I wrote a tweet earlier today (a prayer, really):  “bacon is a vegetable.”  Almost immediately, someone called baconbaconbacon replied saying, “Bacon shrimp ontop [sic] of hot dogs is bliss!“

Okay, I’m intrigued.

Judging by the speed of the response to me, the frightening number of responses to other unwitting bacon admirers (~100 tweets in the last five hours), and the occasional repetition of their absurdist statements, this has got to be an automated response system.

Being in the industry that we’re in, I immediately assume that it’s a front for the bacon lobby. The auto-responder is trying to drum up interest in their product, doing something akin to “Got Milk” or “Beef, it’s what’s for dinner” or “The Incredible Edible Egg.”

In other words, just another spam twitterer, right?

Well… Looking deeper into it, the site listed on baconbaconbacon’s profile is The Holy Church of Bacon, a wiki about — you guessed it — all things that have even a passing association with bacon. The same tongue-in-cheek tone, the same absurdist content. Clicking the “random page” link three times: The National Bacon Party (ostensibly a political organization), a pig prayer, and the Elvis sandwich (peanut butter, bacon, and banana on bread — fried).

Hearteningly, there is no reference whatsoever to a corporate sponsor for the site. Even the site registration data (I used Whois to check) is opaque.

But even if there were Big Brother behind it somehow, this time, in this one instance, I don’t think I’d really mind.  Finding this little world was totally unexpected, and everything I ran across was amusing — no matter how deep I dug, everything was consistently fun and entertaining.

It gives beef and eggs something to aim for, I guess.