I thought Atrios was kidding, but no. Vosges Haut Chocolat has indeed come out with a bacon-flavored chocolate bar. I’m not sure if it qualifies as long-awaited, but it should have been.
From the description:
Bacon Exotic Candy Bar – New
Applewood smoked bacon + Alder smoked salt + deep milk chocolate
Deep milk chocolate coats your mouth and leads to the crunch of smoked bacon pieces. Surprise your mouth with the smoked salt and sweet milk chocolate combination.
Crisp, buttery, compulsively irresistible bacon and milk chocolate combination has long been a favorite of mine. I started playing with this combination at the tender age of six while eating chocolate chip pancakes drenched in maple syrup. Beside my chocolate-laden cakes laid three strips of fried bacon, just barely touching a sweet pool of maple syrup. Just a bite of the bacon was too salty and yearned for the sweet kiss of chocolate syrup. 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.
–Katrina
Vosges is my favorite chocolatier (if you know what I mean). Not only do they blend excellent chocolate with a wide variety of exotic spices to create uniformly interesting and delicious combinations, but I stumbled upon them when they were just a tiny one-shop operation in Chicago, before their blossoming into international success. And a friend of mine once claimed that every type of food is enhanced by the addition of bacon, including ice cream. (Although I did manage to give her pause with my suggestion of bacon-flavored water.) So I’m thinking I’m going to have to give the new experiment a try. You only live once.
How about tobacco-flavored chocolate? A few days ago, I saw a show on the PBS “extra channel” (the hi-def one that parallels the regular broadcast – not accessible by old fashioned analog TVs) about Bruges, the wonderful colorful old city in Belgium. You know they are known for chocolate. Well, the girl at the counter offered the host “Cuban-cigar flavored chocolate.” (!) Not only a weird chocolate, but a bit of political challenge to US policy as well. The host thought it was interesting, and tasted reasonably authentic, but not sure if “good.” Of course the chocolate couldn’t have much real tobacco extract in it, since oral ingestion of even the nicotine in one cigarette is very toxic.
BTW, many of you might want to see the premier of “Big Bang Theory” tonight, 8:30 PM on CBS. It’s about a couple of physics students who can “… tell their quarks from their quantum physics, but have no clue how women add up. Leave it to their pretty new neighbor, just off a messy breakup, to teach them a thing or two.” Well, let’s hope she’s bright too.
“People so concerned about whether they could, they never stopped to think if they should. ”
A poorly paraphrased quote from Jurassic Park.
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Sounds more like a little treat you would feed your dog. Now that chocolate with 24K edible gold sounds quite interesting, but a bit pointless.
my boyfriend bought me a bar and i’ve actually tried it. it’s VERY good and i cant wait to get another one :3