The Week in Meat (Memorial Day Weekend)

For our overseas readership (a confusing phrase, when one is a transplanted American), this was an incredibly important weekend. 

Although most sensible god-fearing, mammal-devouring folk aren't afraid to flame their meat year round, Memorial Day is the traditional starting pistol for the rest of the population.

A few notable bits and bobs:

Bacon: A Love Story is in stores  (including Amazon). Why haven't you bought it yet?

The Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour, as recommended by Heather 'See Above' Lauer, has hit the road - with the first stop in Phoenix (where they can fry bacon on the sidewalk in June). Further destinations will include prominent cities like Chicago and Minneapolis as well as dens of iniquity like Vegas and DC.

The cute people at Cakewrecks have a post on meat-themed cakes. I particularly like the one that just looks like a huge hunk of raw meat. Unsubtle. Tasty.

PETA has started an anti-meat campaign (well, a single billboard) claiming that serving meat to children is 'cruelty'. Clearly, they're not eating in the right places. (Incidentally, did anyone else read the 1 minute interview with some PETA guy in the Metro last week in which he came across sounding like a normal human being? I can't find it online, because the Metro site is painful to search. Maybe I imagined the whole thing...)