The philosophical importance of bacon.

It's greasy, it's terrible for you, and we all love it.
But why?
Why is bacon so intrinsically... bacon-y?
Is there, cosmically speaking, a reason behind bacon being the delicious heart-attack inducing treat that it is?
Can we ever truly know anything of true importance about bacon?
Or is the study of baconomics all just a huge waste of our time?
Discuss.
Extra credit will be given for diagrams and/or sock puppet shows.

This is one of the ancient mysteries of the world, but there is scientific research being performed that will someday answer this most interesting of questions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/spoon-university/the-science-behind-why-ba_b_5456953.html

If someone has to explain bacon to you, then you wouldn't understand.

Few things in life make it worth living quite like bacon. Seriously, don’t trust anyone who doesn’t like the heavenly salty/crispy/meaty deliciousness that is bacon. Hipsters may have tried to ruin it with the overabundance of bacon references and products, but the product itself survived unscathed. One high point of this breakfast meat is that the joy of bacon doesn’t start when you eat it, but when it begins to cook and you start to smell it.

It turns out, the amazing aroma stems from 150 organic compounds. As heat is applied, sugars, amino acids, and fat in the meat undergo Maillard reactions, and creates the molecules used in their aroma. While many of these compounds smell amazing on their own, they are a force to be reckoned with when they are smelled in concert.


Read more at http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/science-why-bacon-smells-so-damn-good#t2D8LT40DH6YSPi4.99

-- Sauce: http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/science-why-bacon-smells-so-damn-good

Few things in life make it worth living quite like bacon. Seriously, don’t trust anyone who doesn’t like the heavenly salty/crispy/fatty/meaty deliciousness that is bacon.

Fixed that for you.

Everything else is spot on!

It seems that bacon can also save your life:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22224315

It's greasy, it's terrible for you, and we all love it.
But why?
Why is bacon so intrinsically... bacon-y?
Is there, cosmically speaking, a reason behind bacon being the delicious heart-attack inducing treat that it is?
Can we ever truly know anything of true importance about bacon?
Or is the study of baconomics all just a huge waste of our time?
Discuss.
Extra credit will be given for diagrams and/or sock puppet shows.

I don't love bacon, I don't even like it.

I don't love bacon, I don't even like it.

Liar.