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Oscar Mayer Proposes a New Bacon as a New Currency
Many people, even those who are not New York State residents, have probably heard the lottery slogan, “All it takes is a dollar and a dream.” Now comes an actor, comedian and writer, seeking to make his way across the country in the next two weeks with only a dream and, oh, yes, instead of a dollar, a trailer filled with 3,000 pounds of a new bacon.
The actor, Josh Sankey, will embark this week on a promotion for the Oscar Mayer division of Kraft Foods that is being called the Great American Bacon Barter. The promotion includes a Web site, baconbarter.com; social media like Twitter; and a public relations campaign.
Mr. Sankey’s trailer will be filled by Oscar Mayer with a ton and a half of its new Butcher Thick Cut bacon, which he is to trade for food, fuel, a place to spend the night and anything else he might need during his trip from the New York area to Los Angeles, by way of a route that is to include what Oscar Mayer executives describe as bacon-loving locales like Charleston, W.Va.; Louisville, Ky.; Chicago; and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
eternal cracker p
September 12th, 2012
Drive up to a mosque and he won’t be able to barter bacon for bail.. Unless he can do a quick-swap bacon to donuts. Otherwise, 3000 lbs of bacon is worth $10k all day.
Pearl Clutcher
September 12th, 2012
3,2,1…..this concept will be cancelled due to the offense it will cause to all “our” muslim brotha’s and sista’s. Although, I would pay to watch it go through the areas that have a high density of muslims.
Two Legged Blue Eyed Cracker
September 12th, 2012
Let’s send $1,000,000,000 in bacon to Egypt instead of our tax money.
Noodengr
September 12th, 2012
I hope he stays away from Dearbornastan MI, otherwise the trip will end with a public stoning
in the streets with chants of ” death to Oscar Meyer”
Dunk This !
September 12th, 2012
There’s baloney in the White House; why not bacon too?
Ray
September 12th, 2012
I no longer want to put our nation back on the gold standard. Upon further review, America needs to be on the bacon standard.
Roadmaster
September 12th, 2012
MMmmmmm! Love me some bacon…..
Racist
September 12th, 2012
Last time I could afford bacon, it was at about $4.00 lb. That puts this guy with somewhere around $12,000 worth of bacon. I don’t think he’ll have any problems making it cross-country with that.
66chevelle
September 12th, 2012
@Two Legged Blue Eyed Cracker–”Let’s send $1,000,000,000 in bacon to Egypt instead of our tax money.”
Better yet, let’s send the bacon to them on the hoof, in the form of 10 breeding pairs of Texas feral pigs, deposited clendestinely along the Nile by SEAL teams. Keep the Fakirs busy for decades.
whorealdo rivera
September 12th, 2012
quick, somebody check ALL of jim gaffigan’s SWISS bank accounts
fullcirclethinker
September 12th, 2012
Talk about taking home the bacon!!
Mountain Dog
September 12th, 2012
I hate smelly muslim cabbies too. What better way to avoid them?
jerry t
September 12th, 2012
$5 bacon, $4 gas, THANKS BARRY for your fantastic energy strategy to make energy rates necessarily SKYROCKET