What came first – the narwhal or the bacon?

Narwhals have been slowly invading my life. It started out as a bit of a joke… just an earworm that got stuck in my head while I was writing an essay on Mongols which I wrote about here.  Now, everyday people land here after searching any number of the following narwhalesque search terms:

narwhals
narwhals song
narwhals narwhals
how are narwhals born
narwhals song lyrics
narwhals images
cartoon narwhals… and so on and so forth.

Actually I don’t want to think too much about how narwhals are born… do they have those horns at birth?  Or do they grow as they mature?  I shudder to think.  Anyway, now I’ve got friends sending me links to Narwhals stuff now… there’s the Reddit Coat of Arms which of course prominently features both narwhals and bacon –

A friend sent me a link to some narwhal jewelry!  There’s earrings, necklaces, brooches, hair clips, jewelry holders and a whole industry of narwhal fashion accessories cropping up out there –

I even found some strange hand painted narwhal shoes.  Because that’s what a girl really needs…narwhals on your shoes, so when you’re walking along strutting your stuff, you can  look down and think about strange horned sea mammals.

But the best thing I’ve found so far are these – NARWHAL FINGER PUPPETS!  I gotta get me some of these for me, and everyone I know!  Currently available on eBay… 156 sold so far, get ’em while they’re hot!