I think every day after January 17th is Ditch your New Year’s Resolution Day. 
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Are we really in the minority? I thought all right-thinking peeps wanted pliable bacon. I could be wrong, but I’m anony here and will never, ever admit it IRL.
A crispy chew — or chewy crisp, if you will — is my ideal.
No super-floppiness plz, but even tho I will eat it even shatteringly crisp, pliability is almost crucial for sammich applications.
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Thank you - “pliable” is the much better descriptor that I was grasping after. Much better than “chewy”.
The interesting thing about this batch is that I cooked it very slowly - took well over 1.5 hours for 3 pounds, on a griddle that will accommodate a half pound per turn. I was trying to make the cleanest (least burnt) bacon grease I could(*). All 3 pounds were within a week of u/b date, so I figured why not do them all, and 2 of the kids were home to help eat.
The negative was that visually the crispy (non-pliable) vs the pliable were indistinguishable, but picking them up with tongs and kind of shaking them told the tale.
The positive was that leftover retained almost entirely their originally cooked texture after being drained/pressed/refrigerated. So I’ll use this method again anytime I’m not in a hurry.
My partner and immediate circle of friends indicate that crispy seems to be the default presumption.
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Methinks Shane was hitting some kind of sauce
I tracked it down and it’s an actual IRL exchange on Daring Gourmet. Also someone calling themselves John Doe decided to got in on the act:
- I encountered the same problem! You see, I took all of the ingredients listed, and instead of honey, sesame oil, mirin, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, and corn starch, I just used plain water! And then I didn’t want all the sugar so I didn’t add the brown sugar. Then I put it in the freezer instead of on the stove. Tasted nothing like brownies!
Edit - this one looks familiar, so it (or something like it) may have been posted before.
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??? Not sure what that map means.
The letters are outside the boundaries of the state.
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It’s in the legend 
From the website “Terrible maps.“
I always liked “Herb and Jamaal”. Our local paper stopped including the strip even though the author lives in the city and is one of its most well respected citizens (and not for being the writer of the strip).
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The letters within state boundaries are about 1-2 font sizes larger (hence “giant” and “letters in them”) vs the NE states lettering which is outside of the states borders is, for some reason, smaller font.
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Pretty sure #7 was from Mitch Hedberg.
No idea if this is real or not… but accurate.
One I wish I’d seen a few days earlier:
MUPPETS
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