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If I ever had occasion to show a Victorian time-traveler around the 21st century, I wouldn't try to blow his mind with iPods, personal computers, smartphones and the like. As an educated, tech-savvy gentleman of the 19th century, nothing of that nature would be outside of his ability to extrapolate from existing technology.

I would instead escort him straight to a supermarket and show him this:

Precooked-bacon2
Packaged, pre-cooked bacon.

"My God, sir!" he would exclaim. "Such wonders your world contains!"

He would then return to his own time and destroy the infernal time machine with an axe so that no other man would be stricken with the knowledge of such future miracles. "'Twould have been preferable to have never tasted Hormel Precooked Bacon," he would write in his diay, "than to be forever haunted by its memory."

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