This article was very interesting, since I'd been puzzled by the popularity of bacon as a meme. I've also wondered about moustaches, which became a meme around the same time and with similar people and products, sort of the same "meme space". Is there something that drove the handlebar 'stache as a meme? (Reading this, it seems like kind of a crazy comment, but I do mean it seriously.)
I think Movember was the precipitant for the moustache craze. People started plastering moustache stickers on everything to indicate their support for the popular prostate cancer fundraiser, and then decided that moustaches were cool any time of the year (but not cool enough to actually grow them.)
