#bacon soap

This soap LITERALLY smells like Bacon. Not even exaggerating it smells like point, blank, fried, Bacon. 

Cooking stinks. Really, it stinks. I don't mean this in the existential dilemma 'what am I doing with my life? where is this path taking me? my job sucks... why God why?!?' kind of stinks. 

I mean the actual, literal 'yes, that is chicken blood covering my pant leg now' and 'oh delightful! week old fish that everyone forgot about!' The smell of the cold room permeated by 200 pieces of over-browned scallops. 10 pounds of salmon, portioned and seared. Even fresh seafood stinks in large quantities. 

Cooking for a living smells; for years I was somehow oblivious to this smelly fact, despite coming home to comments of 'You smell like pork,' and 'Were you cooking bacon today?' Yes, I did smell like pork, and I have at times cooked bacon, so much bacon, to the point I could feel the bacon grease coming off my body in the shower. Sexy, I know. To all you people crazy enough to buy bacon scented soap, save your money and get a job in a banquet kitchen, it's the same result. 

My olfactory fatigue may be a good explanation why suddenly my home kitchen has been abandoned completely, soon to be filled with rolling tumbleweeds, cobwebs, bats circling the dark corners of this empty cave. I've dreamed of making pozole, empanadas, all sorts of delicious Mexican dishes, but the thought of filling my otherwise scentless kitchen with the smell of anything is down right revolting.