I heard it was in part a push from the pork industry. They were struggling to get grocery shoppers to keep buying bacon during the anti-fat fads of the 90s, so they spent millions lobbying fast food places and restaurants to make bacon a premium add-on 'bacon makes it better'; then the fast food marketing machine slowly brainwashed a generation into bacon obsession.

I think it was an overblown reaction about masculinity and being against vegetarianism and whatnot. Obviously it became less explicitly about that, but i do think it stems from those feelings originally.

JB copied them.

The system is down

There's a comm for it. Just not a lot of content

Oh my god i completely forgot how much everyone loved epic meal time. Could never to content like that in this economy.

I mostly remember Trogdor to be honest.

no, but i remember Strong Sad.

I remember it as the same time the narwhal bacon'ed. Never got the appeal of that meme.

And unfortunately I'm going to have to remind you how bad it got... https://www.baconaddicts.com/products/bacon-flavored-toothpaste-flavor-tooth-paste

"... Just to suffer?"

One of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here?