Food: Wrong Food: Chocolate Bacon Cupcake Photo

Sorry, no recipe. I just had to show you the cupcake. Just because.

Photo: By It's Holly. Wikimedia Commons.

Food: Wrong Food: Mo's Dark Bacon Bar

In a candy store, the other day, I saw a Vosges Haute Chocolat "Mo's Dark Bacon Bar."

You're familiar with me. You know I bought it.

I must admit that I was a little nervous about eating the thing - not out of any doubts about how bacon and chocolate would combine, but instead doubts about how exactly one could incorporate bacon into an unrefrigerated candy?

But I ate it anyway. It was good, but it wasn't nearly as weird as I expected. Good dark chocolate with a nice snap, pleasantly crunchy little salty pockets, and, well, that seems to be all. I'm not tasting any bacon.

Perhaps this is partly because my goal, with bacon, is the fat. All this praise of "lean bacon" is something that I don't understand. I consider the lean to be a necessary evil, a structural element that exists to hold the fat together. Preferably fat cooked to a shattering crispness.

But I suspect that shattering-crisp bacon fat would not be a very stable component of a chocolate bar. The bacon in the bar is probably lean, with its flavor hidden behind the dark chocolate. And that's OK with me. I love salt with my chocolate, so I'll happily buy this again, next time I see it.

Review Roundup: PapaKaster's Eatin' and The Scented Salamander and Perfume Posse and The Impulsive Buy and Washingtonian and Chocolateobsession and TheFoodSpot and NeedCoffee and Dave's Cupboard and BlissTree and she eats and Googling reviews of this just goes on and on and on, so I'll leave it at this for now.

Photo: By Renee Comet. Wikimedia Commons.