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  • Everything needs more BACON! Bacon Frosting is just what you’d expect. It’s frosting that tastes like bacon.

  • You know the holidays are just around the corner when Think Geek starts to promote their wonderful bacon-based gift ideas. The Sparkling Bacon Ornament is glittery meat and shiny metallic fat that would look stunning on any bacon-lovers Christmas tree.

  • Do you still walk all the way over to the oven or grill to check the temperature of the meat your cooking? Well, now there’s an App for that. The iGrill is an iPhone-compatible, bluetooth-enabled meat thermometer that let’s you check in on your food from any room in the house.

  • Uh-oh. Bacon flavored products may have just jumped the hog. ThinkGeek is selling tins of Fizzy Bacon Drink Tablets. I think in this case plop-plop, fizz-fizz might be more like the sound of indigestion, not relief.

  • A good number of years ago, I banished frozen waffles from my freezer and gullet. They tasted like sponges and always gave me heartburn for some reason. I pushed on through life without waffles… who would have thought I could have made them myself?

  • Not unlike the delicious deep fried turkey, the turducken has swooped in as one of the birds that all the cool kids will be eating this Thanksgiving.

  • We’ve had experience with several companies that deal with buffalo meat (American Bison) on the web. Here are two that we have ordered from and were very happy with what we got.