A Genuine New Juxtaposition
Mar. 30th, 2015 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerI was looking through a food supplement in my newspaper when I happened on a big ad featuring four names for food I can say with truth I'd never seen strung together before: maple bacon onion jam.
My first reaction was at once amused and convinced the jam wasn't for me, but on thinking it over, I did get to reflecting on how my own cooking is so plain and limited that I really couldn't make too big a deal of anything anyone else eats. "Jam," too, doesn't just have to be spread on toasted bread and eaten at breakfast. Perhaps, though, it was the "bacon" that really got to me. While I'm not opposed to that foodstuff on general principle, sometimes it does seem the contemporary interest in it is more of a self-amused obsession, an obscure statement exaggerated to the point of being overdone.
My first reaction was at once amused and convinced the jam wasn't for me, but on thinking it over, I did get to reflecting on how my own cooking is so plain and limited that I really couldn't make too big a deal of anything anyone else eats. "Jam," too, doesn't just have to be spread on toasted bread and eaten at breakfast. Perhaps, though, it was the "bacon" that really got to me. While I'm not opposed to that foodstuff on general principle, sometimes it does seem the contemporary interest in it is more of a self-amused obsession, an obscure statement exaggerated to the point of being overdone.