Bacon Freak Blog

Let’s say your son has been away to college for a year or two. He’s out of the dorms and on to apartment living, sharing space with other eager students, staying up late cramming for tests, and foraging for food. If there’s one thing I remember about my college days, it’s that I was hungry. ALWAYS hungry. Giving up the cafeteria meal plan was hard, and led to many late night calls to the pizza delivery guy. My friends and I practically drained our bank accounts on crummy fast food. That’s why giving the gift of bacon may just make you a hero to your kid and his roommates!

Outlets like BaconFreak.com make giving a smoky, delicious gift basket both easy and fun. You can give anything from two pounds of bacon to a basket crammed with meats, pancakes, seasonings and even apparel! But if you really want to go for the win, try a bacon-of-the-month club. That scholar of yours will wait with baited breath to see which unique bacon flavor awaits him in his mailbox each month. Not only does everyone love getting a package, but come on! It’s bacon! And, if he didn’t call regularly before, this gift will guarantee your phone rings at least once a month…he’ll be thanking you all year long.

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Well, as we all know, science has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that
most truly classy and intelligent “Human Beings” are absolutely obsessed
with the flavor of bacon!

Therefore, it only makes sense that there would be so many fun, tasty and
totally “off the wall” bacon flavored novelty items available out there to
continually allure our interests.

The first one that ever caught my attention and got me to “bite” was the old
original “Bacon Flavored Breath Mints” which don’t taste exactly like bacon,
any more than grape soda tastes exactly like grapes. But, clearly enough
people out there really do seem to like them a lot, judging by how popular
of an item they are.

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I have been featuring the wonderful bacon of Broadbent Hams over the past two years. They have come top of mind with the recent Tomato scare. After all as an official bacon freak I need my daily BLT for Lunch. Well with no tomatos how am I supposed to make a Bacon Lettuce and Tomato sandwich? Ah at last the solution hit me, the wonderful bacon of Broadbent Hams, Sun Dried Tomato. This bacon has a uuniquely sweet tomato flavor and is a must for the low carb dieter.

Broadbent Hams has been in business since the mid 1960’s. Since 1999 they have won the Kentucky State Fair over 5 times, including the Fancy Food Show of New York twice. Rodney Drennan states that, “They try and make the best bacon they can” I guess he doesn’t like to brag. They also hold the current record for the largest raffleled / auctioned Grand Champion Ham at $500,000.00 dollars – that ham sold for $29,000.00 a pound – what a great donation to charity!

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Well hello to you, my fellow “Baconistas!”

Today I want to share with you an innovative and inventive San Francisco based candy company owned by Jason Lewis that I find worthy of our attention because they seem to truly enjoy playfully experimenting with some really original, unusual and highly unexpected flavors and flavor combinations.

The name of the company is “Lollyphile.” For those of you who it’s just too early in the morning to decipher the meaning behind the name, that’s “Lolly” as in lollipop and “phile” as in someone that loves or has a strong affinity or preference for something.

They formed the company right around Halloween of 2007 and started off with a strangely flavored lollipop designed specifically to remind the world that “Absinthe” makes the heart grow fonder!” Yep, an absinthe lollipop, and why not?

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