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Happy National Caramel Popcorn Day: 5 Places to Eat Bacon Popcorn Instead

By Jennifer Swann Fri., Apr. 5 2013 at 4:00 PM
Categories: Bacon, Food Trends

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Bacon caramel popcorn
We're told April 6 is National Caramel Popcorn Day, but aside from the concession stands at The Arclight and Dodger Stadium, we're not seeing too much caramel corn in this town. Instead, a different kind of corn is popping up on L.A. menus, and it's got one thing in common: bacon. Sometimes, you can even find it doused in bourbon. In honor of this (questionable) national holiday, we recommend ditching the caramel and diving into more meaty -- and sometimes alcoholic -- popcorn offerings at these five spots.

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Can Somebody Please Declare the Bacon Trend Over?

By Amy Scattergood Tue., Mar. 19 2013 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Bacon

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Denny's
Now that bacon has been embraced by Denny's, can someone please declare that the trend is finally, mercifully, over? Perhaps Mayor Bloomberg can do this for us, since we seem to be between mayors at the moment. Giant soft drinks, cigarettes -- bacon is arguably just as much of a threat to our national health. Or, if not our physical health, at least our mental health.

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Porkocalypse: Will There Be A Pork Shortage Or Not?

By Besha Rodell Thu., Sep. 27 2012 at 11:56 AM
Categories: Bacon, More Things to Freak Out About, Pork

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mikeywally via flickr
Mmmm ... bacon
Can it really have only been a couple of days ago? Yes, news of the porkocalypse began to spread just earlier this week after a British trade organization, the National Pig Assn., put out a press release stating that "A world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable."

The reason?

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Burger King Releases Bacon Sundae: Bacon Is Officially Over

By Besha Rodell Tue., Jun. 12 2012 at 1:15 PM
Categories: Bacon, Fast Food

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Burger King
BK bacon sundae
There are all kinds of ways to gauge when something is done, dead, over as a trend. When your mom knows about it, when network news does a trend piece on it, when it hooks up with another stupid trend and makes disgusting trend babies. But nothing says DEAD for a food trend like Burger King jumping on the bandwagon. Behold, the sad, sad, dead, over Burger King bacon sundae.

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And Now, A Brief Message From Bill Murray

By Amy Scattergood Tue., Jun. 5 2012 at 9:54 AM
Categories: Bacon, Twitter

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Screenshot of Bill Murray's Twitter page

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A Recipe From the (Now Itinerant) Wine Guy: Lou's Pig Candy

By Margy Rochlin Mon., Apr. 16 2012 at 12:00 PM
Categories: Bacon, Recipes

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Ron Dollette
Lou's Pig Candy

Several weeks ago, when it was announced that Lou Amdur was selling his wine bar, LOU, we offered a parting culinary keepsake for Squid Ink readers -- the recipe for LOU's famous pig candy. Want to know the origin story of this sweet, bacon-y side dish? If so, forget about the chocolate-dipped pork morsel you read about on Slashfood as well as that anecdote about Lou Amdur roaming through the hills of Kentucky and running into a mystical sugarpig and... (OK, we made that one up). The real birth of Pig Candy involves a cold night, a roaring bonfire, high school stoners (implied) and an enterprising teenager. To read about it -- and for the recipe -- turn the page.


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Custom Bacon From Cast Iron Gourmet

By Rachael Narins Mon., Apr. 16 2012 at 6:31 AM
Categories: Bacon, Shopping

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Everything under the sun is customizable these days. There are wineries that will help you create your own blend, and the Mars company is happy to put anything you like on an M&M. But what if wine or chocolate isn't your thing? (Huh?) What if your thing is bacon? What if you want to "Name Your Slab?"

For the casual home cook, making bacon is actually quite simple; but not everyone has the time, tools or inclination. It can be an intimidating business, too, as the National Center for Home Food Preservation gently reminds us. Rashida Purifoy, owner of Cast Iron Gourmet, doesn't want anything to stand in your way though, and she has come up with a dreamy solution for you to make your bacon and eat it, too. For $250 she will work with you to create your own, custom bacon. Twelve pounds of it.

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Lighten Up Your Funeral With a Bacon Casket

By Rachael Narins Fri., Mar. 30 2012 at 11:00 AM
Categories: Bacon, Food Oddities

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J&D's
Bacon coffin

The overzealous kitchen tinkerers at J&D's who brought us Bacon Salt and whimsical bacon-flavored envelopes have taken their obsession one step further.

While you're not going to die of clogged arteries from any of their totally Kosher (though we can't vouch for the tacky factor) product line, when you do take that final breath -- possibly from eating chemical-laden faux foods -- they have that covered, too. Yes, pork lovers of the world, as of today, for just under $3,000, J&D's can send you off to your eternal sleep in a bacon coffin.


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Bacon Milkshake: Not Very Bacony But Still Drinkable

By Elina Shatkin Mon., Feb. 20 2012 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Bacon, Fast Food

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BLT bacon burger, bacon milkshake and bacon cheddar potato wedges from Jack in the Box
If that headline isn't the most lukewarm compliment ever, we don't know what is. We were so thrilled to learn about Jack in the Box's bacon milkshake, we didn't even care when we learned it's not real. It exists. It's just that there's no bacon in it.

Be Food Smart dug up the ingredients (no easy task) in Jack in the Box's "bacon milkshake" and discovered the flavor comes from a "bacon syrup" made with six ingredients, none of them bacon: pure cane sugar, water, natural and artificial flavors, salt, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate. Yay for vegetarians? (Don't even ask what's in the whipped topping or the ice cream shake mix.)

To be fair, we tried the BLT cheeseburger and we're pretty sure that also contains no bacon.

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Bacon Milkshake: It's Real

By Elina Shatkin Fri., Feb. 3 2012 at 10:15 AM
Categories: Bacon, Fast Food, Ice Cream & Gelato

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We're still pinching ourselves to make sure this isn't a dream. Our sister blog City of Ate at the Dallas Observer tells us it isn't. The Bacon Milkshake from Jack in the Box is here!

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