Wherever I look, there it is.

Every other com­mer­cial, I see it. Every few entrees on a menu, I read about it. Almost every cook­ing show I watch, I hear about it.

With all the shows on tele­vi­sion about los­ing weight, doc­tors telling peo­ple to eat organic, restau­rants putting healthy options on their menu for the health con­scious con­sumer, there is still one food out there that peo­ple lust for. I am of course refer­ring to America’s new obses­sion: bacon.

There is even a Facebook page for bacon in which 560,683 peo­ple decided it was worth their time to ‘like’ it.

People talk about bacon as if it is the holy grail of food. Horrible tast­ing food? No prob­lem, just throw some bacon on it. Push aside the salt and pep­per and pile on the fatty goodness.

I remem­ber the good ol’ days when bacon was a break­fast food. Now, every restau­rant com­mer­cial I see is adver­tis­ing new items with bacon on them.

From fast food to sit down restau­rants it doesn’t mat­ter. Businesses are shov­ing bacon down America’s throats and we love them for it.

Do not get me wrong, I do enjoy eat­ing bacon. I just hap­pen to enjoy other foods too. If I am in the mood for a steak or a burger, that’s what I want to taste. Not the bacon these restau­rants love to pile on it. Bacon is an over­pow­er­ing fla­vor; I should be able to enjoy these foods with out the side­kick of fatty pork.

Restaurants are out of con­trol. Any food that they can wrap bacon around, they will. If they can’t wrap it, then throw­ing some on top works too. Bacon wrapped aspara­gus, bacon wrapped scal­lops, for the love of calo­ries, there is even a bacon ice cream.

There is noth­ing wrong with enjoy­ing bacon every so often. Like most things in life though, it should be enjoyed in mod­er­a­tion. Anything that con­tains 251 calo­ries and 28 grams of fat per ounce should be moderated.

It is no won­der that the per­cent­age of over­weight Americans has grown to 63.1 per­cent and still ris­ing. All the healthy food we are eat­ing has Babe and Wilbur wrapped around it. n