Bacon Freak Blog

The ever popular Westside, New York burger joint, “The Shake Shack” successfully taught all of the high paid Wall Street financial gurus, marketing advisors and business experts a thing or two about the power of simple “Buzz Marketing” and the law of supply and demand.

When the restaurant found themselves with an excessively large supply of “specialty bacon” left over from a big “Pancake and Custard: promotion they had been running, Manager Mark Rosati wisely utilized the proverbial wisdom of the old assaying, “When you have lemons, make Lemonade!”

This time, what manager Rosati had, was NOT lemons, but a ton of gourmet bacon left sitting around in the restaurant. So in a way that would have made Elvis Pressley proud, except for the fact that he forgot the bananas, Rosati quickly devised a recipe for “Peanut Butter Bacon Burgers,” … and a STAR was born.

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A very wise man, a long, long time ago once said “The Hand That ROCKS the BACON … Rules The World!”

Now, as the economic downturn really begins to sink in and take a “Big Bite” out of the recently flourishing, “fine dining” restaurant profits, the upper echelon of franchise dining are finely looking around and trying to get their bearings once again. They are suddenly realizing that as the economy take its toll; “sizzlingly successful” ideas continue to roll.

It seems that every single fast food franchise that wise returns back to the “Bacon Rule” and introduces it’s latest 1 to 5 new Bacon Burgers to their menu, suddenly increases their market share substantially and moves closer to the head of the heard.

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I don’t know if you all have seen the recent commercial by Jack in the Box, that says, “Bacon makes everything better, especially bacon.”

This got me thinking, is there anything that isn’t better with bacon?

Hamburgers, better with bacon. Steaks and scallops better when wrapped in bacon. Eggs so much better with bacon. Salad, add some bacon and its better. Baked potatoes again, you guessed it better with bacon.

Bacon can add a variety of different flavors that brings any dish to that next level weather you are cooking for yourself or family and friends. Bacon can be sweet, it can be savory, it can be Smokey, it can be flavored, but whatever food you are cooking up, it is better with bacon.

Bacon has this unique ability to go with so many of the everyday foods that we eat.

Because we all agree that bacon has a magical ability to make almost any food better (lets face it you are reading a blog all about bacon), why not keep your kitchen well stocked with a variety of different bacon products.

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OMG … it looks like Carl’s Jr. (http://www.carlsjr.com) has done it again my fellow “Baconistas!”

While all of the “fast food” giants are desperately trying to impress a world gone crazy with “Baco-Mania” by coming up with more and more complex and clever creations based on the average “Bacon Freak’s” (http://www.baconfreak.com) obsession with bacon, Carl’s Jr. has quite wisely chosen to take that path less traveled and move further and further toward absolute simplicity.

So while many of its competitors continue on the path of constantly tossing more and more elaborate ingredients onto their burgers, Carl’ has effectively broken the magic formula down to it’s essential basic, fundamental, foundational “bacon blueprint” of consummate, consumable simplicity.

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