f&oe=547916E5&__gda__=1416651628_09e593bda156f2de6fb153a99df96ce5
Laughed out loud – over my bacon, tomato and cheese sandwich!
Bacon tomato and cheese? Bacon and anything is good, I get that, bacon and bread, awesome, bacon and tomato, mmmmm, but with cheese? Cheddar? Grilled so cheese melts?
Anon: yes, grilled just long enough to melt the cheese (cheddar). I ran out of lettuce for a BLT, so I improvised. The world’s healthiest, most vegan-friendly lunch. Oh wait…
Housecat, Serious question of the day: do you use microwave bacon? I do, Hormel, four strips in a packet. Only good nuke brand out there. 2min20seconds for crispy. I hate to mess up stovetop for a quick sandwich at lunchtime.
isn’t bacon a Constitutional right?
the hajjis don’t like dogs neither. send the c*nt a BLT and a puppy.
a re-play of this might be allowed?
I am offended by signs of “progressive” lefties who, bit by bit, are destroying our country. Please, take them down.
And preserve the bacon! Priorities, people!
What’s next? Hindus and beef, lactose intolerant and milk, JAPS and tube steak…
What’s next?
Muslims are not supposed to drink liquor, right? Perhaps this helpful and sensitive woman could suggest limiting the offerings at this store as well.
http://www.beveragewarehousevt.com
Sadly Vermont is a perfect example for the old saying ” all it takes for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing”.
Native Vermonters by nature are liberal in the true sense of the word, not progressive. Their attitude was I’ll leave you be and you leave me alone.
That freedom naturally attracted out of state progressives, who of course and true to form proceeded to implement their brand of “liberal”.
So now 80 percent of the Vermont legislature is comprised of transplanted liberals moving into the state to change it .
Sad but true
why wouldn’t the Vermont attitude you outlined bring conservatives or libertarians? I’ll leave you be is NOT the mantra of liberals.
If you read what I said again, you might find that that was excactly my point.
Vermonters elected Socialist libtard Bernie Sanders as Senator. Enough said.
Again, you are talking about people who moved to VT.
Unfortunately real Vermonters don’t go to the polls but only to their local townhall meetings where local issues are voted on.
Boyohboy, have you nailed it!
Bingo! Happy you put Winooski on your no go list! Typical behavior from a Burlington neighborhood! Rampant socialism! Wait until this Muzzie chick has her kids behead the mayor!?!?
They’ll blame the knife and that society misunderstood the poor lad.
http://nypost.com/2014/08/26/isis-using-surveillance-drones-to-target-syrian-military/
bacon may not be for everyone:
Saw that video on White House Dossier and Weasel Zipper blogs. The comments on both sites are priceless. Michelle, The First Princess. Even fat Bill Clinton ran and was convivial.
Bacon is good. Michelle is not.
who knew ‘vacation’ was so stressful?
Look at how she’s covering her face like some movie star celeb. Or is she practicing for her perp walk?
They’re not all crazy non-bacon eaters up there. Had some spectacular dining a few weeks ago at he new http://henofthewood.com/ in Burlington. Give it a shot, world class chow and the pork belly was, as they say, “to die for.” Oink, oink.
Hen of the Wood is the coolest website I’ve ever seen. Great photos, especially the guy on a bike with a gun over his shoulder and a dead deer on the back. Winner winner. Love it.
Or, more to the point, is http://www.prohibitionpig.com/ in nearby Waterbury.
Similar to those pink smiley faces you see tacked up on poles & trees around town; someone should make little pink woodcut pigs & start tacking them up all around Winooski.
or make ’em look official. who could argue about animal safety?
http://www.roadtrafficsigns.com/farm-animals-with-pig-symbol-caution-sign/sku-k-0176
They’re only slightly better than the red Blair Witch Project telephone pole accessoires.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/26/us-usa-shooting-arizona-idUSKBN0GQ23820140826
darwin award winner or legitimate accident? i’m a gun rights person, grew up with guns in the house and started with rifles rather young. i have little understanding for those thinking someone under the age of 16 needs to experience something more than a basic firearm. now he’s dead and she is scared.
Darwin Award – hand a fully automatic Uzi to a nine-year-old?
this story is front and center for every liberal media talking head – the “how could they”, the “isn’t this really stupid”, you name the headline, they’ve thought it up. Only Fox interviewed an employee of the range who said their men are trained to keep one arm on the back of the shooter so if the gun rears, the trainer can move the gun away. I wonder if this story would have made headlines had the shooter been 45? or 18? The age does seem young even to me, but she had parents permission, there had been no previous accidents at the range, there was no reason to believe this would go wrong either.
i dont care how safety conscience a firing range maybe, a nine year old with anything other than a basic rifle or shotgun is a formula for misfortune. this is obvious.
always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction… or not
As many of the gun people have commented this was deeply unfortunate example of poor training procedure by the trainer who should have known better. Lots of kids that age can & have safely be taught to fire full automatic weapons.
Even teaching the adults the technique should have been “work up to it” with magazines that are progressively filled with more and more rounds so the user learns to both control the recoil and to fire in short bursts. ( Believe it or not, firing a full magazine in one go is neither usually recommended nor generally considered very useful, even in full size machine-guns (Ok, if you have a human wave attack, you might mash your 70lb water cooled Vickers/Maxim to “oh my god” & hope the loader can keep enough belts hooked together, but that’s not terribly common), much less machine pistols and sub-machine guns and assault rifles. First the recoil usually makes your aim horribly bad, secondly the air cooled guns over-heat *really* fast at 600 to 1200 rpm. Third, ammo is pricey.)
I see elevated risk with zero upside. A child trained to use anything but a basic rifle is just something adults irrationally try to justify. There is nothing gained from this experience. Adults can have guns, kids can wait.
The shooting range, called Bullets and Burgers, coulda used one of Fountain’s robots, eh?
No bacon high taxes….
http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Connecticut-is-not-tax-friendly-5713916.php
Time to inject some humor. It’s Laugh Wednesday.
After the VMA drool fest over Queen Béy, aka Feminist, (as if) and the H8 over The Pedestal Affair gorgeous and funny Sofia Vergara did at the Emmy’s, this old hysterical SNL skit surfaced again today about Bey. Beyoncé is waaaaaaaaay overrated. She shakes her thang but talented singer? I report. You decide.
Taxi driver stabbed to death off Den Rd exit of the Merritt…
http://connecticut.news12.com/news/taxi-driver-found-murdered-on-doolittle-road-in-stamford-1.9162278
She’s a total fraud!