With Great Bacon, Comes Great Responsibility, Part 22

Coworkers, Office, USA | Working | October 4, 2017

(My coworkers and I are sitting waiting for a meeting to start. One of my coworkers is Orthodox Jewish; he wears a skullcap, the whole deal. At this meeting, we have been provided lunch. We don’t really want to be at this meeting, and are fairly certain it will be boring.)

Coworker #1: *looking at lunch that was provided* “It’s okay, guys, the sandwiches have bacon on them. That makes the meeting worth it.”

Me: “This is going to be badly-received, but I still think it’s not worth it, because I don’t understand the bacon hype.”

Coworker #1: “I can’t talk to you anymore.”

Me: “Bacon is just meat. I like it, but it’s overrated.”

Coworker #2: “Yeah, I’m kind of with her. I don’t hate bacon, but I don’t get the bacon hype.”

Coworker #1: “You are both not my friends anymore.”

Orthodox Jewish Coworker: “I don’t get the bacon hype either.”

Coworker #1: “You’re Jewish. Have you ever had bacon?”

Orthodox Jewish Coworker: “No. Still don’t get the hype.”

Coworker #1: “Okay, you can still be my friend, because you’d like bacon if you weren’t Jewish.”