Bacon Bits
will add a few strips of bacon to my hamburger. Did I mention bacon on my pizza? I guess I am a baconhead! There is comfort in knowing I am not alone, but I have concerns that the trend to baconize everything may leave a bad taste in my mouth.
How could I improve a perfect Bacon/Lettuce/Tomato sandwich? By adding “Baconnaise” the real bacon flavoured mayonnaise of course. Do my lips look cracked and chapped? Don’t worry! I will use some “JD’s Bacon flavoured Lip Balm” and when I am craving bacon from my lip-licking good bacon lip balm, I will enjoy an Elvis sandwich which is a bacon-peanut-butter-banana concoction served on toasted white bread. When I need to remove bits and pieces of an Elvis sandwich from my choppers, I will pull out my bacon flavoured toothpicks or some bacon flavoured dental floss and pick and clean away… Or, I could swish some Bacon flavoured Diet Coke. Yup, a big corporation like Coca Cola saw the wisdom in joining the bacon revolution and have a number of bacon flavoured products. Other biggies like Nabisco with Bacon Ritz Crackers, Ben and Jerry’s with Bacon Vanilla ice-cream, and Lays with Bacon Mac and Cheese potato chips have entered the baconized markets. It seem there will be more corporate baconating.
Bacon and chocolate worked well in our s’mores. In fact, there are thousands of recipes that combine the two flavours in home kitchens. but there are also many prepared baconized desserts available if you are lazy like me. There is a legendary bacon flavoured chocolate bar “Vosages” that uses applewood- smoked bacon dipped in 62% dark chocolate/milk chocolate and then rolled in roasted almond chips. If your mouth is watering like mine, it won’t be when you discover this decadent treat will cost you 12 bucks a bar plus shipping. Bacon flavoured cupcakes are a rage but I know a guy who got a bacon cake for his birthday, just a regular chocolate cake that was airbrushed to look like bacon. It’s the thought that counts.
After some bacon flavoured desserts, a baconhead might want to sip some Bakon Vodka or some Bacon flavoured whiskey mixed with bacon flavoured Diet Coke. Care for an after dinner mint? There are a plethora of bacon candies available including bacon mints, bacon jellybeans, bacon gummi strips, bacon suckers, bacon gumballs…well you get the idea. In reality, guess I am a baconhead! I will try anything new with a comfortable flavour…bacon. Are you a baconhead, too?