Bacon Mania Fallout

When the Salon article Bacon Mania came out, my eyebrows went up when I saw what it said about me.

...Miss Cellania, wrote about the online bacon bonanza in a post for Mental Floss last summer. She dates the burgeoning phenomenon back to September 2006, when blogger John Scalzi momentarily captivated the blogosphere by taping bacon to his cat.

Now that's not exactly what I said. I'm sure there are earlier incidences of internet bacon. What I said was:

I first noticed bacon as a shared motif when John Scalzi taped bacon to his cat.

But I didn't want to kvetch about it, ya know, publicity is publicity. But it was noticed. John Scalzi posted a response entitled Apparently This is All My Fault.

It’s a burden I will carry for the rest of my life. Fortunately, a tasty, tasty burden.

Then today Fark picked up his post.

Apparently, the current internets Bacon meme is the fault of one man. One wonderful, beautiful, talented, perceptive and tasteful man

So I guess no real harm was done. At least I hope not.

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I remember back in 2006 when I contributed to LinkFilter as Ginmonkey that bacon was a big meme. They recently had a bacon day on LF but I guess it goes back further. Bacon is just so goooood!