Can a rocket be made of bacon?

You know you’ve always wanted to know the answer. The Rather Good team provides the proof.

Austin, TX based graphic designer Brady Clark has created a couple prints that true bacon lovers should have hanging on their walls.

These beautiful pieces celebrate nature’s meat candy with glorious design & color and are only available in very limited editions.

The Thank ‘Que print is 24″ wide by 18″ tall and is printed on #130 Cougar natural stock. This special print is signed and numbered and is limited to 100 in the first edition.

The Amen print is 9″ wide by 24″ tall and is printed on #130 Cougar natural stock. This awesome print is signed & numbered and is limited to 100 in the first edition.

Order your bacon prints today!

The Delta Diner is a fun little spot in the middle of the northern Wisconsin woods with a quirky menu and amazingly attentive staff. They have quite a few bacon items on the menu but I opted to test out the PBLT (Perch – a local freshwater fish, Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato) sandwich for this taste test.

I hesitate to be so bold, but on first bite the PBLT joined my all-time sandwich top five. The perch was fried with a light and tasty batter, the tomatoes were perfectly ripe, the lettuce was from-the-garden fresh, the bread lightly toasted, the secret sauce tangy, and the bacon – heavenly. The three think and perfectly cooked strips of bacon were smoked locally from Ashland, Wisconsin’s Sixth Street Market and some of the best bacon I’ve ever tasted…and I’ve tasted a heck of a lot of bacon. Lucky for me I live a few blocks for the Sixth Street Market — look for a profile of their bacon in the near future.

Bottom line, if you’re ever in Northern Wisconsin or Minnesota make your way to the Delta Diner. I hear there’s a bacon steak there that is a bacon lover’s dream come true. I’m grabbing my car keys now to go give it a try…

If you’re in the midwest and the early morning hunger pangs hit you, head on over to Hardees for a quick & affordable bacon fix. It’s the Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Biscuit and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by this small sandwich.

Hardees touts it as:

“Folded egg, slices of crispy bacon and American cheese all on a freshly baked Made from Scratch™ buttermilk biscuit.”

As far as breakfast fast food on the road goes this one really hits the spot. The bacon was above average for a fast food joint, the eggs & cheese were tasty and the biscuit was delicious. Definitely recommended when you’re on the run!

I was helping my grandfather clean out his refrigerator this weekend. Out with the old, in with the new.

We tossed out the expired salad dressings, the old mustard, and some questionable jams & jellies.

Then I spotted something that had one of the world’s most wonderful words emblazoned upon it’s label — BACON.

Under “BACON” it said “Cheese Snack Spread”. I was intrigued. Unfortunately, this curious treat was well past it’s expiration date so I may never know if the bacon flavor was any good at all.

Has anyone tried this? Inquiring minds want to know.

Touted by West Coast fast food restaurant Carl’s Jr. as “Charbroiled 100% Black Angus beef topped with crispy bacon, slices of melted Swiss and American cheese, and mayonnaise served on toasted sourdough bread,” we’re slightly suspicious as to the 6-dollar worthiness of this particular sandwich.

While we’ve enjoyed Carl’s Jr. bacon burgers in the past, we’re not so sure the Grilled Cheese Bacon Six Dollar Burger™ with all that cheese, sourdough bread, and a big beef patty are going to allow the bacon taste to shine through.

Have you tried this burger? Let us know how it tasted and if it was worthy of the 6-dollar moniker!

The people of Canada sure love their bacon. In a recent survey conducted by Maple Leaf Foods, 43% of the respondents said they would rather have bacon than sex. Are you surprised? If you’re a daily reader of Bacon Today the answer is probably no. In fact, you’re probably asking a question of your own — Canadian or Traditional bacon? Sadly, the survey was not that specific.

Some other interesting findings in the survey:

• Move over High Karate…23% of men ranked bacon as their number one favorite fragrance
• Four out of five respondents (82%) who said they love bacon also said they are good lovers
• Nearly one in four of respondents (23%) wondered if ‘my partner loves bacon more than me’

How about you? If you had to chose, would your choice be bacon or sex? Hmmmm….

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About the Maple Leaf For the Love of Bacon survey:
From December 1 to December 2, 2009, Angus Reid Public Opinion conducted a survey among 1,006 randomly selected Canadian adults who are Angus Reid Forum panelists. The margin of error – which measures sampling variability – is +/- 3.1%. The results of the online survey have been statistically weighted according to the most current education, age, gender and region Census data to ensure samples representative of the entire adult population of Canada.

Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31796655@N07/2974942783/

Allan has been running the business for over 30 years now and has achieved a great deal of attention and recognition for his scrumptious creations. In fact, Esquire Magazine called Benton’s the “world’s best bacon” in their August 17, 2009 online article. (NOTE: although Bacon Today certainly doesn’t endorse Esquire Magazine as an authority on bacon, we’re sure Benton’s is mighty tasty)

Benton has a genuine love for the work he does. “When somebody calls me on the phone and says, ‘Oh my, this ham or this bacon was absolutely incredible,’ it makes it so easy to get up and come to work the next morning.” All we can say is thank goodness for folks like Allan Benton. They keep the world supplied with that sweet, sweet bacon we all love so dearly.

For photos and more details, see the full story at:
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=112928&catid=2

You may have seen the Denny’s Super Bowl ad (if you haven’t, we’ve saved you the trouble of looking for it and embedded the Denny’s Super Bowl commercial below). You can get FREE BACON on February 9, 2010 at Denny’s restaurants. Just go there and order a free Original Grand Slam® breakfast  between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. and get your fill of bacon for free!

Personally, I’d just eat the bacon…although those pancakes look mighty tasty too…

That place is the Burger Basket and they’re open from 6am to 10pm, 7 days a week serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.

What we were there for was breakfast fortified with bacon. For our first taste test we ordered the simple meal of the bacon & eggs breakfast plate. We ordered the eggs over hard with some white toast to top it all off.

The bacon was excellent. Thick, just the right balance of soft & crispy for this reviewer’s taste. The slices had just enough grease to keep things interesting without making the bacon too dry.

If you’re in Corona, make sure you stop by the Burger Basket.

Smaste™ Rating: 32.191

The Burger Basket
1058 West 6th Street
Corona, CA 92882
(951) 734-1331

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