Meatless Mondays. Quite possibly the two worst words ever combined in the English language.
The city of San Francisco has just become the first town to adopt a resolution to stop serving meat of any kind on Mondays. As stated on the official Meatless Monday web site: “The resolution to make Mondays meatless was introduced by supervisor Sophie Maxwell, who hopes that residents will use this opportunity to make nutritious, sustainable choices.”
“Our goal is to help reduce meat consumption 15% in order to improve personal health and the health of our planet.”
Good people…do you think your personal health would be improved by not eating bacon just because it’s Monday?
April 13th, 2010 at 8:36 am
An April Fools Joke no doubt
April 13th, 2010 at 11:52 am
Really!? I don’t even live there and im Upset!!! More Bacon, Less BS!!!
April 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
The government can’t get into our bedrooms without a big uproar, so now there going after our arteries, LOL.
April 13th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Can we give California back to Mexico?
April 14th, 2010 at 5:22 am
let people make their own decisions about eating meat on any day or not. don’t turn vegetarianism into a law. #fail i agree with c. hagen: can we give california back?
April 16th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Stupid Idea!
April 17th, 2010 at 11:29 am
how about we give them California back and give them New York as interest.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:02 am
Get the fuck over yourselves. It’s one goddamn day without bacon.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:38 am
It’s the point of having a choice to eat bacon or not. That is the point of our country! FREEDOM! San Fran sicko call fall into the ocean for all I care. We all have to have their lifestyles shoved down our throats, go live your life how you want and stay out of mine.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:06 pm
strange, because there is a bar in San Francisco that serves free bacon every monday. (Pop’s in the mission)
they also have a bacontini. mmmm.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:59 am
Fight the man Pop’s!
May 12th, 2010 at 10:57 am
This dovetails well with my new resolution to not go to San Fransisco again, especially on Mondays.
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:27 am
Hey! Don’t blame all of California for the weirdness that is San Francisco! The rest of the state (well, maybe with the exception of Hollyweird) is pretty normal. Lots of bacon is produced and consumed in the state. I agree with Mojo Yugen though – I’m boycotting San Francisco just for being full of and run by lunatics. If you really want to piss off the loonies in San Fran (besides calling it San Fran) buy some bacon from Arizona!
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:42 am
I just visited the BUY-cott Arizona website
(http://www.buycottarizona.com/BUYcott_Support.html) and found out that Bar-S Foods Co., maker of fine hickory and apple smoked bacon, is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ so I’m planning on getting my wife to only buy Bar-S while the kerfuffle is going on as a kind of “in your face, San Fran!”
June 7th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
“no, they can’t take my bacon away, no no! they can’t take my bacon away!”
June 16th, 2010 at 9:25 am
they can have my bacon when they pry it from my cold, dead hand. The other hand holds the evil black rifle that these bacon haters fear most. I’m double-trouble!
For anyone who has a hard time understanding San Fran politics, look into the history of the “leaders” coming out of there in the early and mid 70′s.
Almost all of the big power players, “moonbeam” Brown, Babs Boxer, Harvey Milk and others, were big supporters of-and supported by (financially and thru forced members intimidation and “canvassing”)Jim Jones.
Yes, *that* Jim Jones. He was even given a Supervisor’s chair in thanks, as well as having SF politicos run interference for him to keep abuse in Jonestown from being investigated.
I see a trend-just like a history of abusing animals can show homicidal tendencies, so a hatred of bacon shows deep-seated “wrongness”.
We had biscuit bombers in WWII. Maybe it’s time for bacon bombers.
June 16th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Sorry San Fran… FAIL!
I love this city and will visit whenever possible… hopefully it’ll be on a Monday and I WILL be eating bacon somehow!
June 17th, 2010 at 10:47 am
On the bright side, TUESDAY IS CATCHUP DAY!
June 17th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Tuffy from Pop’s here. I’ve been emailed about this a hundred times today. No need to fear – free bacon Monday’s will continue at Pop’s.
June 22nd, 2010 at 1:57 pm
a day without bacon is a sad day indeed. i’m already deprived of my favorite chick-fil-a nuggets and waffle fries every sunday, no bacon (or meat) on monday makes that worse. i am getting so very tired of the government telling me when what how where i can do trivial things (like eat red meat, or slowly kill myself with cigarettes)
the number one cause of death on the planet?…BEING BORN. life has a 100% mortality rate. might as well live it up while you can.
June 25th, 2010 at 8:15 am
I was a vegetarian for over ten years until I developed chronic kidney stones. For several years, while my doctors tried to figure out what was wrong, I did every thing I could to “eat healthy” — and the healthier I ate, the sicker I got. It turns out, the cause of the stones was my high-oxalate vegetarian diet. The cure? Meat and potatoes for a year to “flush out” the system and only then a return to judicious amounts of vegetables.
This just goes to show that one size fits no one.
June 25th, 2010 at 8:16 am
And, yes, a day without bacon is like a duck without water!
June 25th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Yeah right. Just try telling San Francisco they can’t put meat in their mouth!
June 30th, 2010 at 4:04 am
They’re fond of demonstrations there… they probably just ran out of reasons for more protests in the street and are hoping the baconites band together in solidarity and march into Berkeley.
July 15th, 2010 at 8:31 am
CALLING ALL BACON-LOVING SAN FRANCISCANS:
Ride the Bacon Freedom Train to the North! We loves our bacon north of the 49th. Almost as much as we love our beavers.
July 26th, 2010 at 9:39 am
guess i wont be visiting san fran any time soon, here in wisconsin, i can eat bacon for every meal, every day!!! and it goes great with beer and cheese