What Denny's Doesn't Get About Bacon

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It's Baconalia at Denny's! Get it? The chain has launched an elaborate promotion, with a half a dozen bacon-themed additions to the menu, including a bacon sundae, bacon meat loaf and bacon flapjacks. We in the media are expected to marvel at its cleverness or cluck at the naughty, over-the-top excess. Really, though, we've all seen it before. Consumers, certainly, are unlikely to be impressed by either the menu or the wordy, unfunny manifesto that announced it. A few people extra will eat at Denny's out of curiosity, but most Denny's customers aren't there for the first time, or the last. This promotion, like so many in recent years, is a cheap attempt to milk a bacon fad that, in reality, ended years ago.

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[Kali03]

08:22 AM on 04/07/2011

Their bacon surely comes straight from the CAFO. So it's not "bacon" that they are selling. It's "tortured pig strips" and "bad karma blocks."

Yuck. Shameful. Disgusting.

Kali

[DissPlaceSokks]

12:27 PM on 04/06/2011

Beggin' for bacon.

[DissPlaceSokks]

11:58 AM on 04/06/2011

Breakfast don't get much better than Denny's. Bacon, included. 'nuff said. :#

[DashboardDiva]

12:02 PM on 04/06/2011

You said it!

[DissPlaceSokks]

12:03 PM on 04/06/2011

I believe I did just that!

[Nick Rowley]

03:12 PM on 04/06/2011

Yeah really I don't go there all that often but when i first visited the Detroit area I had breakfast there a number of times and liked it and when people come and visit me from back home I'll take them there more often than not at least on the first morning.

[Nick Rowley]

10:13 AM on 04/06/2011

Yeah my missus who loves "pig fruit" as she calls it saw the ad for Denny's and said, "nah still not interested".

[mary896]

11:28 AM on 04/06/2011

That is just the sickest thing I've heard in quite a while, pig fruit. This vegetarian is feeling ill now....no bacon required.

[Nick Rowley]

11:36 AM on 04/06/2011

This probably wasn't the best thread for you to read, all things considered. :)

[Woods-shade]

09:28 AM on 04/06/2011

I go to Denny's for only two reasons - It's the only restaurant in a small town, or it's the only one open all night other places. And at 1;30am, it's Manna from Heaven.

[Travis Jonquil]

07:33 PM on 04/05/2011

yes and no. it is getting close to bacon season, but I prefer mine at dawn in the desert with a fine dusting of playa. boo dennys, yea bacon man!

[janie@atthelake]

04:35 PM on 04/05/2011

:-) I can't think of Dennys without thinking of President Obama's visit there----from the Onion.
http://www.theonion.com/video/obama-drastically-scales-back-goals-for-america-af,14343/

[DashboardDiva]

12:26 PM on 04/06/2011

Good one! Fanned.

[janie@atthelake]

12:38 PM on 04/06/2011

;-) back at ya!

[BannedNBoston]

09:14 AM on 04/05/2011

We have Eastern smoke house in NH. Local pork no nitrates.

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/04/codex-alimentarius-revised-general.html

[DissPlaceSokks]

12:10 PM on 04/06/2011

Hmm hmm yum.

[butchcliff]

07:31 AM on 04/05/2011

Few meats are as bad for you as bacon...nitrates,fat,sodium.. then 'fried!'
Odd time I eat bacon at home, do it in the microwave in/on paper towel..3 min a side
Cooks out most of it....Denny's isn't doing anyone any favours

[cookerman45]

08:39 AM on 04/05/2011

bad is good?

[butchcliff]

07:25 AM on 04/06/2011

Odd time .....Bacon sure is tasty

[leftbehind2000]

01:26 AM on 04/05/2011

An extravaganza that Peter King could certainly appreciate.

[French Toast]

11:57 PM on 04/04/2011

Whoever came up with Baconalia gets my respect. That's a reference most Americans aren't smart enough to get. I say that as an American.

[BuckyJamesDio]

10:05 PM on 04/05/2011

Bless you for getting it. Now, how to eat the biscuits? Easy. Euripides in half.

[shthar]

11:00 PM on 04/04/2011

And if there was one product that you shouldn't need to advertise, it's bacon.

Which ought to tell you something about thebacon at denny's.

[COPESTIR3]

06:54 PM on 04/04/2011

We all know the kind of food we get at Denny's. We can not expect introduction to hand cured bacon smoked they way they do in Italy. But given that I have to watch the calorie count, I am inclined not to eat and Denny's and check out smoke houses in the area. I have a local butcher that specialized in bacon from around the world. Now, some say that is expensive. But given my calorie count I can't buy that much anyway. The adventure in taste is worth the extra expense.

[BuckyJamesDio]

05:36 PM on 04/04/2011

I'm guessing that approximately 99.8% of the Denny's customer base will not get the pun referenced in the promotion's title. The other .2% are college students there after an all-night bender.

[JScott]

05:28 PM on 04/04/2011

How many swine were raised in a CAFO for Denny's to be supplied with this sodium loaded bacon?

[leftbehind2000]

01:27 AM on 04/05/2011

Sadly, many of the four legged beast were likely more intelligent than the two-legged variety consuming them.