Wallet Pop reports that Coffee Mate, Seamless Web and Starbucks are all offering (separate) variations on the theme, perhaps their way of getting a leg up on the blitz of ads sure to be discussed on Monday.

Coffee Mate‘s Free Flavor Friday promotion for Facebook fans (say that 3 times fast) has been such a success that the company is adding 20,000 bottles to it’s originally planned 100,000 bottle giveaway due to technical difficulties (too many people trying to get in on the deal at once?). You still have a chance, but the giveaway was always planned to end at 11:59pm PST, or once 100,000 people accepted the offer, so click quickly.

Seamless Web, an online food ordering website that serves New York, Boston and Washington, DC restaurants (as well as one of our favorite alternatives to room service in said cities), is offering 350,000 free cups of coffee in partnership with restaurants in each city, and all you have to do is show up. That’s one reason to battle it out with winter weather.

Starbucks is probably the biggest brand name, but their free coffee offer isn’t quite as free as the others.

“Buy any 5-, 6-, 7-, 8- or 12-pack of VIA from a Starbucks or a grocery store and if you don’t like it, return it to Starbucks for a 12-ounce bag of free Starbucks House Blend ground coffee. This offer is valid for VIA purchased between Feb. 2, 2011 and Aug. 31, 2011. The taste test guarantee is good on VIA black coffee, flavored coffee, and iced coffee.” {Wallet Pop}

While a coffee exchange is nice, there’s not much of a risk for Starbucks – whatever your feelings are about the VIA instant coffee, you’ll still be drinking their coffee. Guess that’s one way to make sure the ever more minimalistic logo doesn’t mess with brand recognition in any way.

So click quickly to get your free Coffee Mate bottle, stop in to a participating Seamless Web restaurant – every day if you’d like – to get your free cup of joe, and if you’re still not hopped up enough to assure a fitting Super Bowl super buzz, stop by your local Starbucks to give a trial run to their instant coffee.

It is a unique twist, to say the least

If you love bacon in the morning but want to avoid the unhealthy side effects of eating it for breakfast, you can now enjoy the bacon flavor fat free. How you ask?

Last week, Glamour magazine tweeted that the latest flavored syrup from Torani is bacon, so you can have bacon-flavored coffee or lattes in the morning.

A bottle of the stuff goes for $6.95 on Toraniâ€s Web site, where  it has apparently been sold for a few months now. The site also has maple flavored syrup available, so if you figure out how to drink the combination from a pancake you may be well on your way to having a balanced liquid breakfast. According to Torani’s ½ – 1 oz. of syrup should be used to flavor a 6-8 oz. beverage and they suggest adding bacon flavor to manhattans, milkshakes and bloody marys in addition to coffee. The brand even offers recipes for bacon cocktails, including the Bacon Bourbon Sour, which is made with bacon syrup, lemon juice, bourbon and a garnishing strip of real bacon. {The Consumerist}

Torani claims its bacon-flavored syrup tastes salty, sweet and just like real bacon.

Hey, we didnâ€t say this was a perfect solution to the delicious but oh-so-unhealthy bacon conundrum. Plus, we havenâ€t actually tried bacon-flavored syrup, and it may turn out to be one of those things that sounds disgusting but is actually fantastic.

The Glamour staffer who wrote about the syrup did also mention seeing a café in Seattle that was selling bacon lattes, so maybe bacon-flavored drinks are the next Pumpkin Spice latte and will end up making us look foolish for questioning their tastiness. Maybe.