User:ChildofMidnight/Bacon Challenge 2009

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Bacon Challenge 2009

Background

In an act of swine influenza-induced madness, Kelapstick, a.k.a. "Geo," has proposed the creation of a series of bacon-related articles over a short period of time. This gargantuan and meticulously planned effort will then be unleashed to dominate DYK and produce a DYK grouping with nothing but bacon related hooks. This ingenious and highly constructive proposal from a bacon maniac and co-founder of the bacon cabal (and board member in good standing) comes highly recommended. All cabal members and non-members are urged to sign on and contribute.

The plan

Proposal

Proposal: 8 bacon related articles.
Updated proposal: As many bacon related articles as possible

Rules

The articles should be worked up in sandboxes so they can all be debuted in one day's DYK listing.
Tentative date for debut Wednesday, May 27.

Participants

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kelapstick (talk · contribs)
Drmies (talk · contribs)
Bigger digger (talk · contribs)
Law (talk · contribs)
Acebulf (talk · contribs) - Find me an article to work on.
ChildofMidnight (talk · contribs)
LadyofShalott (talk · contribs) - probably won't write an article, but trying to help with copyediting/cats/whatever little stuff

Important subjects that don't yet have articles

Bacon related

The official scope of the project is bacon related articles

Rumaki Might be ripe for 5x expansion? See [1] (Google Books) and [2] Google news.
Foods of Elvis Not sure on the title, but there are already articles on the "Elvis sandwich" (a.k.a. peanut butter, banana and bacon), and the Fool's Gold Loaf, and I believe there are a couple books and lots of articles on the subject. A bacon hook would be a slam dunk.
Bacon in popular culture (currently a redirect to bacon mania which isn't really the same thing)[3]
W M Wight: well known and historic purveyor of the bacon butty [4], only source I can find though...
Bacon rolls. An omnibus article with {{main}} links to articles such as Angels on horseback and Devils on horseback, but including other recipes such as Bacon and banana rolls, Bacon and cheese rolls Bacon and sausage rolls, Bacon Cinnamon Roll and so on. Mies, Dr. is working on the Angels article I believe
- Angels are done; the rest, I don't see the potential for full-fledged articles there. Sorry, Drmies (talk) 20:07, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Bacon alternative ie. fakon, turkey bacon, tofu bacon etc. Could include a blurb about turkey bacon (now DYKable) with a {{main}} template, but I think turkey bacon is about the most notable of the alternatives...
Bacon chips
Bacon bath salts
Nickel Diner
Pig Candy Might be worth expanding? Very short now.
BLT

Pig related

Failing enough bacon related articles, pig related articles can be used, we should try to use a bacon related hook

Kurobuta (just a redirect)
Bio-blend Fuels (company that makes biofuels from pig fat)
Gloucestershire Old Spots - pig breed known for good bacon
List of domestic pig breeds - quite a few redlinks there, probably several other bacon breeds
North Sulawesi Babirusa - how close did this come to being Kosher bacon?

Articles under construction

User:Bigger digger/Bacon ice cream No article for chocolate ice cream, but that's only because it's not as interesting...!
User:Drmies/Sandbox/bacon/Snake 'n' Bacon--K-stick, feel free to jump in: you know these kinds of things
In the works: see User:Drmies/Sandbox/bacon/List of pig metaphors, idioms, and expressions

squeal like a pig, act like a pig, piggish, pig out, piggy bank. [5]

See Cultural references to pigs. Ladyof Shalott 18:58, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

User:Acebulf/sandbox - Expanding Pig candy. Need help finding references here.
User:ChildofMidnight/BLT - Improving BLT sandwich from 400 prose characters to at least 2000. (Can't believe the article was so small) Acebulf (talk) 19:34, 13 May 2009 (UTC) There may not be enough good sources, but I'm adding it back to the list and I'm going to see what I can find... Feel free to check out the other topics or add a new one.ChildofMidnight (talk) 00:42, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Articles that meet the 1,500 or 5x expansion criteria

These article have the required 1,500 character length (or have been expanded 5x), but feel free to expand and improve.

User:Kelapstick/Peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich 3,776 characters
1. User:Bigger digger/Seduced by Bacon: Recipes & Lore about America's Favorite Indulgence 1,800 characters intend to move into mainspace as Seduced by Bacon
2. user:ChildofMidnight/Joanna Pruess 1,763 characters
user:ChildofMidnight/National Pig Day 4,601 characters(Hey CoM, I did my usual cleanup of your usual ref mess--that's a pretty trivial article! Perfect! Drmies)
User:Drmies/Sandbox/bacon/Angels on horseback 3,046 characters from 316
User:Kelapstick/Mitch Morgan 2,176 characters
User:ChildofMidnight/Stegt Flæsk 1,911 characters
User:Kelapstick/Turkey bacon 1,542 characters could be expanded some more, but it squeaks by as is
User:Kelapstick/Bacon martini 2,125 characters
User:ChildofMidnight/Miniature pig
Maple bacon donut
Snake 'n' Bacon many characters
Bacon vodka 1,788 characters

Hooks

Make sure the # for the hook matches the # in the completed articles section

... that the peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich would be New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's choice for his last meal and was a favorite with Elvis?
... that Seduced by Bacon by Joanna Pruess includes a recipe for pecan, brown sugar and bacon ice cream as well as writings by Mark Twain?
... that National Pig Day is included in a handbook for first year teachers as a day for activities including cooking bacon, making BLTs, and discussing where pork chops come from?
... that angels on horseback are an appetizer of bacon-wrapped oysters that was invented in 1888 and featured in the New York Times in 1896 as a "dish for sultry weather"?
... that a Mitch Morgan, bourbon with a slice of bacon as a garnish served as the inspiration for Bacon Salt?
... that Stegt Flæsk, a popular bacon dish in Danish cuisine, has been described as "a dish of pork fat, and only pork fat, in parsley sauce. Mmmm".
... that turkey bacon is used as a substitute for pork bacon at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe locations in the Middle East?
... that to prepare a bacon martini, bacon has to soak in vodka for 24 hours, before it is strained over ice and served with a bacon garnish?
... that miniature pigs are used for medical research and kept as pets, unlike the larger bacon-type pigs raised for meat. ChildofMidnight (talk) 16:34, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
alt. ...that miniature pigs are bred and raised as pets and for medical research into organ transplant rather than for bacon?
... that a maple bacon donut is already famous at a new Wichita, Kansas donut shop?
... that Snake 'n' Bacon is a cartoon consisting of asnake and a strip of bacon duo whose conversations are limited to hissing (on Snake's part) and making bacon-related comments (on Bacon's part)?
alt: ... that on the cartoon show Snake 'n' Bacon the Bacon character communicates solely with bacon related comments like, "I am a piece of bacon."?
... that Bacon vodka is vodka infused with bacon flavor and based on the concept of "meat and potatoes"?
alt by ChildofMidnight ...that bacon vodka has been used to make bacon martinis, the Bacon Russian, a marinade for meat, and a version of the Bloody Mary called the "Bakon Mary"?