Have a Blast Gifting with Bacon

   Who knew that bacon gifts existed?  Not me!  I would like to share with you the amazing and unique world of bacon gifting!  We all know that bacon isn’t the best thing for us to eat…yes the real bacon.  Not turkey bacon or any other creation that some health nut comes up with.  Pure, fattening pig bacon!  Take it out of the package, lay it in the pan, sprinkle with a bit of seasoning and fry!  Flip a couple of times and you’ve got bacon that drips with fat, crispy and tasting amazing!  Some of us even save the drippings and grizzle for future skillet meals that will add a bit of the flavor, seasoning and crisp finish to your meal.
Anything you can imagine and things you can’t are used as gifts of bacon.  Sure, t-shirts are highly popular and display humorous and frank verses for all of the bacon lovers of the world.  Okay, ready to hear about gifts that are available to the common and serious lover of bacon?  Here ya go!

   - Have a boo-boo?  Cover it up with bacon and eggs band-aids!

    -After you consume the bacon, clean your teeth with bacon flavored floss and toothpicks.

    -Need to freshen up the mouth?  Use bacon mints.

    -After the sports game, your equipment bag stinks!  Use a bacon air freshener in your car.

    -Have fun playing with your kids.  Let the bacon and tofu duke it out!

    - Instead of rubbing your body with bacon in the shower to keep that ever-loving salty scent, use bacon soap.

    -During those winter months, seal your precious lips with bacon chap stick.

    -Tired of never being able to find the black wallet of yours?  Replace it with a bacon wallet.

    -If you are the tighty whitey kind of guy, you must go for the bacon undies.

I bet you didn’t know just how fun bacon could be.  It gets boring gifting people with the same things or same category of things each year.  Go for the gold in trying something new and exiting to gift with.  No matter what the style is (t-shirt, actual meat, wallet, toy, mints, band aids, underwear) you will be able to find exactly what you are looking for.  At the very least, your gift receiver will be full of humor when opening the gift!  Celebrate the pig in everyway you can and choose bacon gifts!




You Had Me at Bacon

I Love Bacon Cinnamon Rolls

 I have to admit when I heard then woman in front of me in line exclaim, “I love bacon cinnamon rolls!” I thought she must be a little bit nutty.  I mean c'mon. Bacon...and cinnamon rolls?  Who puts bacon in a cinnamon roll?  But I guess I'm a little bit behind on the times here.  I wasn't aware that everybody in America was putting bacon into every dish they cook now.  I'll have to hurry to catch up.

Apparently folks are putting bacon into everything.  I've seen recipes for bacon brownies and bacon chocolate chip cookies.  So these bacon cinnamon rolls are not that uncommon I guess.  But chocolate covered bacon?  That sounds like something only a true bacon lover could eat!

I've seen recipes for hot dogs, wrapped in bacon, deep fried, covered in cheese and sprinkled with more bacon bits.  I've seen a recipe for a Bacturduckenon – a whole chicken stuffed with bacon baked inside of a whole duck baked inside of a whole turkey and wrapped with more bacon.  I've seen bacon weaves and even Baconhenge.

I've even seen bacon gifts and T-shirts and Kevin Bacon movie memorabilia.  The whole world has going bacon crazy and I'm just now finding out about it!  There are bacon cocktails made with Bakon vodka.  There are bacon spreads and bacon salts.  There are bacon bandages and even bacon flavored lip gloss!  And I just keep remembering that woman shouting, “I love bacon cinnamon rolls!”  It must be very scary right now to be a pig!


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FoodNetwork's The Best Thing I Ever Ate.....with Bacon

So, the other night - flipping thru the channels, and low and behold the Food Network has a show that each week features a different food, and then interviews all of its top chefs regarding that food. This week it was all about bacon.  I gotta tell ya, there were a LOT of chefs who LOVE BACON.  I especially dig Guy Fieri anyway, and he gives his take on this place in San Diego, called Hodad's -- they apparently have a "big, greasy, run down your arm burger" that Guy states is "burgerlicious".........Then Adam Gertler tells about a place in LA called Father's Office, that has the "Office Burger".  Now this one is a bit different, and Adam literally was drooling all over himself.  This burger is made with Gruyere and blue cheese, bacon, onion compote on a dry aged beef patty.  This is one Chef'd out burger.  Then comes Tyler Florence, he completely raves about this place called Boccalone Salumeria --- Boccalone means "Big Mouth" for all of you non-Italians out there.  Now, this is super cool, this place serves you different types of bacon (your choice of course) in a paper cylinder, similiar to an ice cream cone.  Then you just munch away.  Now, lets discuss dessert, of course Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes guy, gives an outstanding review to a place called Animal, again in LA.  They serve this Chocolate Bacon Crunch Bar -  that, doesn't really sound appealing, but damn it looked good - and he swears that "Nothing should taste this good".

I gotta say tho, what is up with all these Cali restaurants serving the Bacon, like I thought they only ate green stuff out there.  I was totally disappointed and shocked that the Midwest was not represented.  I mean, c'mon, what's up with that? 

You can check out all the places and reviews at http://www.foodnetwork.com/bestthing

Stay Hungry My Friends,
You Had Me at Bacon