Over the past year, bacon has turned multifunctional as the trendiest ingredient around. We've seen it in vodka, as a flavoring for mayonnaise, and even as a savory take on dental floss. But bacon, as it turns out, is even more useful than one could've ever imagined. It also happens to makes for a very handy bookmark.
Dan Thompson, a librarian and collector from the UK's seaside town of Worthing, discovered a thin slice of bacon that was being used to bookmark a page in a returned book. Apparently, such an occurrence isn't as uncommon as it sounds; The Argus, which first reported the story, references a similar website that lists locales where other people have found rashers, or slices of bacon, in books.
I would jump on the bandwagon, if it weren't for the fact that I'm partial to my favorite bookmark, an asparagus spear. Have you ever heard of this phenomenon?






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um, does this not make sense to anyone else?
grease stains? raw meat? I might be out of my mind on this, but seems to me that a strip of bacon might be bad news bears, especially after a couple of days. just throwing it out there.
1Gross! Wouldn't it get smelly and rot?
Does an asparagus spear last longer and not get smelly?
2It wasn't me! Chiefdishwasher must have done it!
3You know I would not be leaving a piece of bacon behind.....must have been some one trying to give bacon a bad wrap!
4that is freaking disgusting
5Gross! Library card revoked.
6As some one who works in a library, this would piss me off. And no one has ever returned books with food inside of them so I don't think this "phenomenon" is all that big of a trend.
7I've never heard of this before, like aphill4 doesn't it make stains and smell?
8Yeah, this annoys me too. Sorry if this makes me a spoilsport, but other people are going to use those books too. Leaving grease stains and food smashed into public property is NOT cute/funny, it's extremely inconsiderate.
9Waste of a good piece of bacon, really ...
10ewwwwwww. this makes me so queasy. just use the receipt or an empty envelope!
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