“You’re salty and greasy and smoky as sin
But of all grub we love you the best.”from Bacon by ‘Badger’ Clark
I have added the poem Bacon by Badger Clark to the poetry section of the Library.
Charles “Badger” Clark, Jr., (1883-1957) wrote cowboy poetry through a forty-year career as America’s most successful cowboy poet. His poem “A Cowboy’s Prayer” is probably one of the best known Western poems of that genre; and Clark’s book of poetry, Sun and Saddle Leather (1915) is still in print today.
Also, Heather Lauer over at Bacon Unwrapped has a new book about bacon coming out this May from William Morrow Publishing. A hardcover (yea!) with 244 pages of fun, facts, recipes and resources about the best meat ever.
You can check it out and pre-order a copy like me at:
Bacon: A Love Story – A Salty Survey of Everybody’s Favorite Meat by Heather Lauer.
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Tater wrote him a poem about bacon. Hope you like it.
My Sleek and Shining Bacon
How I miss it, how I pine
Smell so luscious, taste divine
my sleek and shining bacon!
My wife, you see, with no holds barred
Has just declared a war on lard.
We’re not to buy, or eat or shit
A single piddling piece of it.
“How can we live?” I cry “Alack!”
“without the meat from piggies back?”
But she is firm in her blockade,
There will no cassoulet be made
Nor quiche Lorraine, nor ham and eggs
Not even porc pâté.
How I miss it, how I pine
Smell so luscious, taste divine
my sleek and shining bacon!