The Reason We Eat Eggs With Bacon Traces Back To Sigmund Freud - Chowhound

In the 1920s, Edward Bernays was approached by the Beech-Nut Packing Company with a major assignment: Boosting bacon sales. Instead of a traditional marketing campaign based on inundating newspapers with advertisements and coupon deals, Bernays decided to do a little psychoanalysis himself and answer the question, "Why do people eat what they eat?" He figured that people's food choices were driven on some level…