New sammich at Cominsky

Sox to Offer Italian Beef/Sausage/Pork Chop/Bacon Sandwich

CHICAGO — Peanuts and Cracker Jacks it ain't.

The Chicago White Sox have introduced a slew of new menu items at U.S. Cellular Field (I still call it Cominsky - ed.), including the monstrous Winning Ugly Grand Slam sandwich.

Named in honor of the 1983 "winning ugly" squad, the sandwich consists of Italian beef, an Italian sausage patty and a pork chop topped with bacon and covered with giardiniera, sautéed onions and peppers, all stuffed into an eight-inch muffalatta bread roll.

Bacon: An Ongoing Celebration (Cont'd)

Twenty contestants, 300 pounds of bacon, one day: This is the Bacon Takedown, returning to Chicago for a second year this September. When asked what was the most creative item on the last Takedown’s menu, creator Matt Timms replies “bacon taffy” with little hesitation, but can’t choose a favorite dish.
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Pork Soda

It's like drinkin' a pig!
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We walk a single path from birth to death punctuated by cured meats

It looks better here.
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JOHNNY BACONSEED: A POEM FOR THE HOPELESS ROMANTICS
by Joel Chmara

When strips of pork Godliness dance-crackle-curl on the pan,
I will be there,
puffing my chest
accepting pops of grease on my shirt
like a Deputy Ditka badge.

Garments perfumed with slight bacon splatter is no call for stain-lifter.
Nay, it simply ensures that one will carry the greatest foodstuff essence
for the rest of the day.
Take heed dear readers,
to love bacon is to carry the smokey scent with you
as an am-bad-ass-ador of the fine piggy belly brine.

I am that breed of bacon lover
spreading its virtues
as Johnny Baconseed.
Baconology mentored to friends
of how to incorporate it into every dish.
Caramelized, Hickory Smoked, Peppered, Mapeled
Sweet or Savory
Lardon or in Bits
I can baconate any menu
for the better of humankind.

When the final bite of a bacon treat
crunches in my mouth
leaving the perfect salty smoke sensation
I whisper to no one in particular,
“That’ll do pig. That’ll do.”

© 2011 Joel Chmara

The answer is NOOOOOOO!!!!

Are we eating too much bacon?

Easy on those pork chops, the British government advised on Friday.

I don't know about all of you, but I don't listen to the Breeetish government. Unless the 'Mercan gubmint sez it, I ain't gonna believe it. And if they do, they'll be infringing on my liberty, so I still won't listen. Not that I actually eat bacon...

bacon cupcakes

Chicago Bacon Takedown
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That's a spicy zettabyte

The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day

A report published Wednesday by the University of California, San Diego (Smiff's people? ed), calculates that American households collectively consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008.

Clearly, this chart is inaccurate. There should be a large slice of the pie going to the Lattice of Coincidence. No word as to whether we need to cut down TV or computer in order for us to lose weight.

Bacon and chocolate can relieve gift-giving stress

Salty and sweet collide in these chewy cookies

Maple Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Just in time for the holidays - Kosher, vegetarian bacon flavor

From the good people who brought you Baconnaise...


"Bacon Salt is a zero calorie, zero fat, vegetarian and Kosher seasoning that makes everything taste like bacon."

Books that smell like bacon? It's a Deckerian wet dream...

New Book Smell in a Can

Do you love your Kindle, but feel like it’s lacking a certain je ne sais quoi? Spray it with "New Book Smell" and get that satisfaction you’ve been missing.

Smell of Books comes in four additional aromas: Classic Musty, Crunchy Bacon, Eau You Have Cats, and Scents of Sensibility, for Jane Austen fans.

“Now you can finally enjoy reading e-books without giving up the smell you love so much. With Smell of Books you can have the best of both worlds, the convenience of an e-book and the smell of your favorite paper book.”

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lots of good arguments here on all sides

Eating Meat: Vegetarians / I’d Even Eat People, just not Dick Cheney / It is our responsibility to eat Dick Cheney, if possible

I'm disappointed in all of you for not beating me to posting this

The instructions for constructing this massive torpedo-shaped amalgamation of two pounds of bacon woven through and around two pounds of sausage and slathered in barbecue sauce first appeared last month on the Web site of a team of Kansas City competition barbecuers. They say a diverse collection of well over 16,000 Web sites have linked to the recipe, celebrating, or sometimes scolding, its excessiveness. A fresh audience could be ready to discover it on Super Bowl Sunday.

Don't try this at home... ok, Smiff can try it, but he has to report back to the rest of us

There isn't much to making bacon vodka: You throw a few cooked slices into the bottle, put it in a cupboard, and wait three weeks.

But wait til Jimmy Bloheim gets a restraining order because they stole his mantra

There’s no sugar-coating what More Cupcakes thinks of its competition.

The Gold Coast bakery at 1 E. Delaware that made headlines last year with its bacon-lettuce-tomato cupcake (and other odd, savory flavors) says one of its bakers has gone to work for the competition — the newly opened Sugar Bliss Cupcake Boutique at 115 N. Wabash — in violation of a confidentiality agreement.

It has filed a lawsuit against Melanie Rodewald, the baker in question, in Cook County Circuit Court. More was also granted a temporary restraining order that prevents Ms. Rodewald from working at Sugar Bliss. . .

Cratering economy? Who cares wiff dese innovations...

Notice their catch phrase: another blatant LoC rip-off...

http://www.baconnaise.com/

Consider this the beginning of the end of the end of capitalism -- America is fighting back!

News item: For the first time in at least five years, Potbelly has launched a new sandwich...

The clubby — with ham, turkey, bacon, provolone cheese and ranch dressing — has 30% more meat than Potbelly’s 11 other sandwiches and a higher price to match: $5.39, compared with $4.19.

America's favorite food can now be enjoyed anywhere! Snack on the GO!!

Fully Cooked, Ready to Eat, Canned Bacon.

Each can contains 40 - 50 slices and weighs 9 oz.

- 10 Year Shelf-Life (dependant upon storage conditions)
- 100% US Bacon, packed in the US

The bacon is cooked prior to canning, so you won’t pay for all of the natural shrinkage that occurs whenever you cook bacon.

Take some with you when you go camping, hiking or hunting - keep a case in the boat, RV, cabin or anywhere that you may need to prepare a meal but don’t have refrigeration!

Ingredients: Pork, Water, Salt, Sugar, Smoke Flavoring, Sodium Phosphates, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite.

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Mmmmmmm

I may have missed this being posted earlier, but in case it hasn't found its way to the LoC yet here goes:

Flying Chocolate Pig!

I suppose they have a point... I still totally hate that phokker Emmanuel Goldstein though

Fighting with Fox Noise is "'fighting with a pig. Everyone gets dirty and the pig likes it.' But in the Times today, media critic David Carr takes Fox to task for its 'scorched earth' reaction to criticism. In particular, Carr writes that the anti-Semitic overtones to the distortion of Steinberg's photo recall 'a technique familiar to students of vintage German propaganda' as 'his ears were pulled out, his teeth splayed apart, his forehead lowered and his nose was widened.'"

another spin on the Chicago hot dog

fran chee zee / n. A fate-tempting delicacy: a beef hot dog sliced in half, stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon -- before being deep fried and served on a bun. Fries are usually included.