Raw Food Bacon Equivalent?
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Ahh. The fresh clean taste of bacon?
I’ve been noticing a trend over the past five years. What trend do I speak of?
All Things Bacon.
I think it started when I heard a few people talking about their love; no, their passion for bacon. Soon after I noticed the bacon chatter, I saw bacon band-aids on a novelty website. No, not actual strips of meat wrapped on a wound for healing, but a plastic band-aid with a printed image of bacon on it.
The number of bacon-themed product choices have increased. There are people out there who love bacon. They love bacon so much they want to marry it. They want to stand up for bacon. There is an entire niche market out there for bacon.
I used to smile at this trend. After all, my food choices probably seem strange to other people. It reminded me of what it must look like to an outsider of raw food looking into my world. Someone on the street looking at me drinking something that looks like sandy green sludge out in the sunshine at a local park, where I am sitting there savoring every drop of delicious green goodness.
But as time has passed I am starting to think that there is something about this bacon trend that is larger than I thought.
I have realized that bacon is more than just a gag gift or joke. No, it is much bigger. Bacon has become the symbol of meat. Bacon is the symbol of meat eaters. It is salty, greasy, fatty, and made of meat. It is the antithesis of all things healthy, and bacon lovers know it. And they like it that way.
These neo-bacon lovers are declaring their love of bacon by purchasing these random bacon themed products, including bacon lollipops, bacon vodka, and now, bacon floss. You can now floss your teeth and taste the taste of bacon.
The novelty website Archie McPhee has an entire category of products related to meat and bacon. Bacon floss is not an isolated incident. There are lots of products out there. I think sometimes I live in the raw food reality distortion field so much that I do not realize that there is an entire other world out there of people who are obsessed with meat. Bacon floss was my wake up call.
Now, I know the readers of this blog would probably not be flossing your teeth with bacon floss…but it got me thinking: what is the raw equivalent to bacon?
What is our symbol?
What one raw food compares to bacon?
What if we started to show raw food with one symbol of food? What if we had raw food band aids, what if all of us wore raw food t-shirts? What if we all had a secret raw food handshake?
If meat eaters have bacon, what do raw foodists have?
Durian? Nah. Too exotic.
Apple? Nah. Too simple.
Cacao? Nah. Too much controversy.
Or maybe I am wrong, and it should be one of these foods.
So tell me, what do you think is the raw food equivalent of bacon?
We as a raw community should to figure this out, so that we can have our own food to rally over. I believe, however, that all of us have such personal food choices that it would be nearly impossible for there to be one raw food that we can all agree upon. All the choices out there would be too sweet, too high in minerals, should not be a superfood, should be a superfood, should be found in the wild, should be found in a grocery store…and on and on.
But I am asking: can we decide on one food as a symbol of raw food? And if it was one food, what would it be?
~ Heidi
P.S. If it was my choice, I’d choose….no. I’ll wait. I want to see what you have in mind first.
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