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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Oh bacon, is there no end to the blessings you bestow? Stuffing raw bacon up your nose stops uncontrollable nosebleeds, according to research recently published in a respected medical journal. What other medical cure smells so delicious?
Flickr/cookbookman17 It's better if you use raw, semi-frozen bacon instead of cooked.
Four doctors at Detroit Medical Center in Michigan treated a child who had a rare hereditary disorder that causes prolonged nose bleeding by using what they called a "nasal tampon" made out of "cured salted pork," the Guardian reports. The so-called bacon tampon "stopped nasal hemorrhage promptly, effectively, and without sequelae [negative consequences]," they write in the January 2012 issue of the Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology. "To our knowledge, this represents the first description of nasal packing with strips of cured pork for treatment of life-threatening hemorrhage in a patient with Glanzmann thrombasthenia" (a platelet disorder).
Here's a novel way to get bacon into your body. Like the American Express Black Card, which was an urban legend long before it was a real product, bacon lube is finally real -- and it wasn't dreamed up by George Costanza.
J&D's Bacon Lube
Manufactured by J&D's, which impressed us with their Bacon Popcorn but is best known for making Bacon Salt, baconlube started out as an April Fool's Day joke. Now, you can buy a 2 oz. bottle of the totally vegan, water-based lubricant for $11.99 (or $59.99 for a six-pack, for really vigorous lovers). We can finally stop bringing our skillet into the boudoir. Or not.
There is so much fuss over new baconized products (bazookas, salt, alphabets) that we sometimes forget that street vendors were outfitting hot dogs with bacon long before anyone knew how to tweet or Instagram. The vendors wheel out their carts like clockwork, punching in just as you're punching out, leaving a concert or staggering out of a bar. For this version of Food Fight, we set out to see whether the street hot dog can hold its own against a slightly more refined version at The Stand.
Foodforfel/Flickr Bacon wrapped hot dogs on the grill
In our never-ending quest to bring you the latest in bacon technology, we present Bacon Pop, bacon-flavored popcorn made by J&D's, the producers of MSG-addled Bacon Salt. Presumably, it's designed for those nights when you're too lazy to bother opening a jar of Bacon Salt, tilting it over the bowl of popcorn and repeatedly moving your wrist in a shaking motion. (Cue close-up of frazzled woman looking directly at camera and exclaiming, "There's got to be a better way!")
Guzzle & Nosh Bacon popcorn, the latest in bacon technology.
Bacon Pop comes in two flavors: exciting original Bacon and even more exciting Cheddar Bacon! How new is Bacon Pop? No idea. We just noticed it for the first time at the Monterey Park Ralph's, so it's new to us.
For some reason, Microsoft seems to think that experienced software engineers are difficult to find in this down economy, so it's trying to recruit talent from the Seattle offices of Amazon, Adobe and Google. The Seattle Times reports that the battle for skilled coders is being waged with free bacon.
Brier Dudley/Seattle Times
Yesterday, a bacon cart parked outside Amazon HQ, and served up strips from Seattle's artisanal butcher The Swinery to everyone. A stream of the curious (and who wouldn't be?) stopped by, and presumably, each also received a complimentary and desperate elevator pitch for why they should give up their job at Amazon and go work for Microsoft's Kinect team instead.
Note to desperate L.A. screenwriters: Crib this move and park a bacon cart just around the corner from some studio lot.
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Heritage bacon. Could life get better? It can, particularly if chefs John Stewart and Duskie Estes -- and a really great back story -- are involved. The couple is best known as the chef-proprietors behind Sonoma County's Zazu Restaurant + Farm (Santa Rosa) and Bovolo restaurant (Healdsburg). But with their summer Grand Cochon win (the chef-fueled Olympics of pork, essentially), they're getting as much attention of late for their backyard (literally) side project: Small-batch, hickory-smoked bacon that they sell under the Black Pig Meat Co. label (a package arrived in our welcome box after we joined the Butcher's Guild). It's among our favorite bacons at the moment, although it should be noted that we generally have a large number of cured meats on our "like" list at any given time (and smoky bacon diehards, do read the tasting disclaimer that follows).
biteclubeats.com Stewart and Estes After Their Big Cochon Win
But these chefs have a last-minute game changer: Their Black Pig Pinot Noir.
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Bacon on everything! Kentucky Fried Chicken's cashing in on the "everything's better with bacon" trend, introducing their newest artery-hardener, the Cheesy Bacon Bowl. Why stand on formality and separate your meal into discrete categories like mashed potatoes, fried chicken, corn, gravy and cheese? Simply, pile them all into one slop bucket (ahem, bowl) -- then, top it with bacon.
Courtesy of KFC KFC's Cheesy Bacon Bowl
Henry Hargreaves
If you're the sort of old school person who loves calligraphy and vellum and has long sought to combine your somewhat Dickensian habit with bacon -- because bacon is our current sine qua non -- then you can now rest happy. Henry Hargreaves, a Prada model and photographer, has created the bacon alphabet.
First bacon took over our cupcakes, and now it's invaded our tweets. Via following @SlakeMedia, we noticed that #replacebooktitleswithbacon is trending on Twitter.
Via @chrisarnold on Twitter.
