whatever sizzles your bacon

Do what you feel like, and hope that it sticks. If it doesn’t, throw it again. Maybe it sticks the next time over. And if it doesn’t, who cares? It’s just one insignificant life wasted in the vast ocean of lives all around. Whatever floats your boat, whatever melts your butter, whatever humps your camel, whatever sizzles your bacon, whatever tickles your pickle…

2008 May 14, Karan Bajaj, “It’s All a Waste”, in Keep off the Grass, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India; India Today Group, →ISBN, pages 15–16

‘[…] We’ll have a big night out. Whole office. All on me. You make the arrangements.’ / ‘Er . . . what sort of arrangements?’ / ‘What sort of arrangements? Hey, you’re the content guy, right?’ / ‘Er, right.’ Taras said. / ‘So then. Whatever you guys like doing. Whatever sizzles your bacon.[…]’

2010 March 4, Penny Rudge, chapter 22, in Foolish Lessons in Life and Love, large print edition, Anstey, Leicestershire: Charnwood, →ISBN, page 157

‘We’re looking forward to having him. He’s top of his class in the junior school.’ / ‘Well, if I had my way, he’d be going somewhere else – somewhere that still plays rugby. But his mother thinks this place would be better for his education. It’s, like, whatever sizzles your bacon.’

2010 October 7, Paul Howard, “Sei parte ormai di me”, in The Oh My God Delusion (Ross O’Carroll-Kelly; 10), Dublin: Penguin Ireland, →ISBN, page 270

"I was wondering if you would let me maybe do a little baking and, ah, cooking, and maybe some… decorating?" I asked, each word more and more hesitant than the last. / "Babe, whatever sizzles your bacon. Do it up. But you gotta make enough cookies for me.[…]"

2016 December 8, Jessica Gadziala, “Lyra”, in Unwrapped, →ISBN, page 36