Bacon Makes It a Little Better
I was about to get into our car this morning when I noticed that someone had creased the hell out of the driver’s side door. No note from anyone accepting responsibility.
Fortunately, I was on my way to breakfast. An extra order of bacon takes the edge off.
Bacon Wrapped Twinkie Stonehenge
Thanks to Bill for calling my attention to this tragic waste of perfectly good bacon.
Bacon: A Love Story
I was rooting around the web for some tasty bacony morsels to share with you all when I came across Bacon Unwrapped.
In looking around, I found that the blogger, Heather Lauer, has a book coming out called “Bacon: A Love Story
Baconnaise in John Stewart on The Daily Show
After the Onion’s generally positive review of Bacconaise, we need to give equal time to John Stewart on The Daily Show.
He takes strong issue with both the taste of Bacconaise Lite (“I think my tounge just took a shit”):
and also what Bacconaise says about American character:
The Onion on Baconnaise
Last month, the Onion AV club followed up their taste test of Bacon Salt with a taste test of Baconnaise. Their findings were mixed. They found it more authentically Bacon flavored than Bacon Salt:
After the general bitching about how Bacon Salt tasted more like Bacos than bacon, we expected Baconnaise to taste like Bacos in mayo, but Baconnaise is actually much richer and more bacony by far than Bacon Salt.
But that wasn’t an unequovocal good thing:
It’s so rich and meaty that it’s actually a bit overwhelming both in smell and flavor. It should probably be used more moderately than we used it, and maybe cut with regular or light mayonnaise for recipe purposes.
One of their staffers summed up his objections to Baconnaise by crontrasting it with what is wonderful about real bacon:
Scott Tobias came through toward the end and delivered an entire polemic on the concept of Baconnaise: “The fun of bacon is that it’s crispy and it has a texture. You put bacon and mayo together, and you have a winning combination. But bacon needs to exist as something to chew on, not something that lingers in your mouth as some horrible… it shouldn’t be a chemical aftertaste. It’s real food. I want bacon, not a bacon aftertaste.
While voicing sympathy with that point of view, the writers still found that Baconnaise had its merits:
And you know what? We agree with him. But we still think Baconnaise is a pretty genius idea, and it won about the closest thing to A.V. Club taste-test approval we’ve seen from something that wasn’t entirely made out of sugar.
The satircal wing of the American popular media is by no means united though. John Stewart doesn’t like what it symbolizes, or how how it tastes.
