Thank you to Soufside from the Bottlerockets message board for calling my attention to this thrilling BBC story detailing the specifics of bacon perfection. The crossroads of mathematics and pork is a mysterious one, but Leeds University scientists have pinpointed the exact intersection. Read more here.
Ack!! Just when I thought I was sufficiently educated on bacon butties,aka bacon sandwiches, along comes Mike R to point out an even more thorough report from the New York Times on this groundbreaking bacon research.
A short tidbit follows:
Researchers at Leeds University spent more than 1,000 hours testing
700 variants on the traditional bacon sandwich, which many Britons
refer to as a bacon butty (eschewing the term sandwich, said to have
been coined to honor the fourth Earl of Sandwich’s habit of eating
meat between slices of bread around 1762).
For Britons, butties come in a variety of guises — chip butties
(French fries between slices of bread), crisp butties (ditto with
potato chips) or even sugar butties, which are self-explanatory.
Read on here, particularly if you wonder about sarnies and bangers.
There is an especially wonderful photo of a buttie, too.
The Lunch Encounter 
Did you know that a Frosted Flakes and Miracle Whip sandwich tastes just like bacon?
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