All fried pork, all the time at ‘BaconCamp’

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – No matter how solid your recipe is, it is difficult to impress the inventor of the Turbaconducken, a chicken stuffed in duck stuffed in a turkey, all wrapped in bacon.

I found this out at the recent inaugural “BaconCamp, San Francisco,” a meeting and bacon recipe judging competition populated by the strangest and most vocal bacon lovers.

These are not your ho-hum “Let’s have some bacon for breakfast” types of guys and gals. These are the people who buy pillows that look like bacon and who spend hours in the kitchen dreaming up something new to do with bacon. They were wearing stickers with pigs on them, and so many of them wanted silk-screened shirts with a slice of bacon printed on them that the T-shirt maker broke his gear mid-event.

They are part of an increasing number of people who think of bacon as more than a source of protein – it’s a lifestyle.

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Mormon Newspaper Goof

The phone call Rich Evans got Monday morning wasn’t good news.

It was an employee at Brigham Young University’s The Daily Universe , where Evans is the editorial manager. There was a typo on the front page.

“It was the worst possible mistake,” Evans recalled.

The error? A caption on a photo from this weekend’s LDS General Conference stated that “Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostates and other general authorities raise their hands in a sustaining vote Saturday morning. …”

The newspaper staff retrieved as many of the 18,500 copies of the paper as possible and reprinted them with the correction. And it issued an apology to the apostles. The staff also explained how it happened: an error in spell-checking.

It started when a student misspelled the word “apostle” when writing the photo caption. When the caption was put through the editing software’s spell checker, it was flagged, and the editor accidentally clicked the first word that came up on the correct list: “apostate.” The mistake made it past two proofreaders before being sent off to the printing press.

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And in case you didn’t know . . .

Apostate –  A person who renounces a religion or faith.

Apostle –
1. A missionary, or leader of a mission, especially one in the early Christian Church (but see Apostle)
2. A pioneer or early advocate of a particular cause, prophet of a belief, etc.
3. A top-ranking ecclesiastical official in the Mormon (twelve-seat, hence the term) administrative council.

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U.S. Vets Help Create an Iraq War Game

Six Days In Fallujah, published by Japanese games giant Konami, is described as a ‘survival horror’ title for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.

Developed in collaboration with a handful of Iraq veteran US Marines – who have lent their videos, photos and diaries to the designers – the controversial action game is due for release next year.

A highly-decorated British Army colonel and the father of a lance corporal killed in action in Iraq have criticised the game and called for it to be banned.

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