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Bacon Soap

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For Christmas, I got my brother an extra special gift, that only he could truly appreciate. I had soap custom-made to smell like bacon. And further more, this wasn’t just any old soap, but special oatmeal goat’s milk honey soap to help with dry skin.

It was pretty awesome, when I got the package in the mail, you could smell the bacon-smell rolling off of it. I don’t know if he’s tried them yet or not, maybe he can answer in the comments.

So anyway, if you need any custom-made soaps or body products, especially those that smell like bacon, you can check out the Natural Soap Shanty. I can vouch for both the products and the owner! 🙂 (She’s Sara’s cousin, but more importantly, she’s both a reader and commenter on this blog!)

Bacon in 2020

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Now tell me, where do they come up from this stuff? From a list entitled, “Here Today, Horrible Tomorrow: Which Fads Won’t Survive The Next 10 Years?”

Bacon: You know how everyone makes fun of old recipes from the 50s and 60s, pointing out the nastiness of gelatin salads and such? Or how everyone rolls their eyes when the fat free fad of the 90s is brought up? That will be the 2020 reaction to bacon: “Ugh, remember when everyone put bacon on everything?” Believe it.

WRONG!

Unless there is some sort of taste calamity in the next 10 years, wherein the taste buds of all of the citizens of the world are destroyed, this is a ridiculous statement. Bacon can’t go out of style. That’s like saying breathing will go out of style, or watching Fresh Prince reruns. Bacon tastes good, always has tasted good, always will taste good. FACT.

Speaking of bacon, over vacation I got to try some real bacon and pork sausage, straight from the hog. My uncle raised some pigs and my mom bought some of the pork. We’re talking some authentic stuff here, I met those pigs before I ate them.

It was awesome. The sausage was hands down the best sausage I have ever had. I don’t know how it was seasoned, etc. and I know that has a lot to do with it, but all I can tell you is that it was amazing. The bacon was very good, but very unexpected. It doesn’t taste like bacon that you buy from the store. The up-front taste was much milder, but the flavor was back-loaded. I thought it was really good, but I could see some people not liking it quite as much.

So, in summary, to claim bacon is going out of style is ludicrous, but you might as well use it as an excuse to eat bacon as if it were going out of style.

Mmmvelopes

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J&D’s, the makers of bacon salt, continue to make good on their promise “Everything should taste like bacon”. Including, apparently, the adhesive on the flap of envelopes. I give you, Mmmvelopes.

Proclaiming it as a radical change in 4,000 year-old envelope-flavor technology, they write: “No longer will envelopes taste like the underside of your car. You can enjoy the taste of delicious bacon instead.”

I strongly support this cause and the general overall philosophy that everything should taste like bacon. I approve of this message.

(I think the link was sent by both Jackie and Meg…I forget who sent it first. Just goes to show you I should blog these things sooner.)

This is why you’re fat – Thanksgiving Edition

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I have mentioned the most excellent blog This is Why You’re Fat. Since today is the most grandiose this-is-why-you’re-fat holiday of them all, someone did a nice roundup of some ridiculous food items you may want to consider for your holiday feast. You can read the whole article, with wonderful pictures of each food item, or you can just read my summary below and click on anything that seems particularly delicious.

And by the way, I don’t appreciate the implication that taking any item and putting bacon on it is somehow over the top. More delicious, of course, but some of these are more inspired than others.

Link via Anna.

Bacon Updates from my Field Reporters

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First up is a step-by-step how-to for making bacon soap with real bacon fat. Some people might think that is gross, but I’m on board with this. Most bacon stuff smells like fake bacon, which is gross and artificial, and nothing like real bacon. So I’m guessing this stuff would be way better.

Next up is Skillet Bacon Jam which I have not tried, but continues to get good reviews. If I had to try one strange bacon product right now, this would be at the top of my list. (Although, sorry Meg, I did mention it back in July)

And finally, as my field reporter said, “Because anything edible can be made of bacon. I’m waiting for the bacon wedding cake. Oh wait…”

Yes, there is a bacon wedding cake.

I especially like the little bacon bride and groom on top.

Links via my bacon-related-eyes-and-ears-in-Oslo.

Whoa, late breaking news from a second bacon field reporter! Tonight at 9 p.m. in Seattle, the Bacathalon! According to the website, this will be “the world’s first bacon-themed multi-sport athletic event” including “an attempt to set an unbreakable World Record for Bacon Eating”. To top it off, proceeds go to a children’s cancer charity. Give me one good reason not to attend this event (other than “I don’t live in Seattle” of course)!

Link via my bacon-related-eyes-and-ears-in-Seattle.