Bacon and ice cream

Last Updated on April 15, 2017 by Dave Farquhar

So Burger King decided that a bacon sundae is a good idea. I have to mention it because this blog’s original name, back in October 1999 was, believe it or not, Bacon and Ice Cream. No kidding, though I’m not sure many people are still around who remember that. A week or two later, I decided that was too weird and re-launched as The Silicon Underground.

The name was a reference to an obscure Lou Reed song called What’s Good, which contained the line, “Life’s like bacon and ice cream. That’s what life’s like without you.”

So the question is, if life’s like bacon and ice cream, does Lou Reed think life is something good, or something bad?

I have a hard time imagining soggy, chewy Burger King bacon and mushy Burger King ice cream being good together, and I think when he published that song in 1992, Lou Reed didn’t think bacon and ice cream sounded like a good combination either. But 1992 was a long time ago.

I wonder if Burger King has thought of licensing “What’s Good” and using it as background music in a commercial for this new product?

Dave Farquhar

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.