{"id":1924,"date":"2011-09-30T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2011-09-30T14:37:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:37:31","slug":"manfaq-friday-of-men-and-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"ManFAQ Friday:  Of Men and Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, and that means answer time! For those of you who have commented with questions from previous ManFAQs, thank you. I&#8217;m adding yours to the list of questions women have asked about men over the years, and I will answer them all in turn &#8211; to continue to demystify the more malodorous gender for those of the gentler.\u00a0 Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <em>What is it with you guys and bacon? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ll confess I was going to write something with great righteous\u00a0indignation, along the lines of &#8220;Oh yeah? Well, what is it with you ladies and purses?&#8221;\u00a0 Then\u00a0I remembered&#8230; \u00a0the <a title=\"Bacon Weave\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;tbm=isch&amp;q=bacon+weave+roll&amp;revid=294738718&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=YqmFTr7zD8HE0AHIt_HQDw&amp;ved=0CDwQ1QIoAA&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=633\" target=\"_blank\">bacon weave<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I may have to go with righteous\u00a0indigestion on this one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We know from holy scripture that &#8220;There are no two finer words in the English language than &#8216;Encased Meats,&#8217; my friend.&#8221; (Hot Doug, Letters to the Chicagoans, $3.16.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And we know, because I&#8217;ve told you before, that pig is yummy &#8211; it&#8217;s a good reason to go to <a title=\"The Once and Future Huntsville\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1876\">Alabama<\/a>, for instance.\u00a0 So, yes, I have been known to stock up on bacon.\u00a0 And by stock up, I mean walking into a butcher shop and walking out with 40 pounds of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just meat!\u00a0 It&#8217;s thick, juicy meat, with nice smoky flavor, and it will take whatever you do to it &#8211; brown sugar, cayenne pepper, you name it.\u00a0 Bacon is life.\u00a0 So, men <strong>are<\/strong> pigs, men <strong>eat<\/strong> pigs, men <strong>love<\/strong> pigs\u00a0&#8211; it all makes sense.\u00a0\u00a0 You know, somewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Now you know. Please, feel free to comment! Also, forward any questions <strong>you&#8217;d<\/strong> like answered to BUMD &#8211; at &#8211; biguglymandoll.com!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with you guys and bacon?  Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}