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"Next time you order breakfast at a Marriott, you may notice something new about the bacon. Instead of being served in identical six-inch strips, it now comes in an assortment of sizes. That's because senior executives of Marriott, after sampling four or five varieties of bacon in a blind taste test, found that an irregular cut, which costs less, tastes just as good as the rectangular slices traditionally served in the company's hotels."

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Bacon FTW!

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by bconway6 on Jun 25, 2009 4:02 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I will be in the Marriott in Wichita next week, and will test this out

"If you let the men in you've got to let the women in. I don't want a bunch of women walking around in my locker room when guys take showers". Joe Paterno

by letsgopsu on Jun 25, 2009 5:01 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

These people must be borderline retarded

Bacon tastes great no matter what shape it’s in. Why would any human being assume or refuse to buy a slice of bacon with a slightly irregular shape? What is the big freaking deal if you’ve got an irregular bacon piece. Is someone going to complain? It’s bacon. You cannot go wrong, so long is it’s a serving tray with just bacon in it and not some additive crap to mess it up.

by dawsonPSU10 on Jun 26, 2009 12:09 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

yeah, I'm confused as well

they actually did a “test” to verify that bacon tastes good no matter what shape it is in? I call BS, and say these executives just wanted an excuse to eat bacon (not that there’s anything wrong with that).

Now there is some merit to thinking bacon would taste different based on different sizes/shapes, but that’s mostly due to cooking, and varying surface to volume ratios, but the biggest thing that will affect that would be the thickness, but it doesn’t seem like that varied too much in this. Also, I could imagine a bunch of guests thinking that all the small, irregularly shaped bacon were just leftovers, crumbs, and rejects, and shy away from eating it.

by The JuggerNitt on Jun 26, 2009 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

My thinking is this

they know people love bacon, no matter the shape/size. They reduced the size/amount of bacon and kept the price the same.

by Screen Name 20 on Jun 26, 2009 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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