Vegetarian Bacon

There are certain rules enforced by the internet community that, if disregarded, are probably punished by the CyberPolice or something.
Some of these rules are...

• It is a sin to wear Crocs
• No one should like Nickelback
• Comic Sans = the worst font. THE WORST FONT.
• Everyone needs a plan for the oncoming zombie apocalypse
• "Pics or it didn't happen"
• Don't feed the trolls
• If it exists, there is probably porn of it

But another great one that seems to be perpetuated by the internet is that bacon is the best food ever. 

Well since becoming a pescetarian (for an explanation and further information on pescetarianism click here to read my article on it) I'd been in search, on a quest of sorts, to find "vegetarian bacon"

Yes, I knew it seemed like sacrilege but I wanted to see if such a thing existed out of sick curiosity if nothing else. I've had Quorn in the form of mince, pepperoni, chicken pieces and so on. I've had tofu that looks like chicken chunks. Bacon was the one thing I was searching for, but today I tried it expecting little of the experience. I was actually shocked at how nice it was. In the picture above the faux bacon comes out of a package looking like plastic, or a long strip of pink gum, hardly delicious. I fried it up with some eggs from our free range pet hens. Many of the hens we keep are rescued battery hens and now that they are no longer made to lay in such harsh conditions they lay huge, healthy eggs. Fried up all together the bacon browned around the sides and sizzled away with the eggs frying at their side. I've heard several people say that they wouldn't be able to deal with vegetarianism because they love bacon too much. Quorn bacon, if fried well, has a similar enough salty flavouring that real bacon has without the fatty cuts around the edges.

Like most things - don't knock it 'til you've tried it. I was unsure of it too until I took a bite.