A neighborhood divided because of bacon. That is the story in Ashbury Heights in San Francisco, as some members of the community petitioned for the closure of a popular food truck named Bacon Bacon while the rest really just cared too much about the yummy breakfast food and cannot allow its closure.
The year-and-a-half-old popular restaurant serving everything imaginable with bacon from burgers, sandwiches to desserts and a bouquet made of bacon has been struggling against complaints of some neighbors that cannot handle the porcine aroma. According to reports, the pork odor is due to grease being dumped by the restaurant.
"Depending on the wind patterns day to day, there were strong odors of bacon," complains lawyer Ryan Patterson who represents the anti-Bacon Bacon neighbors in an interview with the NBC Bay Area.
It is hard to imagine for the smell of bacon not to spread everywhere when you have a restaurant that serves bacon scones, chicken-hugged bacon and tacos with bacon but there is another issue being raised by the complainants. It seems Bacon Bacon does not have the proper permits to operate.
"They have been operating without a permit since December 2011," Richard Lee from the Health Department of San Francisco revealed.
Jim Angelus, the owner of the restaurant, thought of installing an air filtration system worth $35,000 to appease his neighbors but he just cannot commit to do it if the local authorities will shut Bacon Bacon down.
Neighbors in support of their favorite food truck also had things to say and signed petitions to save the bacon joint.
Angelus received a call last Friday from Patterson and his neighbor and discussed a possible deal to push through with the installation of the air filtration system and the complaint would be dropped. The agreement remains to be just verbal and still needs the approval of San Francisco's Health and Planning Departments.
So for now, Bacon Bacon stays alive and oinking to serve the favorite pork dish of the world.
"There is a God," one David Colbert commented on the restaurant's Facebook page upon learning that the truck is still up and running.
Bacon Bacon has been featured before on a Discovery Series called "United States of Bacon" that dubbed the establishment as a pork paradise and a local swine shrine.
All the bacon commotion just made Bacon Bacon famous and was featured on SNL's Weekend Update:
