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I’ve been eating tons of BaconSalt and tons of bacon and it’s probably not good for me, mostly because I add lots of sugr. I’m still going to the Iowa Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour on February 27th, 2010 though!
Facebook has really taken over for blogging and my posts here have been nothing more than a few funny bits nad my silly notes from BACON LIVE, the only show about BACON that’s really not getting the viewer growth it deserves.
First Bacon LIVE for the new year, check Nueskes. Where was Sean when we needed a brand name correction?! What’s up with that? The bacon had the applewood flavor we all love, and a smoky flavor as if it was cooked over a fire. Tasty! The only con was the thinness, but it was still good. Sean screwed up the name of the company too. FAIL. Wow, they both messed it up at least six times. I was going to add some poetry about Nantucket to this post, but I’ll let you google it yourself.
At 25:50 Mr. Baconpants says, “omg, why have I been saying Nantucket?” Tard. You too, Sean. T-A-R-D.
Sean has a great recipe for the show. Egg and Bacon Spaghetti. Check the show for the details! It’d be cooler if Sean had a cooking show on the side where he makes these things and shows them off on the show.
First vodeo on the show tonight is pig wrestling! It was kinda cute.
Second video of the day was a bunch of people chasing pigs through muddy water to tie them up and hold them, but none of them seemed to know how.
Man, this show needs more BACON! 30 minutes to go!
Sean says that California law now bans most trans fats. Denmark banned all trans-fat in 2003 and their people are healthier than ever. It’s going to make fast food taste worse than it already tastes. Too bad. We’re really going to be sad when all fast food has been taken over by Taco Bell. Taco Bell should get into the baconmenon by offering some bacon quesadillas or a bacon-wrapped burrito or even with the Baco.
Again, check out the video for all the contest details!
Right off, Mr. Baconpants let us know about the new Wendy’s spicy chicken nuggets! I can’t wait to get some of those. Today I had a Frostyccino. Pretty damn good!
They brought out some meat sticks from Pop’s Authentic. It looks like they’ve got Original, Peppered, Bacon and Habanero meat sticks!
Mr. Baconpants mentioned that his cousins bought the Enjoy Bacon shirts for Christmas gifts. I bought another one from BACN.COM a few weeks ago for myself since I gave my other two as gifts I really want the bacon art shirt Mr. Baconpants is wearing tonight but I can’t remember where that came from.
Mr. Baconpants and Sean got a couple great bacon-related Christmas gifts. You’ll need to watch the show to get more info. I got a Jingle-Bells singing pig that poops candy. It was pretty awesome, but it would have been more awesome if it pooped bacon.
Sean asked for a Bacon Cheeseburger salad dressing for Christmas. He should talk to James Mosier from @oxfordfalls who makes the Bacon Cheeseburger Bloody Mary Mix and several awesome sauces. He could do it! I visited him and his wife on a recent drive to Memphis to try BBQ in AR, MS and TN. Sean also asked for gravy in a squeeze bottle. Dude, look up Crystal Gravy; it was an awesome SNL skit. http://www.videosift.com/video/Crystal-Gravy-Now-you-can-finally-see-your-food
Mr. Baconpants and Sean both discussed their hate of birthday cake. That’s why I always demand chocolate zuccini cake with chocolate butter-cream-cheese frosting for my birthdays. It’s good.
Sean brought up a Bacon Dessert Cookoff! Create a prize-winning bacon dessert and submit them to kherzog@journalsentinal.com. The deadline is January 11th! See www.mrbaconpants.com soon for more details.
You’ll need to catch the show for the news bit about Kentucky Fried Dog in bacon-grease and other animal cruelty issues.
At 28 minutes in, we finally get to see the meat sticks! They’re about average for length but they look a lot thicker than your average beef sticks! These are hand-made artisan meat sticks!
You can buy these fine sticks of meat online, but I couldn’t see a URL for them on Bacon Live!
Bacon: Subtle, hearty, smoky and better than a Slim Jim! (I think Slim Jims taste like greasy ass)
Original: More salami flavor than the Bacon stick. They liked it more than the Bacon meat stick.
Pepper: A little spicy and a little more dried out than the Original stick. Not bad.
Habanero: Dry, somewhat good, and a little Habanero heat.
Silly guys, I slice up Habaneros and put them in my morning bowl of Special K.
