Is “bacon” offensive?

In one of those stories that seems to exist only to provide talk radio with fodder, a Vermont restaurant took down an advertising sign promoting their bacon after a Muslim woman complained that it was offensive. The Sneakers Bistro in Woonsocki, Vermont the sign promoting Sneakers bacon after a woman wrote and said the sign was offensive to those who don’t eat pork, and that she was personally offended.

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Believe it or not, the business owners took down the sign voluntarily and say they regret any harm the sign caused. Harm? What is possibly harmful about a sign advertising a legal product enjoyed by millions of people? Here in New Jersey we have plenty of Jewish people who don’t eat pork, but I don’t see them picketing the local Shop-Rite or Acme to get them to stop advertising it. This has to be the silliest protest I’ve ever heard of.