Yummy, Yummy Bacon and Other Stuff

A really interesting, albeit short, article in the Wall Street Journal last week about how food trends start. Here’s an excerpt:

Bacon. It’s everywhere. Wendy’s features it in the “Baconator” and Paula Deen crumbles it into quiche. Ditto for those deluxe cupcakes top-heavy with frosting. Is there a bakery or supermarket that doesn’t sell them?

Bacon and cupcakes — like sliders, bubble tea, popsicles, food trucks and chipotle — have caught on from coast to coast.

But how?

How indeed.  Click on through, it’s a good read with a great quote from Ted Allen at the end.

Originally posted 2011-03-21 12:09:45.

Why them’s some big balls you got there Chief! And bacon flavored to boot…

Big ups to FotDB Seth (SHOUT OUT) for the image.

Have a great day everyone.  We’ll be back later with “Top Chef“…

Originally posted 2010-06-24 08:50:20.

Archie McPhee has long been leading the charge in the development of bacon flavored products and now you can get just about all their wonders just with simple mouse click…

It’s the Bacon Collection featuring:

• Bacon Floss
• Mr. Bacon Air Freshner
• Bacon Soap
• Bacon Mints
• Bacon Toothpaste
• Bacon Drink Tabs
• Bacon Lip Balm
• Bacon Toothpicks
• Bacon Gumballs
• Bacon Band-aids
• Bendy Mr. Bacon
• and the BRAND NEW Bacon Lollipop

Seriously, what are you waiting for?  Get this, pick up some wrapping paper, and make that bacon fan in your life happy!!

via Archie McPhee

Originally posted 2011-03-18 11:00:18.

From last night’s Saturday Night Live…

“If you enjoy cozy atmosphere, excellent service and healthy servings of pig meat accompanied by sparkling wines…”

It was a good sketch, but not quite as good as his previous effort…

“Mmmm, that’s good ham!”

All and all not a bad episode last night, a few good spots and a solid “Weekend Update“…but John Hamm is quickly becoming a solid go-to guy for SNL.

Originally posted 2010-01-31 14:06:31.

After yesterday’s abomination I thought we’d go a little artsy, an little trippy on you…

Look at that lovely flying frying bacon.  Oh wait…

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Originally posted 2011-08-09 20:15:35.

In the few short weeks of this blogs existence, we have begun a few reoccurring “features” such as “Nerd News”, “Goin’ to the Market”, and “Makin’ Bacon”.  Today, we start something new…”Better with Bacon”.  “Better with Bacon” will call out a new recipe each week! I will be surfin’ the interwebs through my google machine to find what I deem as the tastiest of the tasty and then post them here each Tuesday.

To follow up on “Better with Bacon”, I am also introducing “Test Kitchen” where I get my behind into the kitchen and make one of the posted recipes.  This feature won’t have a set day due to my travel schedule at work, but I will try to feature something I made every two weeks.

So, let’s “officially” kick this off with:

Maple Bacon Cupcakes!!! [Read more →]

Originally posted 2009-02-25 12:41:52.

This is a billboard for Ranfurly Frontier Lager in New Zealand.  The concept is that in the near future real men are close to extinction.  The very last of these men now reside in the Ranfurly Man Park where they are once again free to live the rest of their days “as nature intended”.

I’m not feeling the overall campaign concept and execution, but I must admit that truer words have never appeared on any billboard I have ever seen.

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Originally posted 2011-01-20 21:29:59.

Bacon candies!

What did you think I meant?  REALLY?!? That’s what you thought? Get your mind out of the gutter.

Anywho, the fine folks at Archie McPhee have done it again.  There is nothing they won’t make taste like bacon!

From their site:

These red and white striped hard candies look just like the ones that grandma used to put in her fancy candy dish for the holidays. But, my oh my, would grandma be in for a surprise if she popped one in her mouth!

Oh my indeed.

$5.95 for a tin with about 12 pieces of candy.

via Archie McPhee

Originally posted 2011-09-12 19:46:50.

If you are french, a french chef or fan of “Top Chef“ this may rub you the wrong way.

And as for bacon recipes this one may be a stretch…but the recipe does include bacon and crock pot cooking is supposed to be easy…

Catch the recipe after the jump. [Read more →]

Originally posted 2010-03-01 19:41:38.

This banner ad creative for Pringles is brilliant! It recently won a gold Cyber Lion at Cannes and I can see why the judges liked it, what great execution.  Is it effective in selling potato chips, I don’t know.  I do know that it is incredibly engaging and had me interacting with their brand for over 3 minutes.  A lot of marketers would kill for that level of exposure, especially those in packaged goods.

Seriously, start clicking and see if you can’t stop!

 

[via AdFreak]

Originally posted 2009-07-07 11:54:48.