BACON SCENTED
BACON PRINT TUXEDO
by Archie McPhee
mcphee.com

So it's my dad's 50th birthday this weekend, and seeing as I'll be out of town doin' it up proper in the great white north, i figured it only appropriate to throw up some extra posts to make up for my time away from the interweb. If only i had come across this beautiful specimen earlier, my dad might have gotten the gift to end all gifts.


There's a theory that everything is better with bacon. We believe that theory with all of our heart. To that end, we are introducing our line of bacon formal wear with Uncle Oinker's Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo. You can get married in bacon, get confirmed in bacon or go to the Oscars in bacon! Wait until Joan Rivers gets a whiff of you. Each Tuxedo is tailored from chemically treated latex print fabric in one of four different sizes. Best of all, it smells just like bacon sizzling in the pan. Dry clean only.

Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo
$99.95 ea. @ mcphee.com

MO'S BACON BAR
by Vosges Haut Chocolat
vosgeschocolate.com

Once upon a thursday I was sitting at work, searching stock image sites with bloodshot eyes, when from over my shoulder was uttered three beautiful words that I had never before heard in sequence...
Bacon+Chocolate+Bar. Say again?
Beside me was Brett, holding out a candy bar wrapper, offering me a taste; and what a taste it was.


WHAT'S INSIDE: Breathe…engage your 5 senses, close your eyes and inhale deeply. Be in the present moment, notice the color of the chocolate, the glossy shine. Rub your thumb over the chocolate bar to release the aromas of smoked applewood bacon flirting with deep milk chocolate. Snap off just a tiny piece and place it in your mouth, let the lust of salt and sweet coat your tongue.

INSPIRATION: "I began experimenting with bacon + chocolate at the tender age of 6, while eating chocolate chip pancakes drenched in Aunt Jemima® syrup, as children often do. Beside my chocolate-laden cakes laid 3 strips of sizzlin' bacon, just barely touching a sweet pool of maple syrup. And then, the magic—just a bite of the bacon was too salty and I yearned for the sweet kiss of chocolate and syrup, so I combined the two. In retrospect, perhaps this was a turning point; for on that plate something magical happened, the beginnings of a combination so ethereal and delicious that it would haunt my thoughts until I found the medium to express it—chocolate.

From there, it was just a matter of time…and what began as a love of salt and sweet quickly unraveled into an obsession. No sooner could I wait to unveil the royal coupling in solid bar form, a deep milk chocolate with bits and pieces of applewood smoked bacon and just a sprinkling of Alder salt. Really, what doesn't taste better with bacon?"- Katrina

Mo's Bacon Bar
$7.50 ea. @ vosgeschocolate.com

WAKE N' BACON
by Matty Sallin, Daniel Bartolini, Hsiao-huh Hsu
mathlete.com



WHAT: An alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon.



WHY: No one likes to wake up, especially by an alarm. This clock gently wakes you up with the mouthwatering aroma of bacon, just like waking up on a Sunday morning to the smell of Mom cooking breakfast.
Unless you're Jewish.



HOW: A frozen strip of bacon is placed in Wake n' Bacon the night before. Because there is a 10 minute cooking time, the clock is set to go off 10 minutes before the desired waking time. Once the alarm goes off, the clock sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the alarm sound. We hacked the clock so that the signal is re-routed by a microchip that responds by sending a signal to a relay that throws the switch to power two halogen lamps that slow-cook the bacon in about 10 minutes.