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Mini Poll: A City of Bacontrepreneurs
 When regular reader Bryan Sapot suggested a Mini-Poll on bacon, we initially resisted. After all, salt-cured meat would seem to be unlikely fodder for a feature that regularly (OK, sometimes) addresses serious matters of public policy. But, a rasher of thought reminded us that bacon-as-meme regularly fills Mayor Slay's Twitter stream and routinely clogs his email folders.
And it is not as if bacon were a topic without a solid grounding in our City's history. As the provisioners for the nation's westward expansion in the 19th Century, St. Louis merchants, chandlers, cobblers, blacksmiths, and butchers stocked thousands of pioneer wagons with the breadstuff, coffee, flour, shoes, shirts, tools, and bacon needed for the overland journey to California or Oregon. (How much bacon did it take to get from St. Louis to Los Angeles? A contemporary estimate suggests 100 pounds of bacon, per person.)
Most of us know bacon as a breakfast food which sometimes makes a happy cameo appearance in sandwiches at lunch. But, bacon's popularity has inspired kitchens (and bartenders) throughout the City who now pair bacon up with a variety of other things and serve the salty treat as cocktail, entrée, and dessert.
So, even though we expect to be flooded with your outraged comments that we missed your favorite bacon dish, this week's sizzling poll hopes to quantify your feelings about The Best Meat Ever. And, as a nod to you public policy wonks, we included a question about a Bacon Tax.
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