Some one once asked, “Why cookies are called cook-ies and bacon called bake-on when you bake cookies but cook bacon.”

Good question.

Let’s answer it.

As it so happens the word cookie has nothing to do with cooking.

Cookie is from an old Dutch word “koekji” meaning “little cake.”

And “bacon” isn’t related to baking. But rather “back”. From old German bakkon meaning “back meat”.

While it has become colloquially synonymous with a part of a pig, bacon is not actually particular to a type of animal but rather infact a particular cut of any animal. Namely the back or belly.

So while we should never eat bacon made from an unclean animal especially a pig, we must ask if there is anything wrong with consuming bacon made from any other animal.

Obviously it’s not forbidden meat but is it creating the appearance of evil for those who may see us eating and not know that bacon isn’t just pig?

It is a question worth asking?

And what about Turkey bacon which is completely kosher but fully fake and trying to imitate and replicate the flavor of the bacon common folk find familiar which is pork.

What of this then? A thing made from a clean animal but artificially flavored to taste like an unclean animal. There’s no commandment against this directly but does this fall under the category of “appearance of evil”.?

While we ourselves do not conclude that these are inherently evil, nevertheless it remains an important set of questions we each aught to ask ourselves to remain in a good conscience and right standing before the lost.

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