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Entries from April 2009

Bacon Lovers = Chemistry Nerds

by · April 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments

I’ve often heard bacon lovers say that one of the reasons that bacon is the best meat out there is because it is so good it can “break” vegetarians. Well is bacon good just because it is tasty? Or is there a more sophisticated chemical interaction at work? In a recent article in The Daily [...]

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Tags: Bacon

Bacon Gun

by · April 15th, 2009 · 19 Comments

Submitting their entry to the long line of bacon related products and crazy things made of bacon such as the bacon bra, bacon floss and a bacon ipod case, the blog This is Freaking Ridiculous has created a gun made of bacon.  But not just any old gun: the BA-K-47, a 1:1 scale AK-47 made [...]

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Tags: Bacon · Bizarre · Cool · Marketing

Chick-fil-A Gets in on the Teabagging

by · April 15th, 2009 · 7 Comments

As many of you know, a bunch of pissed off conservatives have organized “Tea Parties” today to protest Obama, high taxes, the stimulus bill and who knows what else. Some of these groups have encouraged their members to “tea bag congress.”  Not one to be left out, Chick-fil-A wants to get in on the hot [...]

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Tags: Fast Food

Annoy Charlie Smith Inc.

by · April 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

As a humor/food blog, almost all my posts relate to food in some capacity. However, every once in a while there’s something funny and comedic I like to highlight with only a tenuous link to food. My buddy Seaton Smith, a comic here in Washington, DC, has just released the first episode of a great [...]

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Tags: Comedy · YouTube

Meat Madness Final Four: Chicken vs. Bacon

by · April 14th, 2009 · 38 Comments

Click HERE to see the initial post about Meat Madness and full 32 meat bracket.  Click HERE to view a preview of the final four match-ups. Update: Voting on this match-up is now closed.  Bacon defeats Chicken 60% – 40% and advances to the final! Final Four voting has begun! From Noon today until noon [...]

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Tags: Bacon · Chicken · Meat Madness

Meat Madness: The Final Four

by · April 13th, 2009 · 8 Comments

The quest to determine what is the greatest meat continues. This week we enter the Final Four. A winner in each meat region has been crowned, and now they are set to do battle to decide which one of them is the ultimate meat.  With the Final Four now upon us, we have  extended voting [...]

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Tags: Meat Madness

Denis Leary Talks Bacon

by · April 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Around the 4:30 mark of this interview with Letterman, Denis Leary starts riffing on bacon – and doesn’t stop until the interview ends.  Check it out. H/T Bacon Unwrapped.

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Tags: Bacon · celebrities · Comedy · YouTube

Carl’s Jr. Commercials: Targeting Douchebags or Necessary to Avoid Being “Vanilla?”

by · April 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Sarah Haskins, has a recent “Target Women” video over at Current which discusses the recent/current advertising campaign by Carl’s Jr.  She suggests that its  advertising campaign should be called, “Douchebaggery 101: Embracing your inner douche.”  She has both amusing and interesting points to raise in her video.  Check it out below: (H/T Adpulp). My stumbling [...]

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Tags: Advertising · Comedy · Fast Food

So Good Blog/News Round-Up 4/10/09

by · April 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Village Voice exposes the BK Burger Shots “ruse.” One of the greatest ideas I have ever seen: Peep Wars. Obama’s having a deep-dish pizza party – but the pies aren’t from Chicago. Eater calls out a shill. A perfect balance of genius timing and lameness: This is Why You’re Thin. Endless Simmer doesn’t like [...]

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Meat Madness Elite 8: Bacon vs. Ribs

by · April 9th, 2009 · 9 Comments

Click HERE to head back to the initial post about Meat Madness.  Click the bracket below to see where we stood at the start of  the Elite 8 match-ups. Update: Voting on this match-up is now closed. Bacon defeats Ribs 69% – 31%. Wow. We had quite the down to the wire vote on that [...]

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Tags: Bacon · Meat Madness