I'm not normal

Long story short, I had a prof back at CU who I am not sure the nature of my relationship. On one hand, I could rant with this prof in a friendly way for hours, mostly about pet peeves such as "abuse of linear regression" (argh) and also about "why do people eat so much sausage and cheese when they are on the Atkins diet?" You see this professor was trying to lose some weight by eating healthy and meanwhile so was the department head, who was on the Atkins plan.  

Now, the Atkin's plan in its original, scientific context, based on the work of Kekwick and Padwan (1953) is a good idea for people with Type 2 diabetes. Essentially the doctors noticed that extremely obese people in a very controlled study (water intake monitored, food intake monitored, exercise monitored, etc.) who were put on a diet of > 80% carbohydrates would gain weight, even when eating less than 900 calories per day. This of course violates the laws of thermodynamics, so the scientists were confused. They also had some subjects on a 2000 calorie per day diet (normal male or active female intake) that was approximately equal proportions carbohydrate, protein and fat, and found that these people lost weight steadily. When they took their subjects on the high carbohydrate diet and increased their diet by 1000 calories of solely protein and fat (some all protein, some all fat, some mixed) they found that these subjects lost weight, and it was concluded that substances in proteins and fats were needed to metabolize carbohydrate. It was then recommended that a diet should have a significant amount of protein and fat for weight loss, and in a calorie controlled diet, that meant that carbohydrate was often reduced. To make a long story short people get carried away with ideas and so the whole Atkins thing spun out of this with the thought of carbs are evil.

Anyway, he often observed the department head eating entire plates of sausage, which seems very excessive. Somehow we got into a joke about weird things you could do with bacon, and it ended up becoming sort of an email thing over a while of bacon related webpages and recipes, and even some bacon chocolate was included at one point.

So i've not heard from this prof in nearly a year, and today I received:
http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/bacon-flavored-soda-sizzles-onto-shelves/19697827?test=latestnews
That is right. Bacon flavored soda.

ICK.