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I've read the caption 5 times and I still have no idea. (25.media.tumblr.com)

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[–]joobia 20 points21 points ago

"Fancy Dress" is another term for "costume" This guy apparently made his own bacon costume and won a contest for it. The bacon is more like what I would call a "rasher", which is the norm for bacon over in the uk/ireland. The "normal" bacon americans are used to is much fattier and cut differently. Either way, this it's nice to see that even back then, they understood that bacon trumps everything.

[–]johnny_come_lately99 3 points4 points ago

And forty quid was a lot of money back then. (Worth about GBP 3,000 in 2001 purchasing power. See here.)

[–]Teotwawki69 1 point2 points ago

"Fancy Dress" is another one of those points of confusion between British and American English. What the Brits call "fancy dress" the Americans would call a "costume party," and what we call "fancy dress" is what the Brits would call "formal," or maybe something weirder and incomprehensible.

So, yeah -- a lot of confused showing up in a tux when everyone else is dressed for Hallowe'en, or a couple of guys showing up as a panto horse when everyone else is in black tie and evening gowns.

[–]totemo 1 point2 points ago

Monty Python doesn't seem quite so out there, now, does it?

[–]Konna_tokoro_de 3 points4 points ago

A rasher of bacon is a single slice of bacon. A side of bacon is, like, the whole side of the pig that's been made into bacon.

[–]MonkE 4 points5 points ago

NOW THAT'S A REDDITOR!

[–]FrankManic 10 points11 points ago

Translated out of Anglosaxonese it says "Bob dressed up as delicious bacon for a costume party and totally won like forty bucks".

[–]VassiliZaitsev 2 points3 points ago

Spot on, the prize is worth roughly $4800 dollars in today's money though. That's some serious cash right there.

[–]Chinamerican 0 points1 point ago

It's a party at the Convent Garden (I think it was getting nicer around the late 1800s) so it might seem more like $40 to him assuming he was decently well off enough to go to such a party.

[–]VassiliZaitsev 1 point2 points ago

Covent Garden, but yeah, you're bang on there. To be fair, that's a pretty good side of bacon costume. Considering that most people wouldn't have even seen a side of bacon, never mind owning a turnip in 1894, i'd say the guy is already minted.

[–]Chinamerican 1 point2 points ago

I've never seen a side of bacon either. I know of rashers and Canadian bacon but I actually had to look it up.

[–]justa_flesh_wound 3 points4 points ago

That's where Gaga got the idea for the meat dress

[–]Trav732 0 points1 point ago

I knew she wasn't original!

[–]berlin_a -1 points0 points ago

Damnit! You beat me to it!

[–]cerealpunch -1 points0 points ago

Fuck, me to.

[–]Maybe_for_a_dollar 1 point2 points ago

The best rendetion of "Bohemian Rhapsody" I have ever seen, was sung by a guy in a bacon costume. It makes everything better

[–]I-eat-animals 1 point2 points ago

Then you sir, are retarded.

[–]renboZOM 0 points1 point ago

Amazing... You All know so much about bacon. And here I thought it was just cooked pig meat. I learned something today. What should I do with my knowledge?

[–]moses1er 0 points1 point ago

before gagas bitchass!

[–]Landstander19 0 points1 point ago

Dragoncon 1894

[–]drmrcaptkingpres 0 points1 point ago

i get it, the man has style

[–]Fausto1981 0 points1 point ago

lady gaga, back in the days.

[–]Lamar_Scrodum 0 points1 point ago

Good heavens, that's fancy!

[–]ZombieFaceXP 0 points1 point ago

When does the narwhal bacon? Why, 1894, of course.

[–]VictoryVino 0 points1 point ago

What boggles my mind is he claims to be a side of bacon. The belly has been removed; The bacon is gone.

[–]TruthandJustice4all 0 points1 point ago

MonkE beat me to it but yeah, that, my friends, is what you call a redditor ahead of his time!

[–]1n2n3n4JAZZHANDS 0 points1 point ago

It was the gay nineties. The first generation had come of age in an America where the negroes were free. It was a most joyous time where silliness and gaiety abounded ever so abundantly.

[–]Teotwawki69 0 points1 point ago

But, like 1890s gaiety, and not the modern kind. They saved the modern kind for the late teens and 20s, but then kept it a secret.

[–]grandmacaesar -1 points0 points ago

so...who is "the author" dressed so gaily?

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