Meat Stick preference from greatest to last:
Mr. B: Peppered, Habanero, Bacon, Original
Sean: Peppered, Habanero, Original, Bacon
Get your meat on from Pop’s Authentic for $13.80 a dozen.
January will be the Mr. Baconpants month of giveaways, so some lucky reader will get a pack of meat sticks!
Mr. Baconpants showed the Alli and Georgia video at 47 minutes in. OMG they are hot and they like booze and meat together. In this episode they make the Bloody Bacon and Cheese. Watch It NOW. They also showed the Mcnuggetini video. Deeeelicious!
Sean brought up the Used Tampon: Bailey’s, Vodka, and a dot of Grenadine. Nice.
On today’s show, Mr. Baconpants and Sean are reviewing sausa..WHAT? Sausage links! Welcome to Sausage-LIVE! Sean found these FREAKIN’ AMAZING PORK AND BACON SAUSAGES! Awesome.
They’re made with real bacon! Now you can have the best of both pork products! The scary part is that Sean bought them at a Dollar Tree. Wow. I have never EVER purchased a food product from a Dollar Tree. I hope they don’t die after the show. Mr. Baconpants tried the baconsausage with his beer ,and it just made it a bit worse. Overall, they were slightly impressed with the flavor. Would they buy some at a real grocery store? No–Unless you’re homeless and it’s the only store that will let you in.
IDEA: Mr. Baconpants and Sean should test a standard bacon with a selection of 5 of the cheapest beers and convenience-store wine. Tell us which ones are good together!
Recipe from Mr. Baconpants:
Buy a cheap steak; the cheapest you can find.
Get your meat tenderizer and beat the hell out of it.
Wrap things in the flat steak and cook them.
Great recipe, man. You two look like stoners on every episode. All that’s missing is a big bowl of Doritos topped with bacon.
Sean highly recommends The Crossroads. They serve steak-ums. Made with real Stove Top Stuffing!
Sean also recommends Wedding Soiup. It has noodle balls and spinach and stuff. No, it doesn’t exist in any other state. We don’t have soup in Texas, only chili, no beans.
Sean let us know that Mr. Bumbles the bacon-eating skunk is now in a horrible zoo where he’s only fed high-fiber food and is forced to exercise twice a day. Poor Mr. Bumbles. Let him eat bacon!
GIVE BACON TO MR BUMBLES!
There was some talk of Gordon Ramsey and his crazy shows. I highly recommend Little Gordon Ramsey on Youtube.
Holy shit. Mr. Baconpants let us all know of a new word: Flexitarian. What’s up with that?
Flexitarianism (AKA semi-vegetarian) are people who eat mostly vegetarian foods, but sometimes thrown in a double-bacon cheeseburger There is no limit to how much meat a Flexitarian can eat, so they’re NORMAL GODDAMN PEOPLE. You don’t need a retarded name for yourselves other than NORMAL. WTF!?!
Flexitarian was voted the most useful word of 2003 by the American Dialect Society. Actually, American Dialect Society, the most useful word in this situation is OMGWTFBBQ?!!!
Sean says an appropriate portion of chicken is about the size of a deck of cards. (That’s roughly 6 oz Sean.) Yeah, my appropriate portion of chicken is HALF a chicken. Or three large chicken breasts, or 20 wings, or a six-pack of legs and thighs.
Mr. Baconpants says 2010 is the year of contests for Bacon-LIVE! I can’t wait. Yeah guys, I think the pencil toppers were the episode 24 giveaway, like last February or so. I wanted the pencil toppers. I emailed them, but was rejected. I would have put Bacon Salt on them and eaten them.
Video of the Week: It looks like some kind of stuffed pig racing. OK. Nothing to see here.
A second video shows the pigs racing across a table, but it’s still kinda lame.
Yet another video, well, just watch the show. It’s creepy.
Wow, and then they showed another mechanical pig video, and another one, and another!
HAHA Mr. Baconpants said pigs get up to 100 pounds, but it’s more like 250-350 pounds. Pigs get big.
Sean showed us a cheerful video to watch when you’re having a bad day. It’s called “poor puppy can’t roll over” and you can find it easily on Youtube. Poor puppy! There’s even an EPIC version with better music.
Sean’s got a recipe for Bourbon Cider Braised Bacon. You’ll need to catch the show for the info and the link.
The guys were talking about doing a Food show and brought up Giada, the big-headed chick. Her head reminds me of those BratZ dolls, all slutty with a GIANT f’ing head. Maybe it’s the botox. I always thought Alton Brown was awesome until I saw how they make the show. All of the cool facts are read to him by a producer who has lists of interesting crap about everything. He’s not really cool at all. I was so disappointed. TV is fake. Back to real cooks on PBS.
I missed the show tonight. My wife got me a ukulele and time stood still for a few hours.
Today’s show started with an interview with John from Kraft about the new Oscar Mayer super-thick applewood smoked bacon! It’s a restaurant quality bacon for the home! John said it’s a bacon that has never been available before in stores and it’s not even expensive! Sweet! Even John’s Jewish wife has converted to bacon-eater! John says he’s the man looking at the market for new bacon development, and both Jason and Sean recommended a thick-cut sweet maple bacon! I can’t wait for some of that!
Bacon tips from John:
With thick bacon, cook it on medium-low in a pan or just lay it out in the oven and cook at 350 for 25 minutes or so for perfect bacon. I do this with a cooling rack over a cookie sheet with parchment paper in the bottom to make cleanup easy. For pan-cooking bacon, the most important thing is to not crowd the bacon! Freezing a few slices of raw bacon for easy access is a great idea, but don’t freeze cooked bacon, it won’t taste right later.
Bacon Butter:
Take a full package of the Oscar Mayer super-thick-cut applewood-smoked bacon and drop it into a brownie pan with about a cup of wine, spices, peppercorns, garlic cloves, bay leaves, and thyme. Cover with foil and throw it in the oven for 3 hours. All of the fat will be drained off and the meat will be extremely tender. Remove the meat and beat it until it’s butter! It’s great to spread on everything from waffles to chicken wings! It should last in the fridge for about 2 weeks.
John also talked about a peanut butter, marshmallow fluff and banana sandwich on cinnamon bread, and everyone agreed it needed bacon!
Mr. Baconpants mentioned Wright brand bacon, which I have found to be the best bacon here in Texas. It’s only $3 a pound here and it kicks ass. Recently I had to make BLT’s for the family and the bacon we picked up was Jimmy Dean brand. This was the WORST bacon I’ve ever cooked. It was extremely wet inside the package, and the meat was more red-colored than other bacon. When done, it went from 3 pounds to less than half a pound! Absolute crap. Get the Oscar Mayer thick-cut bacon, Wright, or Hormel Black Label. These three have been great for me.
The Heart Attack Snack came up on the show during the nterview and they mentioned that the bacon bits don’t stick to the mayonaise very well. My solution for this when I experimented with the Heart Attack Snack was to make very soft boiled eggs, remove the shells, wrap them in bacon and then cook them in the oven. The bacon fries right onto the egg and makes a perfect skin. The outside of the egg is even a bit crunchy from frying in the grease. Then dip the whole thing in mayo! John from Kraft said they should dip the eggs in flour, egg, panko with bacon bits, and then deep fry! That would be excellent too!
Hopefully John will be back for future episodes with more cool bacon info!
at 24 minutes in, we finally get to see the first taste test of the Oscar Mayer Super-Thick-Cut
Applewood Smoked Bacon! The smell and taste were most excellent. Cooking it low and
slow makes it crunchy on the outside and perfectly chewy on the inside! This could be the best store-bought bacon ever. There’s lots of better bacon, but truly great bacon is hard to come by unless you have $50 or more to pay for several pounds and some major shipping costs.
Sean said you should get up early and cook this bacon to wake up the family on Christmas morning. They’ll remember this Christmas forever! He also suggested they should call it “Wicked-Thick Bacon.” I would pay $20 a pound for something called Wicked-Thick!
Mr. Baconpants discussed his upcoming trip this weekend to the Dogfish Head Brewery for a 5-course pork dinner with special beers for each course. He recommended the hosts get some Mountain Products Smokehouse bacon because it’s one of the best! I can say that Dogfish Head makes some excellent beer. Their pumpkin ale was awesome. You’ll need to catch the show for the details of the pork dinner!
The one amazing thing we learned today: Jewish people are easily converted by bacon! Vegans are a lost cause.
Today’s first video segment was a kid way too excited about getting a Nintendo Wii. Awesome. The kid cries like mad and then had to go throw up because he was so excited. Bet he opens the box to find a phone book. HAH!
The second video of the day was Chatham County Line playing Bacon in the Skillet. It was a pretty good music video, but not as cool as the kid getting a Wii.
Sean “That Sweet Ass” Brett brought out some Christmas bacon poetry. Just go watch it. Now!
You can now call BACON LIVE during the show at 412-223-7727. You could also probably leave funny voicemails for them to play on the show later, so call and say something funny, tell your bacon jokes, and oink a lot!
Today, Mr. Baconpants and Sean started the show discussing the new Oscar Mayer thick-cut applewood smoked bacon. It’s decent bacon and it’s not too expensive!
Our hosts tried to find a retro bacon commercial, but had some serious technical difficulties. Youtube has let us down once again.
Our hosts brought up the Mountain Products Smokehouse many flavors of wonderful bacon, but it’s so hard to get it when you need it, so be sure to search your stores for new bacon. If they don’t have what you want, fill out a customer product request! Stores actually take these little slips of paper seriously most of the time.
Sean brought up cooking a slab of bacon. Just steam the whole thing or roast it in the oven! You could marinate it in all kinds of things and invent the next great bacon recipe!
Things jumped from bacon to Mexican Coke and Coke’s new Passover Coke for Jewish people! Hooray Jewish Coke!
Finally we got back to the 1990 Oscar Mayer bacon commercial. It was pretty cute.
“Not even a bad economy can stop the love of bacon.” – Sean Brett
“You can’t afford healthcare this year, but you’ve still got bacon.” – Sean Brett
Iheartcells showed up at 30 minutes into the show with J&D’s BaconPop popcorn! Sean only smelled butter but Mr. Baconpants said it smelled like bacon! It has a light, smoky flavor that’s much better than just pouring BaconSalt on after cooking. They did add a little BaconSalt recommended that J&D add a little sample packet of BaconSalt with the popcorn so you can make it taste even more bacony! Mr. Baconpants said the BaconPop is just perfect!
Sean pulled out the classic jug of tea from some of the early shows. Hopefully it’s new tea. He also brought up bacon-wrapped turkey hot pockets which sound totally delicious. That of course led to Jim Gaffigan’s Hot Pocket comedy video. It was most excellent.
It’s the easiest thing you’ll make this holiday season! Sorry, no pictures this time. They were gone before a camera could be located.
Ingredients:
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
3/4 cup light brown sugar
1 stick of butter
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp BaconSalt (Maple)
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup flour
Just cream the sugar and butter, add eggs, baking soda, flour and BaconSalt!
Throw it into a greased baking dish and pop it in the oven at 350 for 30 minutes. I ruined mine by sticking a knife in to check for doneness. It cracked the pretty top, so use a toothpick!
The Glaze: (optional)
Microwave two tablespoons of water with 1 tsp Maple BaconSalt. The object here is to dissolve as much of the BaconSalt as possible. Add the mixture to 3/4 cup of real maple syrup and spoon over each brownie individually!
It’s never too early in the year to eat pumpkin pie! My sister moved to Australia early this year and she just made a pumpkin pie and her Australian family members hated it. They’d never had pumpkin pie before! Maybe they would have liked it more with BaconSalt!
My wife made a frozen pumpkin pie today since we can’t wait until we go to my grandmother’s house for the real thing. I refuse to use Cool Whip or Reddi Whip on my pies, so I always make my own! After the pie and whipped cream were ready, I sprinkled a good bit of Maple BaconSalt all around in case it was really good and I needed to scoop up some extra maple-bacon flavor while eating my pie.
Yes, it was good, and I ended up scraping all the extra BaconSalt on the plate with bits of crust and cream. It’s a little odd at first when you combine something a bit salty with something so sweet, but after a few seconds you realize you’ve found heaven.
For the last few weeks I’ve been taking complete notes of Bacon LIVE, my favorite and only weekly show about bacon and everything that looks, smells, or tastes like bacon!
During Bacon Live this week, the wife and I were at Graceland, having the VIP
Elvis experience, including deep fried peanut-butter and banana sandwiches with bacon!
Show Notes:
Right off Mr Baconpants announces Sean’s Twitter username of @baconknight in case you’ve somehow been disconnected from the internet for a few weeks.
Second thing up was Mr. Baconpants’ announcement that he’ll be selling @Sweetsoaps Maple Bacon soap that looks like soap but smells like delicious maple. He also announced SweetSoaps maple-bacon candle with a wooden wick so it sizzles as it burns! You can buy the soap on her web site and the candle is available for preorder now!
Mr. Baconpants also announced the return of bacon-themed jewelry that will hopefully be available on the web site in time for Christmas.
Jason and Sean both made it public that they are bacoholics. It’s the first addiction you really can’t be ashamed of. Don’t talk yourself out of bacon, talk someone else into sharing it with you! Signs of bacon addiction include seeing babies on the ceiling with spinning heads and possibly falling into the toilet like that guy on Trainspotting.
The Wendy’s contest during the show tonight was to make a video of yourself confessing your love for bacon to win big points for the daily gift card giveaway.
Current daily leaders in the Wendy’s Twitter contest are @iscoolerthanyou and @lovethat24chevy.
Sean has issues with several online services that let you schedule future tweets to score more points with the hourly points earned by using the #bacon hashtag. Sean was against it, but Mr. Baconpants was fine with it. Either way, there’s no way to prove whether someone is auto-tweeting using scripts online or sitting at the computer 24 hours a day getting their #bacon tweets counted for their hard work and dedication to #bacon. “Future-tweeting” has led to a lot of name-calling and drama. STFU and get back to #bacon, you tweenies!
Sean, the smart one here, brought up some great uses for bacon this Thanksgiving. He said it’d be great to toss some bacon bits in mashed potatoes and corn, but I must disagree. Use BaconSalt.
Sean also ran thorugh a quick Thanksgiving turkey recipe. You’ll need to watch the show to get the whole thing, but the important part is to cut a small hole into the skin off the breasts and stuff several strips of raw bacon between the skin and meat. Then wrap each leg and wing with several strips of bacon. I’ve wrapped turkey breasts with bacon and an entire turkey, but I haven’t tried the bacon-under-the-skin technique yet. We’ll give this a shot Sean. You can’t really mess this up.
Mr. Baconpants and Sean brought up the Turducken which would be made 500X more awesome if it was wrapped in bacon. Personally, I think they should stuff a Bacon Explosion inside a turkey, and then wrap it in bacon! I can’t think of a catchy name for it though.
Wow, we’re only half way through the show and have learned so much! At 30 minutes in, you can hear the quick 30-second version of the Baconator Combo song that they shortened for a Wendy’s 30-second video contest on Youtube. Mr. Baconpants called them up on Skype and interviewed them about their awesome bacon songs and the possibility of doing more bacon songs in the future!
During the taped interview, Mr. Baconpants ran downstairs and grabbed the J&D’s Bacon Ranch Dip and a bag of Ruffles which are the best chip for dipping into a sour-cream based dip! You can buy Bacon Ranch Dip from the BaconSalt web site for $2.99 a pack! Both Mr. Baconpants and Sean were blown away by the awesome flavor of Bacon Ranch Dip! Unlike other bacon-flavored dips and dressings, Bacon Ranch Dip tasted like MEAT rather than all those fake smoky-flavored dips that lack true BACON flavor! And the amazing fact here is that Bacon Ranch Dip is kosher and vegetarian and contains no pork whatsoever! You need to buy this. RIGHT NOW!
TEN minutes of the show were lost to the sound of the hosts eating Bacon Ranch Dip and Ruffles. While you’re waiting, go get some Ruffles and order the dip. When Mr. Baconpants closed the bowl of dip, I thought Sean was going to kick
his ass and take it back!
Sean did a great segment on non-bacon bacon related news, always a winner, but you’ll need to watch the show for the details of his report! Sodomy was involved.
At the end of the show, Mr. Baconpants brought up the whistle tip to make cars extremely loud. Guys, this has been a problem for many years in California! They say it is so loud it drowns out emergency vehicle sirens and it drives the people
crazy. You can get the DIY exhaust kit at Amazon. What’s up with that?
At the end of the show Sean discussed BK’s big losses created by selling the BK double cheeseburger for $1 to compete with McDonalds even though it’s causing huge losses for the Burger King franchise owners. Sorry, BK!
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