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Rasher of bacon found in Worthing Library book

2:00pm Tuesday 22nd September 2009 in


A rasher of bacon was found in a returned book by a Worthing librarian.

The lender had used an object usually found between two slices of bread rather than pages as a bookmark.

This was just one of the oddities artist Dan Thompson, of Lanfranc Road, Worthing, has come across while collecting quirky items found in second-hand and library books for a decade.

Dan's collection includes a wide range of ephemera dating back to the 1940s, including family photographs, concert tickets, a Kevin Keegan soccer card, numerous postcards, including a historic view of the Mersey Tunnel, a map of Hong Kong, a Eurostar ticket, a Lottery ticket, and folded paper, or origami figures.

There is also a small birthday card dated 1942 and a leaflet published by the Jamaica Cricket Association to publicise a match between Pakistan and the West Indies in 1958.

Now they have gone on show at the town's main library in Richmond Road.

There's no sign of any bacon in the glass showcase, but Dan said it was not as unusual as you might think to find a rasher of bacon in a book. A similar inspired this website, bibliobuffet, which lists people who have found rashers in books.

However, Dan has made this bookmark which you can print out and use as many times as you like.

Have you found an unusual item in a book?

Tell us below or email Paul Holden

Comments(17)

KennyKoala says...
2:23pm Tue 22 Sep 09

Somebody's telling a porkie here.

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kumquat says...
2:47pm Tue 22 Sep 09

The only meat you're gonna find in a Len Deighton book, that's for sure.

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Andre Spooner says...
3:43pm Tue 22 Sep 09

This is a shameful practice that must be stopped! I was flicking through a copy of Great Expectations the other day and a whole packet of Pork Scratchings fell out all over my knees. Imagine my distress.

To make matters worse, it made me smell of bacon the whole day - which has a most unsettling effect on my horse. The last person who smelled of bacon was a horse thief. And I tell you now, the last thing Spooner needs is a mistrustful horse.

I spent two hours scouring my legs with a lavender scented brush before me and my mighty horse were reunited. That, truly, is the aroma of companionship and success.

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Wivvy Dave says...
3:56pm Tue 22 Sep 09

Come on give us all the facts - did it have brown sauce on it - what aboout teeth marks? Was it salted or not, was it rindless, did it have the broken ink stamp of "Danish" across the edge? I'll never get to sleep tonight not knowing the answers to these questions.

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johnmil says...
4:14pm Tue 22 Sep 09

This sounds like a poor attempt by a stealth terrorist to try and spread swine flu!

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Masterchav says...
5:25pm Tue 22 Sep 09

What a swine.

I have done rasher things myself though.

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tinkywinky says...
5:28pm Tue 22 Sep 09

I bought a cushion from an antique shop and to my amazement when fluffing it up at home, I found one of Queen Victoria's ****.
I have had the royal chuff vlued by sothebys for two hundred pounds.

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tinkywinky says...
5:30pm Tue 22 Sep 09

tinkywinky wrote:
I bought a cushion from an antique shop and to my amazement when fluffing it up at home, I found one of Queen Victoria's ****. I have had the royal chuff vlued by sothebys for two hundred pounds.
The highly offensive word filtered out by the Argus is F A R T S

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GreenGiant says...
6:53pm Tue 22 Sep 09

This is news.. really? Better then Katie Price thow.

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kkj says...
7:39pm Tue 22 Sep 09

Is it just me or is the Jamaica Cricket association leaflet more interesting than a rasher of bacon?

I'm also intrigued to know why the librarian found it necessary to pass this on to the collector, rather than either dispose of it or eat it.

The most unusual thing i've found in a book has been a dead spider.

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Christophe Hawtree says...
8:27pm Tue 22 Sep 09

This is alarming. It might inspire Brighton libraries to start selling bacon in order to meet "income targets" instead of buying more, and bacon-free, books.

Yes, it looks as if Jubilee Library will get chiller cabinets instead of proper shelves and copies of Animal Farm will come with a 10p-off-bacon voucher.

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Dave Taliban says...
10:38pm Tue 22 Sep 09

I love how clicking the link in this story to go to 'bibliobuffet' takes you straight to....this very webpage.

About as useful as a bookmark made from a cows spleen.


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RickH says...
9:46am Wed 23 Sep 09

You know, a similar thing happened to me today; I opened a copy of my local paper and a load of bulls**t feel out!

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tinkywinky says...
10:09am Wed 23 Sep 09

LOL

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NIck99 says...
1:21pm Wed 23 Sep 09

Reminds me of the time when i used to press beautifull flowers and insects within the pages of books. Aaaahhhhh those were the days.

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CeeBee says...
2:33pm Wed 23 Sep 09

I've found all sorts in library books but this takes the bacon (sorry).

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chickboy69 says...
1:31pm Thu 24 Sep 09

Unread I see. The lender was surely after a copy of Hamlet. I once found some rather off beef between the folds of a Jilly Cooper.

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