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why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?

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And why do we bake cookies but cook bacon?

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Jokes aside, I have baked my bacon and it works really well for preparing an awful lot of bacon very quickly.

Once you do that, you have bacon that you can quickly microwave and slap on a sandwich, plus you can easily collect all of the grease for making gravies or general cooking purposes if you so desire.

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Iโ€™d go so far as to say baking is superior- it never reaches temp to make the oil pop and makes a mess inside the oven, and youโ€™re only limited on how much bacon you can cook by how many cookie sheets you own (and maybe how much bacon you have stored away in the freezer ๐Ÿ˜). Great point on the grease, easy to collect afterwards! Makes great rice!

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A driveway is named because it was originally a circle that you could use to drive right up to the house. Think old mansions in movies.

Parkways had separated lanes with shrubberies and plants on between and around, basically parks with a road through them.

A driveway that is straight and ends in a garage isnโ€™t really a driveway. Separated lanes with no plants or parks isnโ€™t really a parkway. But the names both stuck around.

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The same reason we use ship for a cargo and car for shipping.

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