{"id":1502,"date":"2010-07-28T07:58:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T07:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2010-07-28T07:58:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T07:58:30","slug":"a-bacon-sandwich-how-do-you-like-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2010\/07\/28\/a-bacon-sandwich-how-do-you-like-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"A bacon sandwich &#8211; how do you like yours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ps1286231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1505 aligncenter\" title=\"Bacon Sandwich\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ps1286231.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ps1286231.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ps1286231-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If there were ever an illustration of what a wonderfully diverse and picky people we are, it was a couple of weeks ago when I tweeted innocuously &#8216;how do you like your bacon sandwich?&#8217; I expected a sarky &#8216;with bacon in it&#8217; response, the odd maple-cure  bacon, organic mustard, sourdough bread preference and a whole heap of  nothing, but the answers came flooding in.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There were only a few criteria offered:<\/p>\n<p>Smoked or unsmoked bacon?<br \/>\nBack or streaky?<br \/>\nRed sauce or brown?<br \/>\nToasted or untoasted?<\/p>\n<p>There was little hesitation or compromise &#8211; each and every person had a very strong idea of how they wanted the porky loaf. We might not know our sumac from our za&#8217;atar, but we sure as hobnobs know how we like our bacon sandwiches.<\/p>\n<p>The winning combination was the simplest &#8211; smoked back bacon with ketchup on untoasted bread; rather like the one above, but with a damn sight more bacon I hope.<\/p>\n<p>How do you like yours?<\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-1502\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">0<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">0<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there were ever an illustration of what a wonderfully diverse and picky people we are, it was a couple of weeks ago when I tweeted innocuously &#8216;how do you like your bacon sandwich?&#8217; I expected a sarky &#8216;with bacon in it&#8217; response, the odd maple-cure bacon, organic mustard, sourdough bread preference and a whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[46,49,401,433,631,747,822],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-back","tag-bacon-sandwich","tag-hp","tag-ketchup","tag-preference","tag-streaky","tag-untoasted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zdji-oe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}