Making Facon
Charles Mingus - The Clown
When I was about 12, there was a record called Making Bacon by the The Pork Dukes. It was a kind of rude-comedy-punk tune, with the activity in the title being a euphemism for sexual intercourse. Me and my mate Paul used to like it. We were 12, like.
That song has lodged in my head since and I sing the chorus every time making bacon, or facon, as was later the case, came up.
Fast forward to about five years ago, and I met up again with Paul, who now lives in Fremantle. Turns out that he too sings The Pork Dukes every time he makes bacon.
I mention this because today I will be making facon. I do this every couple of months, so that I always have some in the freezer. One of the key ingredients is Liquid Smoke. This seems to have been dropped from all the supermarkets since I bought my last bottle, so I had to schlep across town to a specialist Mexican shop to get some.
Whilst I was over that side of town I did some trail running in the hills for the first time in ages, and was reminded of how difficult it can be, when you don’t do it often enough.
It did give me the opportunity to hobble into Big Star Records, a shop I haven’t been to in years, where I picked up this.
It’s fantastic.
Its title track does remind me of the funniest joke ever, so always makes me smile.
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