Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul, 76

I loved her music! So sorry to hear that she has passed.

My Dad will be enjoying her singing up high!

Get artist, she'll be missed.

76 is pretty young too. I watched her Kennedy Center performance of Carole King's song again yesterday. She really could move an audience.

i'll never watch the Blues Brothers movie the same way...how sad

Vanessa Marquez, actress - age 49

I didn't recognize the name until I read the story, but she had a recurring role as a nurse on ER for a few seasons. Apparently the police were performing a welfare check and it went tragically wrong.

Wow, so sad!!

Dorcas Reilly, Campbell's Test Kitchen - age 92

Dorcas was the lead on the team that created the green bean casserole recipe that appeared on the cream of mushroom soup can. Her recipe card for the dish was presented to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002.

That is one vile legacy, poor thing.

Hey, I actually like that casserole!

Sorry.

Anything with cream of mushroom soup in it is gross.

there should be a Mt. Rushmore of food pioneers;

1) the person who invented bacon (but not turkey bacon)
2) the person who first decided to wrap something in bacon (unless it was vegetables because that's just a waste of bacon)
3) the person who first decided to use bacon as an ingredient (such as adding it to deviled eggs, stuffed chicken breasts, etc.)
4) Kevin Bacon

Peepers, I like your thinking on this bacon monument..

We need a "but not turkey sausage" addendum too please....really ticks me off when someone offers sausage and come to find out, it's turkey sausage. Blech.

I haven't had the turkey bacon experience and hopefully never will.

I asked the wife what she was watching on TV last week and she said "Footloose", Sadly it was also missing Bacon

Turkey and chicken sausages can be really good. Turkey bacon is just garbage.

What ever happened to the name Dorcas? That should make a comeback.

I can think of one reason. As that young lady made her way through the American education system, there would be bullies who shortened her name (and no doubt would substitute that name often). In my own experience, my first name wasn't shortened, it just rhymed too easily with a mucous-like substance.

my brothers and I often refer to each other as "dorkus"...does that count?

Never heard that name before. My last name was turned into all sorts of things...most of them non-offensive

I've had turkey bacon...it wasn't that bad.

The only turkey sausage i've ever had (breakfast sausage) was totally nasty.

Never had turkey sausage to my knowledge...I would think the texture would be horrid.

Turkey bacon and sausage isn't that bad. No, it's not full flavor like anything made with pork. However, it's an acceptable substitute for those who can't have pork. Back in the day, pork was the first thing on the restricted list for heart patients like my Dad. He was thrilled when Mom found turkey bacon. I prefer turkey hot dogs to regular. Don't need to be eating all those pig pieces parts including snouts.