The New Bacon Currency - Dogs Don't Know It's Not Money

Here's a guy after my own heart, um, stomach. He's bartering his way across the country with 3,000 pounds of bacon.

“There’s this fever for bacon in this country,” said Tom Bick, director for integrated marketing communications and advertising at Oscar Mayer in Madison, Wis.
 

As food prices keep rising, this might be a good idea.

(a spatula salute! to Instapundit)