{"id":17312,"date":"2010-12-15T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T19:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=17312"},"modified":"2010-12-15T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T19:42:26","slug":"the-475-bacon-of-the-month-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/food\/the-475-bacon-of-the-month-club","title":{"rendered":"The $475 Bacon of the Month Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"\"$ <\/a>If there’s one food trend that dominated 2010 it’s bacon, and a few savvy butchers are hoping that you’ll continue replacing your cheese or other gift-of the-month presents with a little bit of pork.<\/p>\n

We’d call the Bacon of the Month clubs crazy, but with everything from bacon-flavored drink syrup<\/a> to bacon chocolate<\/a> (vegetarian, even), they’re probably more savvy than silly.<\/p>\n

So while the “Bacon is Meat Candy” Bacon of the Month Club<\/a> offered by Bacon Freak<\/a> isn’t surprising, we have to say the price is, and certainly hints at a fanbase that goes beyond your casual supermarket enthusiast. For $475.95, you can get 12 months of gourmet bacon delivered directly to your door.<\/p>\n

That’s\u00c2\u00a0a little more than $39 for two packages of gourmet bacon each month. Flavor rubs include cajun, apple cinnamon, jalapeno, honey BBQ, maple, brown sugar, vanilla bourbon, sun dried tomato and pepper – and a free t-shirt. For $80, you can add a Pancake of the Month subscription, and we assume suggestions on which pancake compliments which bacon flavor. As a bonus, if you’re a naked chef the Bacon Freak website advertises that their bacon “doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shrink, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t splatter and when you cook a pound of bacon, you get a pound of bacon. That is why our Bacon Freak Bacon is the only bacon you can fry naked.”<\/p>\n

We won’t go as far as calling bacon and pancakes the new wine and cheese, but creative chefs are finding that bacon is, well, bringing in the bacon. Inc reports<\/a> that Rocco Loosbrock, who actually started the bacon club as a companion to a wine of the month club, found such success with the bacon that it eventually outpaced wine sales. Candied bacon macarons were a best seller for Macaron Parlour<\/a> and we previously reported that Chocomize’s vegetarian bacon<\/a> was one of their most frequently requested ingredients.<\/p>\n

Tasty as it may be, and as much as macarons<\/a> could make us love almost anything, for close to $500 we can think of other things to spend the money on, and chances are they’d leave you looking better naked in the long run anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’d call the Bacon of the Month clubs crazy, but with everything from bacon-flavored drink syrup to bacon chocolate (vegetarian, even), they’re probably more savvy than silly.<\/p>\n