Making Cardboard Bacon

This is my mom, and she's pretty spry for 78. She and my Dad (83) are retired and living in Mississippi. She's active in politics as well as Daughters of the Confederacy, and founded our family's chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution. They enjoy traveling to various functions and re-enactments ... she says this and church are two of the few ways left to pry my Dad from his easy chair.

But I digress. Years ago Mom decided to stop eating beef and pork, though she still eats fish and poultry. For years, breakfast did not include any real breakfast meats. Not too long ago, she discovered this food substitute called "turkey bacon". I don't know what's in it, but now I get it for breakfast every time I'm home for a family visit. I told her it reminds me of some homogenous solid like cardboard, but with flavoring and some color stripes painted on. I thought I'd immortalize her "cardboard bacon" preparation process. She got a kick out of this.

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• Turkey
• Cardboard
• Bacon
• Mississippi
• Daughters
• American
• Revolution
• Confederacy
• Batesville
• Oxford
• Panola

[coydiddy]

Your mom is awesome. I like the little Confederate flag in the plant pot. I have some family in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

[FunkyChateau]

Hey, interesting page you have. Where are you from? Are you aware of the current movement to eliminate "Colonel Rebel" completely from Ole Miss?

best regards,

Marty

[coydiddy]

@FunkyChateau Hey thanks for checking it out. I am from Oklahoma. I have lived in Georgia but my family comes mostly from Alabama. I am aware of the movement to eliminate the Colonel and let me tell ya nothing surprises me anymore. They can't even fly the Confederate flag at Ole Miss when Ole Miss had its own regiment in the CSA and everything. It's part of Ole Miss history but yet the only thing people care about is what is currently politically correct. I don't know where they draw the line.

[tosheatower]

Hmm a cooking video involving a microwave. Yeah I don't think this will become a best seller.