Oct 5 2009Delicious Light: DIY Bacon Strip Lampshade

Bacon, perhaps the most versatile tool on the planet (suck it, duct tape!), can be fashioned into just about anything. Including, but not limited to: guns and lube. And what more does a person really need (besides the love of a good woman and maybe a pet)?!
Anyway, Flickr user Kris Kelley went and made a lampshade out of bacon slices and posted a little picture tutorial. And one thing's for certain: I bet it smells divine when it heats up! Plus, 10 to 1 odds your dog eats the whole lamp first you leave the house. Ever seen a dog pass an electric cord? It's something you don't forget.
Thanks to jessica, who gamma radiated a pig in the hopes of creating naturally glowing bacon. Unfortunately, it just turns green and beats the shit out of things when it gets mad.

Reader Comments
1. GOD!!!!!!!!!! - October 5, 2009 12:10 PM
ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOUR NOT FIRST BC I AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. Closet Nerd - October 5, 2009 12:10 PM
I can't wait to see my dog sh*t a whole light bulb when he eats this lamp!!!
3. Hawk - October 5, 2009 12:17 PM
What is with America and the bacon fetish?? Everything in bacon!
4. Jessica Barnes - October 5, 2009 12:27 PM
bacon = life for Americans....even for the vegetarians here
5. BoardWeasel - October 5, 2009 12:46 PM
I can't seem to learn to love bacon the way most do... oh well, at least I still have Taco Bell!
http://trevor-valentini.mybrute.com
6. Taylored - October 5, 2009 12:53 PM
I am not a fire marshal, but that looks like a fire hazard.
I looks like an electrical and grease fire all rolled up into one delicious home owners insurance claim.
7. Geekolojew - October 5, 2009 12:53 PM
Must See!!!
http://alturl.com/obg7
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8. BringChung - October 5, 2009 12:56 PM
The bacon meme needs to stop. It's gotten old and it's not funny anymore. We need to find a new food item to be obsessed with. I say string-cheese. You can make a lot of cool stuff out of string cheese.
9. Taylored - October 5, 2009 1:06 PM
@8
Good point. I want to see a good mountaineering rope made from string cheese.
10. Scruff Mcgruff - October 5, 2009 1:13 PM
@9 yeah and when the mountain goats take a nice chomp out of that thing when your 20 feet from the peak, I'll be the one who is in my nice warm home watching you on the 5 O'clock news. "Man fell 368 to his death today from a string cheese rope accident" lol and i will ROFLcopter all over...all over your face!
11. Ham Bone - October 5, 2009 1:27 PM
STRING CHEESE ... that is the gayest thing i have ever heard
america didnt become the greatest country in the universe by eating rotten milk ... we became the awesomest by eating meat and blowing $hit up
you know who eats cheese ... the french
you know who eats bacon ... the united states of awesomness
12. Scruff Mcgruff - October 5, 2009 1:31 PM
@11 yeah...sadly i agree i mean being 100 1/2% AMERICAN myself i cant think of any better way to spend my evening than to blow up a durka dee or two while eating a good Ol fashioned slim jim....and by blow up a durka i mean call of duty 4 because i am too much a puss-bot to join the military
13. Blastphemer - October 5, 2009 1:35 PM
What do you mean "lampshade"??? Have I been cooking it wrong all these years?!!!
Just kidding...there's no need to ever cook the stuff. I just hang several strips on the inside of my underwear to keep it kinda warm, then pull a strip out when i get a little hungry, roll it up into a ball, and gnaw on it for a while till all the flavor has been chewed and sucked out.
14. Scruff Mcgruff - October 5, 2009 1:49 PM
you know i dont think that anyone actually noticed this. take a good look at this guy in the picture he looks like a child molester, go ahead I'll wait.......................................................told you. "trick or treat!, Bacon? what is this $hit" "Come in little children" i want you to eat my lamp shade".
15. Ham Bone - October 5, 2009 2:04 PM
@14 ... come to think of it i remember this guy giving me some funny tasting candy one time ... i woke up 3 days later in an alley in albuquerque with a really sore anus ... i never really thought anything of it before
16. Scruff Mcgruff - October 5, 2009 2:19 PM
see what i mean..
17. I don't dare give my name - October 5, 2009 2:48 PM
Killing pigs to make lampshades? Smells like a porcine holocaust.
18. obert - October 5, 2009 2:56 PM
I witnessed my dog passing a pair of nylons once. I actually had to go out in the yard wearing a rubber glove and help him out by pulling. Oh, it was a fun day.
19. Blastphemer - October 5, 2009 2:59 PM
@17
Was that a missing line from Sabbath's War Pigs?
It's awesome!
20. Me - October 5, 2009 3:20 PM
what is up with all this bacon stuff? it's not interesting at all, and at first it was a tiny bit funny but now its just annoying! And dinosaurs suck too!
21. Closet Nerd - October 5, 2009 3:21 PM
@19
Have you heard Cake's (Cake the Band) cover of Black Sabbath's 'War Pigs'?
Its pretty cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-Sides_and_Rarities_(Cake_album)
22. Ham Bone - October 5, 2009 3:38 PM
@20 YOU SUCK!!!
23. Blastphemer - October 5, 2009 3:52 PM
@21
I had not heard it before. I'll check it out when I get home. I'll also HAVE to check out their Mahna, Mahna cover of the Muppets!!! Think that originally appeared on Sesame St, but always kinda pictured Animal doing a version with The Electric Mayhem. Guess I'll settle for a Cake cover of it. ; )
Also interested in hearing how they covered Barry White and Frank tunes.
Should be fun...good look bud. Thx.
24. Closet Nerd - October 5, 2009 4:42 PM
@23
You're welcome.
The Barry White & Frank Sinatra jams they do are my favorite.
DJ Z-Trip has some good stuff too (and a lot of it is free on his site too)
http://www.djztrip.com/downloads.html
I like spreading the word of good music.
25. Scruff Mcgruff - October 5, 2009 4:48 PM
@24 your a dic*k up the Ass-tard...jk i think that your lifestyle choices are perfectly normal and despite what the bible says, i dont think your kind will burn in hell
26. Blastphemer - October 5, 2009 5:45 PM
@24
Thanks again. Haven't heard of DJ Z-Trip before. I'll give it a listen. I'm not too big into the whole mashup craze, but some are pretty damn good (and others are pretty damn funny).
27. Adam Peter Parry - October 6, 2009 5:02 AM
triforce
triforce
TRIFORCE
28. Jaded Icon - October 6, 2009 8:14 AM
This is definatly NOT for anybody that owns pets. So what's next? A bacon couch?.....cuz that would be awesome!