{"id":1388,"date":"2007-09-18T10:21:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T15:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/09\/18\/bacon-flavored-chocolate\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T10:21:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T15:21:38","slug":"bacon-flavored-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/bacon-flavored-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacon-Flavored Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2007_09_16_archive.html#2741078799889445790\">Atrios<\/a> was kidding, but no.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosgeschocolate.com\/product\/bacon_exotic_candy_bar\/exotic_candy_bars\">Vosges Haut Chocolat<\/a> has indeed come out with a bacon-flavored chocolate bar.  I&#8217;m not sure if it qualifies as long-awaited, but it should have been.<\/p>\n<p><img width='400' class='center' src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/mosbaconbarpop.jpg' alt='Vosges Bacon Chocolate' \/><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosgeschocolate.com\/product\/bacon_exotic_candy_bar\/exotic_candy_bars\">description<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bacon Exotic Candy Bar &#8211; New<\/p>\n<p>Applewood smoked bacon + Alder smoked salt + deep milk chocolate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><em>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&#8211;chocolate.<br \/>\n&#8211;Katrina<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vosges is my favorite chocolatier (if you <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/01\/17\/the-best-things-in-life-can-be-pricey\/\">know what I mean<\/a>).  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&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;m going to have to give the new experiment a try.  You only live once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought Atrios was kidding, but no. Vosges Haut Chocolat has indeed come out with a bacon-flavored chocolate bar. I&#8217;m not sure if it qualifies as long-awaited, but it should have been. From the description: Bacon Exotic Candy Bar &#8211; New Applewood smoked bacon + Alder smoked salt + deep milk chocolate Deep milk chocolate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}