10 Things That Have Been Completely Ruined In 2015

10. Bacon

This was a rough year for everyone's favourite breakfast meat/hangover cure/sandwich filling/food most likely to break the will of a faltering vegetarian. The last decade has seen bacon love reach near fetish levels in the UK and America, with every product from toothpaste to crisps to beer (so, all the food groups) now available in bacon-flavour. In a time when religious engagement is decreasing, bacon became a unifying force around which we could all unite (unless you're Jewish, Muslim, Seventh-Day Adventist, vegetarian, pescatarian... alright, maybe only carnivorous atheists could unite but that's still a sizable chunk of people). But in 2015, the bacon-for-leader contingent were struck with two blows in a row, a one-two punch from which they may never recover. First, in September, came "Piggate", the lazy term for the accusation that British Prime Minister David Cameron had, while at university, engaged in an initiation ceremony that required him to (there's no delicate way of saying this) place his penis into a dead pig's head. Allegedly. ALLEGEDLY. But even if it's only alleged, it's going to put you off your morning fry-up, right? And while we were recovering from the image of a world leader sexually communing with a farmyard animal, the World Health Organisation decided to make bacon even less palatable. In October, the WHO announced that consuming bacon and other cured meat products was likely to increase your risk of cancer. So, to recap, our favourite food not only reminds us of one of the creepiest posh-people stories ever told, it's also crazy carcinogenic? Say goodbye to flavour but hello to healthier bowels in 2016.