Apr 09
Setting foot on the moon for the first time was perhaps one of the biggest technological, scientific and political achievements of our age. So what better way to celebrate, after exploring that new lunar landscape, than with bacon?
Mar 08
Bacon Alarm Clock Is the Best Thing Oscar Mayer Has Ever Done (Besides that Song)
Posted in: Today's ChiliMy alarm clock has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R… my alarm clock has a second name, it’s M-A-Y-E-R. You will surely recognize the name Oscar Mayer as the company that makes more lunch and breakfast meats than you can shake a stick at. The company also makes bacon, which is the best food in the history of food.
Oscar Mayer has a new hardware and app combo for the iPhone that will wake you to the sounds and smell of frying bacon.
It’s not going to make you bacon like the Bacon Alarm Clock we talked about before. Instead, the Oscar Mayer app uses a cartridge that attaches to the bottom of the iPhone and produces the scent of bacon to wake you up. I’m not sure how I feel about that tease. The other issue is that you can’t just buy this thing. A limited number of them are being given away to people who take a quiz on the Oscan Mayer website. Those who win the dongle and app combo will get an extra vial of bacon scent. I guess once you run out of scent, you can’t get refills short of squeezing your own bacon juice.
We really love bacon around my house. I have spread that love for bacon to my kids too. My daughter even used crispy crunchy bacon to illustrate her food chain quiz recently in school. She is a genius.
[via Mashable]
Mar 06
This could, quite possibly, be the greatest way to wake up, EVER! Oscar Mayer has created a device that attaches to your iPhone and when paired with the app, you will wake to the smell of frying bacon. Considering that we put bacon on and in everything anymore; doughnuts, sandwiches, bacon wrapped dates……Oscar Mayer apparently caught onto how much everyone loves the fried strips of heaven. The #bacon hashtag gets over 2 million mentions every year on Twitter.
You want one, admit it. The only way to get one is to go to their website and apply for one. They are not for sale, and the winners will be chosen at random. You can only apply from March 3 to April 4, 2014, so get on it. They have uploaded an artistic video to help promote the device, from roses made of bacon to a menu at a restaurant that has nothing but bacon on the menu, the video is there to tickle your senses. You can bet we will be applying for one of these incredible little mouth watering devices.
Jan 31
Ideally, what would you put in your beer? If you said, maple, bacon and coffee, then your dreams have come true my inebriated brother.
This Porter beer by Funky Buddha Brewery should make you very very happy. All of those flavors in a beer should add up to a very delightful drink. Here’s how they describe it:
Evoking a complete diner-style breakfast in a glass, Maple Bacon Coffee Porter is a complex beer with a multitude of flavors at play. It pours an opaque ebony brew with a frothy tan head. Aromas of sticky maple syrup, coffee, and cream creep forth from the glass. The mouth feel is luxuriously creamy, with layers of sweet malt, toffee, and roast giving way to waves of smoke, coffee, and salted chocolate. It finishes sticky, rich, and sweet, with the flavor of maple syrup lingering pleasantly on the tongue.
Well sign me up. Unfortunately, I don’t know if or when this beer will be available outside of their brewpub locations, but the company’s website should soon have the answers.
Jan 27
If you are as big a fan of crispy, crunchy bacon as I am all you will need to hear is this- Bacon Soap. If you need a bit more explanation, here it is. ThinkGeek has some hand soaps in bars that smell like manly food and drink. The hand soaps are available in three scents; the bacon scent we have seen before.
Made by Outlaw Soaps, the set of three scents include bacon, coffee, and whiskey. I can get behind the bacon-scented soap, it even looks like bacon with the red and white marbling. The coffee soap makes sense too, while I hate the taste of coffee, it smells pretty good.
The whiskey soap is the questionable one to me. I can only imagine explaining to a cop that pulls you over and smells whiskey that you just took a bath.
Nov 26
Bacon deodorant changes your body odor into bacon odor, making everyone around you hungry for a good breakfast. Hey, when you are sweating like a pig, you might as well smell like one.
Bacon Power stick deodorant is made with bits of real bacon, so you know it works. Fat men and dogs will follow you like the Pied Piper, but it’s worth it to smell good. However, cannibalism may be a problem. If you find yourself shipwrecked on an island with others or among other survivors of a plane crash, throw it as far away from you as possible if you want to live.
It is only $9.99(USD) from J & D’s. Don’t just smell good, smell delicious!
[via This Is Why I’m broke]
Nov 24
You Can Buy Bacon Deodorant
Posted in: Today's Chili
The bacon-everything craze has mostly passed, thankfully, and things seem to be getting back to normal. The constant barrage of bacon Band-Aids and bacon office supplies is over. Bacon personal care products are apparently another story, though.
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Oct 08
You don’t have to be an outlaw to appreciate the unusual soaps that Outlaw Soaps churns out. This time around, they’ve taken everyone’s favorite breakfast staple and have turned it into a must-have for showers and bathrooms worldwide.
Each bar – or rather, slab – of bacon soap looks good enough to eat. It’s dyed and shaped to resemble actual bacon, but you’ll be pleased to hear that no actual bacon was used in making it. The soap is loaded with natural, vegan ingredients including coconut oil, avocado oil, and castor oil, leaving you with smooth skin after you rinse off the aromatic lather.
Every slab of bacon soap is wrapped in a rustic burlap bag to complete the “this-just-came-from-the-butcher” effect. They’re available for pre-order for $12(USD).
[via The Awesomer]
Oct 02
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, bacon is proof God loves us. Crispity, crunchity bacon is easily my favorite food. The problem is a lot of people want you to believe bacon is bad for you. We can thank science for a new study that bacon lovers around the world can now use as proof that salty cured meats are good for you.
The study was conducted by researchers at ETH Zürich and revealed that niacin, also known as vitamin B3, can help you live longer. Bacon has a good amount of niacin therefore making it the perfect food for prolonging your life. The study also says the disgusting European food Marmite is a good source of vitamin B3 as are sun-dried tomatoes and peanuts.
I wonder if a bacon and marmite sandwich will automatically reverse aging? During the study the researchers fed roundworms foods high in niacin and discovered the worms that ate high concentrations of niacin lived 1/10 longer than other roundworms that weren’t fed vitamin B3. Here’s the best sentence of the entire study, Prof Michael Ristow said , “Niacin tricks the body into believing that it is exercising – even when this is not the case.” Clearly, he is saying that if you eat enough bacon, you don’t need exercise, right?
Of course, there are many healthier ways to get your niacin than from bacon, but I can dream, can’t I?
[via Geekosystem]
Aug 29
Two of my favorite things in all the world are cars and bacon. I think bacon is the reason God put pigs on earth and the man who invented bacon should be immortalized on Mount Rushmore. I also happen to think that the Ford Fiesta is one of the least attractive cars on the market.
However, I do like bacon and Ford has announced some custom bacon graphics specifically for the 2014 Fiesta. The most bacontastic of the wraps is the one you see in the image above – showing 12 salty and crispy slices of bacon spread all around the car. That is a somewhat over the top representation of your love for salty pork in my book.
Ford does have a few other bacon graphics that you can add to your car if you’re looking for something a little more subtle. My favorite are the bacon racing stripes, a pair of bacon strips that you can place on the hood of your Fiesta that resemble classic dual racing stripes.
Ford also offers the side of bacon graphics with two individual strips of bacon wrapped over the rear wheels. Ford created these bacon themed wraps in celebration of International Bacon Day. Yes, that is the official holiday for bacon, which happens on August 31 each year.
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