# The Cost of Bacon Soars! **URL:** \ **Category:** contests\ **Created:** [April 30, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-cost-of-bacon-soars/187557 "2006-04-30T14:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![glosrfc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/glosrfc/32/8334_2.png) [@glosrfc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/glosrfc)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-cost-of-bacon-soars/187557/1 "2006-04-30T14:29:51Z")
A quick pastiche of a popular magazine… …with global uncertainties and investor speculation on the international pork markets, the price of crude pig has steadily climbed to record levels. In the UK, there have been calls for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to abandon a recent increase in SAT (Snout Added Tax) as the cost of ham nears the £8 per lb mark. Europeans have also joined in the protests. In France, _charcutiers_ are besieged as Parisians try to get hold of imported _quartier du porc_ while, in Berlin, many Germans already fear that they can no longer afford _Sulperknochen_ or _Eisbein_. Meanwhile, in the US, consumers have watched as the cost of bacon climbs inexorably past the .99c barrier. When a single rasher is offered for sale at the astronomical price of $2, an internationally-famous magazine produces the following cover entitled [COLOR=red] **“The Price of Bacon Soars”** [/COLOR] [![](http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6421/newpork0ye.th.jpg)](http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newpork0ye.jpg) ![](http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6421/newpork0ye.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![itsalljazzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@itsalljazzy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/itsalljazzy)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-cost-of-bacon-soars/187557/2 "2006-05-01T05:32:23Z")
Dog’s don’t know it’s not bacon!!